0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/24/2013
I haven’t done Sunday links in a very long while. It seems as if part of my weekends have been planned for me behind my back for almost three years straight. Finally glad to be able to do links on a weekend. Charlie White at Mashable talks about NASCAR taking down fan videos of the horrific […]
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Saturday was certainly the interesting day in sports with two sports outside of the major four dominating headlines. Let’s go over them in bullet form. In what normally is the start of NASCAR’s Nationwide Series became the sports and also news story of the first part of Saturday when a crash at Drive4COPD at Daytona […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2013
When do you bury news? On the weekend! When do the networks put out terse statements on lost sports properties? Either late at night or on the weekends, like 3:19 p.m. ET on Saturday. NBC has conceded losing the Big East Conference to ESPN which matched the Peacock’s offer this week. There was a slight […]
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Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook. I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as possible here. Interesting story from The Big Lead. The daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET SportsCenter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2013
Saturday, February 23 Boxing Showtime Boxing IBF Junior Middleweight Championship: Cornelius Bundrage vs. Ishe Smith — Showtime, 9 p.m. NBC Fight Night Heavyweights: Vyacheslav Glazkov vs. Malik Scott — NBC Sports Network, 10:30 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey New Hampshire at Vermont — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. Minnesota-Duluth at Minnesota — Big Ten Network, […]
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Just a half-year after helping to launch the Sports on Earth site, Joe Posnanski has left the joint venture between MLB and USA Today Sports to join the NBC Sports Group and become its national columnist. Previously, Posnanski has worked for Sports Illustrated, the Kansas City Star and the Cincinnati Post. He’ll have a weekly […]
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Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 22 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Upsets — CBS, 1 p.m. 75 Years of NCAA March Madness: […]
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College Basketball Men’s North Dakota State at Akron — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Saint Louis at Butler — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Harvard at Brown — WNAC 64.2, 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Long Beach State — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Florida State at Duke — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/Detroit Plus/South/Tennessee/West/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic), 6:30 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2013
From John Ourand in today’s Sports Business Daily, ESPN has matched NBC’s offer to air Big East football and basketball. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Big East came to an agreement with NBC Sports Network, a deal with more $20 million annually over six years. Today was the deadline for ESPN to […]
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Let’s provide a few items that need to be recognized on this busy Thursday in sports. Updated the Viewing Picks to include Entertainment, MMA, NASCAR and the revised start time for the WGC Match Play Championships. I work over an hour compiling the viewing picks for you, so peruse them and let me know that […]
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College Basketball Men’s LaSalle at Temple — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Cincinnati at UConn — ESPN, 7 p.m. Georgia at Arkansas — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Drexel at Delaware — NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m. Penn State at Illinois — Big Ten Network, 8:15 p.m. Duke at Virginia Tech — ESPN, 9 p.m. Cal at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2013
I have the Spring Training TV schedules for four MLB teams. These are on Comcast SportsNet Chicago, NESN and YES. Let’s take a look at what we have. I’ll go in alphabetical order by teams. First, the Boston Red Sox will have 14 Spring Training games aired on NESN a.k.a. New England Sports Network. They’ll […]
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ESPN has sent this announcement regarding its Spring Training schedule. Overall, you’ll have eight games with three appearances by the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies, two each by the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. Most of the games will be called by the revamped Sunday Night Baseball team of […]
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Remember last year when Turner took over March Madness Live and it was so complicated to authenticate to get the free streaming of the NCAA Tournament? And it got to the point where some gave up while others got so frustrated, they decided to pay the $3.99 fee even though they could have watched for […]
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Starting at noon, the WGC Match Play Championships will tee off from the Dove Mountain Resort in Marana, AZ. Golf Channel and NBC Sports will team up to air more than 60 hours of coverage through Sunday. This includes 29 hours of live tournament action. And with weather expected to have an impact on play, […]
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College Basketball Men’s UMass at St. Bonaventure — A-10 Network, 7 p.m. DePaul at Georgetown — Big East Network, 7 p.m. South Florida at St. John’s — Big East Network, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Ohio State — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m. James Madison at Northeastern — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/New England)/The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. […]
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In lieu of linkage which has been sorely lacking, my sincere apologies, I give a sports media notebook which includes some links for you. Life has gotten in the way and you’ve responded by not visiting the site. It tells me you want fresh content so I’ll do my best to provide that to you […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2013
Tonight, Bryant Gumbel talked about the downfall of another sports icon, Oscar Pistorius. BRYANT GUMBEL CLOSING COMMENTARY REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL EPISODE #191 AIRS TONIGHT (2/19) @ 10:00 PM ET/PT “Finally tonight, as last week’s tragic shooting in South Africa would suggest, the business of myth-making in sports isn’t going very well this year. […]
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Golf Channel’s successful reality show, Big Break will head to Mexico for its 19th season. It will feature six men and six women with PGA and LPGA Tour exemptions on the line. In addition, LPGA Tour star Lorena Ochoa will take part in one of the episodes and it will be her tournament which will […]
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I believe this is the first time that a successful documentary has ever had a spinoff. ESPN Films is creating a whole new series for storytelling, this time told by women about women called “Nine for IX” as in nine films for Title IX, the groundbreaking law that allowed equality for women in collegiate sports. […]
