This Saturday, I’ll Have Another will attempt to become the first horse to win The Triple Crown since Seattle Slew achieved the feat in 1978. He’ll run in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. NBC Sports Group will be all over...
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Category: Belmont Stakes
It’s been a busy day for me as I’ve been working on the story on NBC approving plans for a Stanley Cup Final Viewing Party at TD Garden in Boston. Amazing how things fall into place on a story like...
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I thought this weekend would be quiet and I would be able to do some good blogging like Saturday and Sunday linkage, some Sunday thoughts and a few press releases thrown in, but it turned out to be very busy....
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The race may not have had a Triple Crown candidate, but it did feature the champions from this year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Winning the race was a 24-1 longshot, Ruler on Ice. The race was quite exciting to...
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With no Triple Crown winner assured for this year, NBC is trying to make the Belmont a showdown between Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford. Just watch another horse take the race giving us three different...
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Got this press release yesterday, but with everything going on, I did not have time to post it, but now I have some time. This is from The Group talking about Kentucky Derby coverage for next week. Some 14 hours...
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This comes as surprising news as legendary horse racing announcer Tom Durkin has left NBC as the Voice of the Triple Crown. When NBC took over the Triple Crown from ABC in 2001, Durkin did the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes...
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Starting on the first Saturday in May, which falls on May 7 this year, and running through June 11, Sirius XM will carry all three races of this year’s Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby on the aforementioned May 7, the...
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Time for linkage now. Jun Yang at Bloomberg Businessweek reports that YouTube is in talks with the NBA and NHL to stream live games. Now that would be cool if it happens, but I’m skeptical that it will. At MediaPost,...
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CNBC’s Darren Rovell had this earlier today, that the NBC Sports Group was re-obtaining the rights to the entire Triple Crown after airing 2/3 of the pie for the past five years. Now, the puzzle is complete once again. The...
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This comes from CNBC’s Darren Rovell, the NBC Sports Group will announce today that it has secured the rights to all three races of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. In October...
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16Feb
Ok, time for some links on this Wednesday. Let’s provide some for you while I can. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that former CBS college basketball analyst Billy Packer is not enthused about the new TV arrangement for the...
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08Jun
Yesterday, I just wasn’t in the mood to blog after putting up a few press releases. It’s time to do some blogging now because it’s important that you get linkage and fresh material as much as possible. Don’t want to...
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We won’t have a Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year. It’s been something we’ve been saying since 1978, but with different winners in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, there’s not much interest in the Belmont which is...
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I’m back from New York after attending the Blogs With Balls conference. Actually, I got back around midnight, but I was so tired, I hit the bed and didn’t get up until after 9:30 this morning. I updated Twitter from...
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09Jun
Let’s do links for you now. I may have to leave early so I’ll do what I can for now. Starting with Michael Smith of the Sports Business Journal, he writes that TNT made a little “dig” in its NASCAR...
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06Jun
I’ve finished some unpacking, sent some reports and invoices out. Now I can do some links before I leave and enjoy the rest of the day. Breaking news from the Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand and Eric Fisher… They report...
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13Jun
It’s Friday and we have plenty of media links to give you. But before we get to the links, let’s go over the sporting weekend. Weekend Viewing PicksThe weekend will be dominated by the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, Game...
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Nice to have a computer to blog at home so I can provide with some more links. News about the sports media never seems to rest in this 24/7 information age so I’ll give you a quick update before I...
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10Jun
I’ll give you a few more links tonight before calling it a night. First, Ken McMillan of the Times Herald-Record (NY) gives a remembrance of Jim McKay in his blog. Ray Frager of the Baltimore Sun writes that McKay’s former...
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09Jun
On this back to work Monday, we have a few more tributes for Jim McKay who died Saturday in Maryland. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand writes that McKay spanned several eras in his career. Newsday’s Neil Best is amazed that in...
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08Jun
Now that I have my new computer, I can provide you with some weekend stuff that I had been providing before my old battlestation spit the bit. Let me give you some links now. Also, I’ll do the Week Ahead,...
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Well, after seeing my sister graduate yesterday, I’m back blogging today. Yes, I bought a new computer and I’ll be back on a regular blogging schedule very soon. I don’t want to make guarantees, but constant visitors can rest assured...
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