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Time For Some Thursday Links

Let’s give you some linkage on this Thursday. We begin with Fox NFL rules analyst Mike Pereira who doesn’t mince words on ESPN’s Jon Gruden. Bob’s Blitz reacts to Pereira’s strong post. Jill Goldsmith of Variety says the clock is ticking for MSG Network and Time Warner Cable to hash out a new carriage agreement. […]

The 5th Annual Fang’s Bites College Football TV Awards

It’s time for me to bring back the annual College Football TV Awards. I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. Because of my schedule over the last week, I have not been able to bring it to you until now. Thanks for your patience. Let’s get this started. The College GameDay Award for […]

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 14, 12/03/11, All Times Eastern

Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from the SEC Championship, Atlanta, GA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. ACC Championship, Charlotte, NC Virginia Tech vs. Clemson — ESPN/ESPN 3D, 8 p.m. Big Ten Championship, Indianapolis, IN Wisconsin vs. Michigan State — Fox, 8 p.m. Conference USA Championship, Houston, TX Southern Mississippi at […]

Fox Sports Gets Ready For College Football Conference Championship Weekend

Fox Sports gets some college football to make for a busy weekend. The Pac-12 Championship airs on Friday night from Eugene, Oregon as the UCLA Bruins take on the Oregon Ducks in the first-ever championship game for the Pac-12. Then there’s the inaugural Big Ten Championship on Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis between […]

Fox Sports College Football Games For Week 14

Fox has two conference championship games on consecutive nights, the Pac-12 Championship and Big Ten Championship, Friday and Saturday. Fox Sports Net also has one game and that will end Fox’s college football coverage for the season. Overall, it’s been great having Gus Johnson calling college football, although the quality of games weren’t great, quite […]

ESPN Family of Networks College Basketball Games For Week 4

ESPN’s college basketball schedule is ramping up and this week, it’ll have two interconference challenges, the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in the early part of this week and then the Big East/SEC Challenge in the second half. You want the skinny on the college basketball games for this week? Of course you do. Let’s take a […]

Some Monday Morning Sports Media Thoughts

While I’m away from a computer this morning, I provide these thoughts to you so you have some fresh material here. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving weekend. As usual, I’ll go in bullet form. We’re three games into NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football schedule and the duo of Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock […]

Fox Sports All Over Inaugural Pac-12 & Big Ten Championships

Next weekend, Fox Sports will air the inaugural Pac-12 and Big Ten Football Championships and both games will be called by the same broadcast team on successive nights. The College Football on FX team Gus Johnson, Charles Johnson and sideline analyst Tim Brewster will first call the Pac-12 Championship on either the campus of Stanford […]

Back For Monday’s Linkage

After not being able to provide linkage for a few days, let’s get back to it. I probably won’t be able to do the links as I have to undergo a medical procedure. Nothing serious. I should be back on Wednesday. Let’s do your links. Sports Business Daily looks over the reviews of ESPN’s handling […]

ESPN’s College Basketball Announcing Teams

We have the ESPN college basketball announcing teams for the 2011-12 season. Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale will be the top announcing team. Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas and Bill Raftery return to call Big East games on Big Mondays. Brent Musburger and Bob Knight are back to do the Big 12 portion of Big Monday. […]

Shoveling Through The Monday Links

Let’s do some links on this Monday. Some good stuff to get to. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that CBS’ Bill Cowher may make broadcasting a true second career after shooting down another coaching rumor. At Fox Sports, Brian Lowry feels for the most part, Fox got the job done during the World Series. […]

ESPN Announces 2011-12 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Schedule

This in from ESPN, its schedule for Big Ten men’s basketball. For the first time, ESPNU will air Big Ten Conference games. Overall, the ESPN family will get 36 conference games. ESPN will mostly air the games on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday schedule on its various platforms. Among the highlights of the schedule, ESPN […]

Sirius XM Signs Contracts With 11 College Conferences For Live Sports Action

Through its contracts with IMG College and Learfield Sports, Sirius XM will be able to bring subscribers exclusive game broadcasts featuring some of the nation’s biggest conferences including the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, SEC, Pac-12 and WAC. The contracts will not only include football and basketball games, but also coaches […]

The Recovering After Irene Links

Yesterday at 8:30 a.m., I lost power at my house and as of this post, I still don’t have it. The northern part of my town has power, but I live in the southern part and there’s nothing. That’s not good. And RI did not get hit that hard by Irene so I don’t know […]

Fox Sports Announces 2011-12 College Football Schedule

This has been a rather hellish day as I’ve been to two jobsites and tomorrow will probably be the same so blogging will be sparse. Gah! Anyway, here’s a press release from Fox Sports announcing its college football schedule on Fox, FX, Fox Sports Net and Fox College Sports. I admit I haven’t proofread this […]

Going For Some Monday Linkage

Let’s do the linkage on this busy Monday where it appears the NFL will be back this week as the league and the NFL Players Association appear to have come together on a collective bargaining agreement that would last 10 years with no opt-out. We’re just waiting official word on everything. I’ll provide linkage until […]

Bringing Back The Linkage

Even though I didn’t links on Wednesday, it feels I haven’t done them in ages. You’re owed a chunk of them. Here goes. Nathan Vardi of Forbes reports that ESPN basketball writer Chris Sheridan is suing New York Post basketball chameleon Peter Vecsey for libel. Interesting. Thanks to The Big Lead for the link. David […]

CBS Sports Renews Agreement With Big Ten For Basketball Games

CBS Sports sent this announcement about a new agreement with the Big Ten Conference for basketball games. It starts with the upcoming season and will last through the 2016-17 season, so it’s a six year agreement. This includes the semifinals and finals of the Big Ten Tournament which CBS has had the rights to since […]

Back to the Linkage Grind Edition

Ok, now that the Olympics bidding is over until the next round sometime later this decade, I can focus on other sports media stories and there are quite a few of them now. The Hollywood Reporter notes that embattled cyclist Lance Armstrong has taken down his anti-60 Minutes website stating its report on his alleged […]

ESPN Announces Additional Big Ten Football Game Windows

ESPN has announced the addition of seven more Big Ten football games to its schedule. These games will be seen Saturday afternoons either on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. The schedule and selections are below. Additional 2011 Big Ten College Football Telecasts Selected ESPN has selected seven additional Big Ten Conference college football games for Saturday […]

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