0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2011
On Saturday, HBO will carry two fights as part of its World Championship Boxing card. BRIGHT YOUNG STARS TAKE THE SPOTLIGHT IN THE HBO SPORTS® DOUBLEHEADER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®: ANDRE BERTO VS. VICTOR ORTIZ AND AMIR KHAN VS. PAUL MCCLOSKEY,PRESENTED SATURDAY, APRIL 16 ON HBO HBO Sports spotlights some of the sweet science’s brightest young […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/1/2011
I’m going to try to post some of the Friday megalinks. This won’t be an entire post. Unless something happens, I should be able to get most of them in. Of course, you can find the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and primetime programs. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/24/2011
This Saturday, HBO’s Boxing After Dark program returns to the airwaves this Saturday. We learned earlier this week that former Showtime ShoBox announcer Nick Charles will call the first fight on the card. You may know that Nick is suffering from cancer and this will most likely be the last fight on which he will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/15/2011
Over the weekend, I gave you a press release previewing what you’ll see on tonight’s Real Sports. Now, I have some clips from the three new segments on the show. Last night, we received a partial transcript of Jon Frankel’s profile of a reflective Mike Tyson. Let’s take a look at a brief clip of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/13/2011
Coming up in March, Showtime’s boxing reality series, Fight Camp 360 will focus on the Manny Pacquaio-Shane Mosley fight. If you think this is similar to HBO’s 24/7 series, you would be correct. Showtime premiered the series back in 2009 and has used it for selected fights on the network. This will be a four […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Coming this Friday, the very first 3-D TV boxing match to be aired in the United States. This Friday, ESPN 3D will take ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights and air the entire card live. We have the announcement from ESPN and what you’ll see if you’re one of the 65 people who own a 3-D TV […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/11/2011
These videos are from January when the fight for the British Flyweight Title took place. It was between boxers Usman Ahmed and Ashley Sexton. This was pretty interesting for the entertaining long entrance that Ahmed took getting into the ring and the subsequent quick exit he took after Sexton knocked him out just two minutes […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/10/2011
Let’s do some links for you on this Thursday. I hope to be able to do a bit more in the later part of the week unlike previous weeks where the links stop on Wednesday. Plenty of stuff to go over. Michael Hiestand has a couple of articles on CBS/Turner changing the way we’ll watch […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/26/2011
In a big upset, corporate siblings Showtime and CBS have lured boxer Manny Pacquaio away from HBO and have signed the fighter’s next bout against “Sugar” Shane Mosely in May. The fight will be held in Las Vegas on May 7. It marks the first time that Showtime will have a Pacquaio fight. Showtime Pay […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/24/2011
As I continue to be in a holding pattern on whether this site will stay on its current server or have to make another move, I’ll keep doing what I do and that’s provide the best in sports media information to you. Let’s do your links while I can. Starting with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/16/2010
Since I had to cut the Tuesday links short, I’m going to add some linkage this evening. After I finished the links, the big story was the revelation from the Sports Media & Technology Conference in New York today that the combined CBS/Turner team for the 2011 NCAA Tournament will include TNT’s NBA announcers including […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/11/2010
HBO’s series on the preparation for the Manny Pacquaio/Antonio Margarito fight will end on Friday with the fight on pay per view on Saturday. We have a preview of the final installment of 24/7 Pacquaio/Margarito. 24/7 PACQUIAO/MARGARITO NOV. 12 EPISODE Episode #4 (series finale) Debut: FRIDAY, NOV. 12 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) Other HBO playdates: Nov. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/7/2010
Tonight after NFL coverage, CBS News’ venerable 60 Minutes will have a story on Philippine boxing champion Manny Pacquaio. And while much of the story will focus on Pacquaio’s career, some of it will look at his future as many Filipinos hope he will enter the political arena once Manny is all done with boxing. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2010
Today through Saturday, I’ll be scarce on the blog. My sister is getting married and I’m not going to be blogging much. In fact, I won’t blogging at all. The Viewing Picks and the posts you’ll see for the next three days have been done ahead of time. But I don’t want to lose you […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/15/2010
Today ended up being one of the busiest weekend days I’ve experienced this year. And they say the weekend is supposed to be for rest. To that I say bullshit! I’ve been driving all over Rhode Island today and it’s kept me from turning on my computer until after 6 p.m. ET. I’m not happy […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2010
Dealing with work and trying to finish up some stuff, but while I have a break, let’s do the linkage for you. First, USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at the ratings from various events from the weekend. Mike also writes about Fox NFL Sunday analyst Jimmy Johnson being a contestant on CBS’ Survivor: Nicaragua this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/8/2010
If you want to the Wladimir Klitschko-Samuel Peter fight live, you’re going to have to watch on your computer as ESPN3.com will carry it. It’ll be seen on regular TV on delay. And ESPN is going have Brian Kenny and Teddy Atlas call the fight in the ESPN studios off a monitor. How great is […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/27/2010
Shuffling between offices again today and I could be called back to the home office so I’m trying to squeeze linkage in right now. Last night, I appealed for sports media questions and comments and I still would more queries before doing a mailbag post. As I said in the original post, if you have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2010
Back to work for most of us today. Let me provide links for you. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who breaks news in his Monday column. He says Joe Theismann who refused to work college football games for ESPN when he was removed from Monday Night Football now willing to work Notre Dame […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2010
Been busy once again today so I’m going to give you some linkage now and perhaps some linkage tonight. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the ratings from selected events from the weekend. Glen Dickson of Broadcasting & Cable writes that Verizon FIOS will pick up two Yankees games produced in 3-D that will […]
