Merry Christmas! Happy to provide you with the nominees for this year’s NFL TV Awards. Last year’s nominees ended up this way. And later, this was the result for the 2011 season. Let’s take a look at the nominees in...
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Category: Brad Nessler
ESPN has sent its schedule for the college football bowls as well as the Bowl Championship Series. In addition, we have the announcing assignments for all of the games on the ESPN platforms. Most of the games will air on...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from the SEC Championship, Atlanta, GA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m. College Football Countdown —...
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This week marks for all intents and purposes, the final week of conference play in college football. There are conference championships in the ACC, Big Ten, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12 and SEC. ESPN platforms will carry four of them either through...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Friday, November 23 Pregame & Studio Shows Best of College Football 2012 — CBS, 1:30 p.m. Fox College Football Saturday — Fox, 3 p.m. 11 a.m. Syracuse at Temple — ESPN2 (Tom Hart/John Congemi)...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Eugene, OR — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football Uncut:...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live on board the USS San Diego — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon...
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Let’s take a look at the announcers ESPN will utilize for college basketball this season. Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale remain the top team as they’ll major ACC and Saturday primetime games together. Dave O’Brien gets an upgrade as he’ll...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Baton Rouge, LA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30...
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Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Norman, OK — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. Big Ten Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Fox College Football Preview Show — Fox Sports Net,...
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Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Gainesville, FL — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football Today —...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from South Bend, IN — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Columbia, SC — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m....
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In its effort to show that people really, really, really like working at ESPN, the Alleged Worldwide Leader has issued this press release announcing that six of its core play-by-play men have signed new contracts. And they include some familiar...
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Time to hand out the 5th edition of the Fang’s Bites NFL TV Awards. On Christmas Day, I provided the list of nominees for this year’s edition. Now, with the regular season over, let’s hand out the hardware for the...
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Let’s get to the megalinks today. Lots to get to including some interesting news that is breaking today. First, the Weekend Viewing Picks are back after a week’s absence. Check out what sports and entertainment viewing recommendations I’ve made. Now...
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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...
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Yes, Thursday Night Football’s sixth season kicks off on NFL Network this week with another 8 game schedule. It begins with a tasty AFC West matchup between old American Football League rivals Oakland and San Diego at the Stadium Formerly...
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I thought this pair would be tapped by ESPN to call the 2nd game of the Monday Night Football doubleheader this season as they worked Chargers-Chiefs last year. And Nessler’s performance last year most likely led to NFL Network tapping...
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After it was announced that Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock would the new Thursday Night Football announcing team starting this season, NFL Network held a conference call with the two men and Mark Quenzel, the Senior Vice President of Programming...
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05May
Ok starting the linkage off late again today, but I hope get a full set in before leaving work later. Sports Business Daily notes some shuffling of personnel with the NFL TV partners. Preston Bounds of Sports Business Daily talks...
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The upheaval in the NFL Network Thursday Night Football booth has been well documented. Now that Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock are officially the new announcing team, we look at the people NFL Network have assembled over the years. Let’s...
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05May
I sent an e-mail to NFL Network seeking confirmation of Richard Deitsch’s story in SI.com about Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock coming into the Thursday Night Football booth, but when you get a press release, you can’t get better confirmation...
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Well, this is certainly a surprise. The last we heard about the NFL Network Thursday Night Football team was that Mike Mayock would replace Joe Theismann and Matt Millen and he would be teamed with either incumbent play-by-play man Bob...
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