0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/18/2011
Today is going to be a busy day with the UFC on Fox press conference and the NHL TV schedule announcement. I figure now would be a good time to linkage and I hope I don’t get interrupted here at work. The big news that broke late yesterday was DirecTV announcing that it would offer […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/17/2011
Let’s do some linkage on this Wednesday. Trying to do this early instead of late. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who tells us what ESPN has promoted Trent Dilfer among its NFL analysts and dropped Matt Millen although he remains on its college football coverage. Cam Martin of SportsNewser is as confused as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/16/2011
Well, yesterday I was two jobsites. Today, I forgot to bring my computer AC adapter and my phone so for several hours, I was without any communication to the outside world. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but it certainly felt strange not to have connection to the internet or Twitter. Now that I’m back, I can […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/15/2011
Trying to catch up with blogging after being away from the office all day. We have a release from CBS Sports Network announcing its schedule and announcing teams for the 2011 college football season. Names like James Bates, Tim Brandt, Todd Harris, Josh Lewin and Gary Thorne join the network to call games along with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2011
I haven’t been able to provide a Sunday link dump for you in a while so it’s time to provide some while I can. I do have to do a Sunday thoughts column and again, haven’t done one in a while so I hope to get that done for you later today. Too many thoughts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/12/2011
This from BTN, a.k.a. Big Ten Network, the announcing lineup for its football games starting in September. Long gone are the days of Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis. Eric Collins, Tom Hart and Matt Devlin will be your play-by-play men. Chris Martin, Derek Rackley and Glen Mason will be the analysts. Sideline reporters will be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/11/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2011
Any time I put “Quick” in the title, it appears I find more linkage than I set out to. Nothing wrong with that. Again, I ended up being outside of the office for an extended time and it looks like that will happen again tomorrow. Don’t know work is so crazy all of a sudden. […]
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Due to the fact that I had to go in and out of the office five times for various errands and meetings during the day, I was not able to provide linkage. And due to the fact that there are some good stories lingering, I don’t want to leave you without some links. So I’ll […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/8/2011
Increasing its total from 10 to 20 games this season, ESPN 3D, which a total of 21 people across the country can access, has announced its slate of college football contests for the upcoming season. The schedule includes the season opening UNLV at Wisconsin on September 1, Miami at Maryland on September 5, the ACC […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
This past weekend was spent preparing for my sister’s baby shower and then grilling for those in attendance so I was very busy after posting last Friday’s megalinks. My apologies for not being able to blog as I wanted this past weekend, but I do appreciate your patience. Let’s get to the linkage as we […]
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NBC Sports has obtained the rights to the annual Bayou Classic, the great rivalry game between two Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Grambling State and Southern University. And as has been its tradition, NBC will also air the halftime “Battle of the Bands” as Grambling and Southern both have spectacular bands and both always put […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/5/2011
Ok, seeing some good stories on this Friday and it appears that I’m staying in the office today so I can give you a full set and not have to leave for another site. Let’s git ‘er done! We start as always with the Weekend Viewing Picks which are getting busier with each passing weekend […]
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Last year, it seemed College GameDay was based at SEC sites early in the season. I’ll have to check my archives, but it appeared the show was SEC-heavy early on. For the first three weeks of the new season, College GameDay will in Arlington, Texas; Ann Arbor, Michigan and then Tallahassee, Florida. All of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/4/2011
Let’s get the linkage out on this Thursday. The weekend is almost here. Here’s an interesting article and I’m watching to see how it plays out. Eriq Gardner at Hollywood Reporter writes that Comcast is suing DirecTV over “deceptive claims” of free televised NFL games and exploiting the end of the lockout to conduct a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/3/2011
CBS Sports and Showtime have teamed up once already for the Manny Pacquaio-Sugar Shane Mosley fight earlier this year. They’re going to team up again for a two hour docudrama on the Army-Navy rivalry. Showtime will air a preview of the program the night before Thanksgiving, premiere the docudrama on December 21. CBS will air […]
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Was out of the office again earlier today so I’m getting to these rather late. Let’s look at what we have today. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says the new CBS Sports/Showtime documentary on this year’s Army-Navy football game will have touches of reality TV. Mike McCarthy of USA Today notes that TNT’s Shaquille O’Neal and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2011
Lots of stuff coming out today. Rebranding news galore as we found out that Versus will undergo a name change on January 2, 2012. Then there’s Sporting News Radio changing its name to Yahoo! Sports Radio as of today. And Westwood One Radio has merged with Dial-Global today. Crazy day. Let’s do some linkage and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/31/2011
Ok, I have some free time to do some linkage now. I was hoping to get this posted in the morning, but recently, weekends have become busier than my workweek. I really don’t understand how this happened. However, with the next few hours free, I should be able to give you some good posts here. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2011
I’m hoping to get this entire Megalink session finished in one sitting. It’s been a crazy day thus far. Of course, all of your weekend sport and entertainment programming are featured in the Weekend Viewing Picks. Let’s get to the linkage now. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today speaks with noted baseball announcing author Curt […]
