0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2011
With this being Patriots Day in Massachusetts and Maine, it’s time to give some links. It’s a day off for some in Massachusetts and Boston has the Marathon plus the 11 a.m. Red Sox game. Both of which are traditions I have come to enjoy. Some interesting links today. We start with John Ourand and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2011
Time for the Sunday links. Quite a few to get to. Dennis Dodd from CBSSports.com looks at the increasing rights fees for college football. Erick Smith of USA Today says the University of Miami is in talks with ESPN about a “Hard Knocks”-type reality show for its football team. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
This is being posted later than normal, but I didn’t want to omit my duties of providing the Sunday thoughts. I’m trying to avoid doing so because I’m in denial over the following thoughts over two sites. I feel if I don’t write the following paragraphs, maybe they’ll still be around. Anyway, here’s what I […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/16/2011
I got up early this morning (not that you care) and it now enables me to do some links for you. Some good stuff out today. First USA Today’s Mike McCarthy, we learn that Joe Theismann claims he has not been told about any changes to the NFL Network Thursday Night Football booth. Earlier this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2011
Last week, I could not do the megalinks as I was traveling in between two offices. Yesterday, I seemed to get that out of the way so it appears that I’m free to do the megalinks today. I hope I can give you a full set. As usual, there’s a full set of Weekend Viewing […]
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Spring football has become a big deal for college football rightsholders, ESPN in particular. The NBC Sports Group is now taking part as Versus will air the 82nd annual Notre Dame Blue-Gold game. It’ll mark the first time the game has ever been televised. And NBC’s Notre Dame Football announcing team, Tom Hammond and Mike […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/13/2011
This was originally reported by Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand and Michael Smith last month. Now, it’s official. Fox Sports and the Big 12 Conference have agreed upon a new 13 year cable rights deal that includes televising up to 40 football games a year and it now encompasses Olympic sports. This will not affect […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/12/2011
I was trying to post links last night and was making really good progress when, you guessed it, I fell asleep with the computer on again. That’s not good. So I’ll combine the full set of links that I found last night with this edition so you have a pretty good set of stories to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/10/2011
After not being able to bring you the Friday megalinks or even Saturday linkage, I have some time to provide the Sunday linkage. Some good stuff here and don’t forget to read my Sunday thoughts. USA Today’s Mike McCarthy breaks news that former co-host of Versus’ The Daily Line, Jenn Sterger will give her first […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2011
Ok, let’s do the Wednesday linkage. Quite a few things to get to. We begin with Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal who when we last saw him during the World Series last October, was wearing a bowtie despite his protests to management. Well, we find that Ken will continue wearing a bowtie this season, but rather […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2011
Been busy today for no particular reason. Well, work is a very good reason, but it just seems to be piling up today. We give you the links while we still can. Michael Hiestand from USA Today starts us off and he wonders if the Butler-VCU matchup in the NCAA Tournament Final Four® Cinderella matchup […]
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This just in from the Fox Networks, FX in particular, the cable home to Fox will carry a 13 game college football schedule starting this fall. The games will consist of Big 12, Conference USA and Pac 12 games. All games will be produced by Fox Sports and announcers will be assigned at a later […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2011
Let’s provide some links on this Sunday. Original plans to go to work have been scrapped leaving me free to do links which is good for you. I certainly hope you had a chance to read my Sunday thoughts which I hope to make a weekly feature here at Fang’s Bites. Here are the links. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2011
When you combine the Sports Emmy Award nominations for ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN.com, the sports behemoth has a massive 52 nods. It doesn’t mean that they’ll win them all, but that’s a very big number. In case you’re wondering, ESPN has 22 nominations, ABC with 13, ESPN2 has 9, and both […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/8/2011
Let’s bring you some linkage before my plate gets too full today. Lots of things to go over. First, this story broke last night and we’re all hoping for the best for NFL Films President Steve Sabol who suffered a seizure Saturday night while in Kansas City. Greg Rosenthal of Pro Football Talk says Sabol […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/7/2011
Ok, time to get cracking on the linkage. Haven’t done any since Thursday and the weekend was busy for me as I was out of the house for most of Saturday and Sunday so it didn’t make for conducive blogging conditions. We have a lot of stuff to get to today and a couple of […]
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The corporate synergy continues on the NBC Sports-run Versus. On March 17, also known as St. Patrick’s Day, Versus will air three classic Notre Dame games that had first aired on NBC. Give credit to NBC as one game is also a loss for the Fighting Irish, but was a truly classic game. Two games […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/2/2011
Here are some Wednesday links today. Maury Brown from the Biz of Sports Network writes in Forbes about a Federal judge ruling in favor of the NFL Players Association in its fight to prevent the league’s owners from taking TV rights fees as lockout insurance. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says ESPN will be unveiling a […]
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Just coming out today, a joint Sports Illustrated/CBS News investigation into the preseason college football Top 25 finds that 1 in every 14 player has been arrested and of those, nearly 40% were for serious offenses. That’s pretty alarming. And of the schools that recruited players, only two of the Top 25 bothered to conduct […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/26/2011
This coming from ESPN, its Big East Football schedule on its family of networks. Overall, 14 games spread over the Mothership, ESPN2 and ABC. Here’s the sked. ESPN Announces 14 BIG EAST College Football Telecasts for 2011 ESPN announced 14 of its BIG EAST Conference college football selections for the 2011 season, including three Thursday […]
