0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2012
On this day when many of you head back to work after the lazy holiday season, let’s provide some links as we get into the New Year. I’m still saddened today by the passing of Turner Sports and PGA.com essayist Jim Huber. Reading the tributes on Twitter from those who knew him and those who […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/8/2011
Talking about his alma mater, Penn State and his coaches Joe Paterno along with former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, Matt Millen got emotional and broke down on the set of ESPN’s SportsCenter today. Discussing the alleged incidents regarding Sandusky and several young boys, Millen broke down and tried to fight back tears while being interviewed […]
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 7/20/2011
With so many college football games not just on Saturdays, but on Thursdays, Fridays and sometimes even Tuesdays, ESPN needs a lot of announcing teams on its networks. You have 22 announcing teams that span ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN 3D, ESPN Radio, ESPN Regional Television, Big East Network and SEC Network. That’s a lot […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2011
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 about Brad Nessler saying his college football schedule with ESPN/ABC won’t be affected by his […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
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 hope that this team can remain in place through the end of the current NFL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/26/2011
Got to work early so I figure that I’ll do linkage early and then do some what I have to do at the office. Let’s begin with a look at some of the ratings from the weekend via USA Today’s Michael Hiestand. Michael notes that the Cam Newton saga at the NFL Draft could bring […]
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/14/2011
Here’s how NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football announcing teams have looked since 2006: 2006 – Bryant Gumbel/Cris Collinsworth 2007 – Bryant Gumbel/Cris Collinsworth 2008 – Bob Papa/Cris Collinsworth 2009 – Bob Papa/Matt Millen 2010 – Bob Papa/Matt Millen/Joe Theismann/Alex Flanagan 2011 – Gus Johnson/Mike Mayock (speculated, not confirmed) You can see there hasn’t been much […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
This is what happens when I’m out of the office, news breaks and I need someone to point me in the right direction. Coming from the great Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated, NFL Network has apparently decided to do away with the Joe Theismann/Matt Millen analyst combo and chucked them in favor of one of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/29/2011
Thanks to the server host getting a Denial of Service attack last night, Fang’s Bites has been down for most of the day. Not happy for not being able to blog for most of the day, although I’m back up for now. I apologize for the inconvenience. I’ll give you linkage now and hope you’ll […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/21/2010
Let’s do some linkage on this Sunday. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News mentions that Tennis Channel has begun coverage of the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals this week. Stu Hackel of Sports Illustrated looks at the New York Islanders’ silly ban of blogger Chris Botta. Doug Farrar of Yahoo’s Shutdown Corner blog says NFL Network’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/12/2010
Since I’ll be away from any wireless technology this afternoon, I’m doing the megalinks now and will try to get as many as I can in before leaving the office for the day. Let’s start now and I’ll provide some links I could not get to over the last couple of days. National USA Today’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
NFL Network returned Thursday with the 4th incarnation of its announcing team in five seasons. And to be honest, the official TV network of the National Football League which has done tremendously in producing original programming such as America’s Game, Top 100: NFL’s Greatest Players, NFL Game of the Week, NFL Replay, NFL Total Access, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2010
Thursday Night Football on NFL Network returns this week with a matchup of 6-2 teams, the Atlanta Falcons hosting the Baltimore Ravens. Can’t ask for a better way to premiere an 8 game package of games. However, it also means the debut of motormouth analyst Joe Theismann who never passed the opportunity to talk into […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/25/2010
It’s already Week 9 in the college football season. Time is just flying by. The college football week begins on Tuesday for ESPN’s family of networks. Plus as we know, College Gameday will be heading to SoCal for the Oregon-USC game which will be played in primetime on ABC. Once again, ESPN tortures the state […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2010
It was a three day weekend for most of you. It wasn’t for me as I worked all three days, but you don’t want to hear my complaints, you want to see the linkage so I’ll do that. Plenty of stuff to get to. Sean Leahy of USA Today surveys all 32 NFL teams and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2010
Since NFL Network started airing live games in 2006, its broadcast booth has been a bastion of inconsistency. Since Bryant Gumbel left in 2007, there have been changes every year. Let’s take a look at the combinations. 2006 – Bryant Gumbel & Cris Collinsworth2007 – Bryant Gumbel & Cris Collinsworth 2008 – Bob Papa & […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/16/2009
Ok, now that I have the Joe Buck Live links out of the way, let’s get to the other sports media links of the day. Ray Glier of USA Today has a very nice story on a sightless announcer who does the Spanish language broadcasts for the Tampa Bay Rays. Paul Sanford of the Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2009
After hemming and hawing over how to organize the links today, I’ve decided I’m going to do a post based on just sports media links, then one on reaction to Blogs With Balls. I know many of the readers are probably sick of my posts on the conference, but it was a good event to […]
