0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2012
CBS Sports is that organization that just keeps chugging along. It was in a very bleak period from 1994-1998 when it lost the NFL, no NBA, was outbid for the NHL and seemed to heading in downward spiral. But since Sean McManus came on board as its President and now Chairman, the division not only […]
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We have the nominations, all 170 in 33 different categories, for the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They just came out today. There are some surprises like massive hockey charlatan Pierre McGuire nominated in the Sports Reporter category and for some really strange reason, Skippy Bayless of ESPN2’s First Take was nominated for Best Studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2012
For the last few weeks, we’ve been having issues with the server and some of you have complained to me. Suffice to say that I hope to have this fixed very soon. I will keep you apprised of the situation. In the meantime, thanks for your patience on the matter. To the links. We begin […]
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We know that Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg will be headed to Atlanta to call the overall number one seed of the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky and the compelling South Regional semifinal between UK and Indiana. While Clark won’t be able to call his son, Nick playing for Ohio in the Midwest Regional in St. Louis […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/18/2012
The news is good for CBS/Turner on two fronts. While there were no upsets on Saturday unlike Friday, ratings were up for the NCAA Tournament by 3% from last year. Yesterday’s rating registered a 6.1, up from a 5.9 last year. In addition, the Tournament averaged 9.3 million viewers which was even with last year. […]
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While I have a moment, let’s provide some rare Sunday links. The lovely Nicole Auerbach of USA Today notes that ESPN’s Bob Knight won’t mention Kentucky by name on the air. ESPN allows Knight to wear sweaters on the air instead of a suit and tie and now this. I don’t understand it. The Associated […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/17/2012
The press release is in. We have the tip times, networks and announcing assignments for the NCAA Tournament for the third round action on Sunday. CBS will have the first three games starting at 12:15 p.m. ET with Georgetown vs. North Carolina State from Columbus, OH. That will be followed by Michigan State-Saint Louis at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/16/2012
Let’s do some megalinks on this Friday. My apologies for the lack of posts yesterday. The site was swamped with people linking to my post on How to Avoid Paying the $3.99 Fee For March Madness Live and it was down for most of the day. We seem to be ok today, although the site […]
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Saturday, March 17 Men’s National Invitational Tournament Second Round UMass at Seton Hall — ESPN,11 a.m. NCAA Tournament Third Round East Region Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA Announcers: CBS/Turner — Kevin Harlan/Len Elmore/Reggie Miller/Marty Snider (sidelines); Dial Global Radio — Scott Graham/Kevin Grevey #1 Syracuse vs. Kansas State — CBS, 12:15 p.m. #2 Ohio State […]
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Ok, it’s late, but we have the tip times and the announcing assignments for Saturday’s Third Round games in the NCAA Tournament. CBS has its traditional Saturday quadruple header. TBS and TNT will both have two games apiece. truTV won’t have a game on Saturday, but will have one on Sunday. CBS will begin the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2012
Because CBS/Turner got an interview with Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, we have this piece of quotage for you. Boeheim discussed Orangemen center Fab Melo being declared ineligible for the NCAA Tournament, however, he really didn’t shed much light into why. But we get quotage and that’s good for you as we see a portion of […]
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Time for some linkage on this Wednesday. In case you missed it from early this morning, I wrote a post on how you can avoid paying the $3.99 fee to watch the March Madness Live app on your mobile, iPad or online. And Maine Sports Media has a legal promo code which you can use […]
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There has been plenty of confusion over the $3.99 fee to watch the NCAA Tournament online, whether it be through NCAA.com or the March Madness Live app for Android, iPhone and the iPad. First, the original press release promoted the fee and did not clearly explain how you could avoid paying it. Well after fiddling […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2012
Since we did our linkage this morning, there have been several stories worthy of links and they really should not wait until Tuesday. So I’ll do a set of links right now. We start with Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead who reports on a fake tweet about ESPN’s Erin Andrews leaving the network (her […]
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Let’s do our Monday linkage today. Michael Hiestand from USA Today writes that CBS/Turner’s Clark Kellogg will have a big “get” during halftime of Tuesday’s NCAA Tournament First Four game. Mike Reynolds at Multichannel News says MSG Network has a new show dedicated to the best and worst baseball trades and deals. Mike says YES […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/11/2012
We’ve been waiting for the NCAA Tournament tip times and announcing assignments for the 2nd round and lo and behold, they’ve come. Of course, Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg will be in Greensboro to call North Carolina and Duke. Uncle Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery will be in Louisville. Kevin Harlan, Len Elmore and Reggie […]
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On this NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday, it’s time to present some sports media thoughts and as usual, they come in bullet form. With college basketball’s conference tournaments wrapping up and we get ready for three awesome weeks of the NCAA Tournament, ESPN’s coverage of Championship Week (11 days in reality) has been nothing short of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/9/2012
Linkage has been scarce around the site this week, but I should be able to get a good set of megalinks in today as we head into NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday. You deserve the links and I thank you for your patience around some server problems this week. As usual, you can check the Weekend […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/7/2012
I tried posting this earlier yesterday and again last night, but thanks to web server problems, I could not. Plus stuff I had previously written on this exact subject was eaten by the server so I have no idea where it is. So let me retry this post and hopefully, the web gremlins that ate […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/5/2012
Last week, I asked you to vote on which themes should be the “official” tunes for each sport. This was a fun post and it was linked from Sports Illustrated. I appreciate all of the votes. The polls are now closed so let’s take a look at the results. I’ll provide the number of votes, […]
