0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/19/2011
Let’s do you some links on this Monday, a get back to work day for many of you. Starting with John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, he writes that ESPN is now shooting back at critics who say the network will pass its huge Monday Night Football deal down to cable subscribers. Sports Business Journal […]
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This just in from the NBC Sports Group. As The Group undertakes a new 10 year contract with the National Hockey League, NBC gives its announcing lineup for the NHL on both the NBC mothership and Versus/NBC Sports Network. We find that the main team will be Mike “Doc” Emrick, Ed Olcyzk and Pierre McGuire. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/16/2011
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from Tallahassee, Florida — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon Auburn at Clemson — ABC Big Ten Network Channel Finder Eastern Michigan at Michigan — Big Ten Network Southeast Missouri State at Purdue — Big Ten Network Penn State at Temple — ESPN Pittsburgh at Iowa […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/15/2011
Let’s give you a few more links on this late Thursday. Alex Ben Block of the Hollywood Reporter talks with Fox Sports El Jefe del Mundo David Hill about the Los Angeles Dodgers ownership saga and NFL TV coverage. The Associated Press looks at some changes coming for the Coaches vs. Cancer college basketball classic […]
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I’m going to post as many links as I can. It’s part of the day where I could be leaving at any time. Let’s do this. From USA Today, Tom Weir writes that the National Hockey League has issued a new social media policy to take effect immediately. Michael Malone of Broadcasting & Cable looks […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2011
This was announced last Thursday by Bob Costas during the NFL Kickoff 2011 pre-game show on NBC, but finally made official today. Dan Patrick will be the host of NFL Turning Point on Versus which premieres on Thursday at 10 p.m. ET. The show will be co-produced by NBC Sports and NFL Films. When Thursday […]
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Let’s do some links on this Wednesday. It’s going to be busy for me later on and I’ll be away from internet access for a bit this afternoon so I’m going to the links now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at the circuitous path NFL Network RedZone host Scott Hanson took to getting to getting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/11/2011
I wasn’t able to link yesterday due to some personal commitments. I’ll be doing some today. Mike McCarthy of USA Today says ESPN yanked teams with anti-Semitic names from its fantasy football leagues. Daniel Riley of GQ speaks with the best baseball announcer of all-time, Vin Scully about his greatest calls. John Eggerton of Broadcasting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2011
Versus will air a college football twin-bill today which includes one that makes history when the kickoff is made. That is the Utah-USC game which will mark the very first Pac-12 Conference game. That takes place at the venerable LA Coliseum at 7:30 p.m. ET. The other game will be in the Mountain West as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2011
Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College Gameday live from Ann Arbor, MI — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon Big Ten Network GameFinder South Dakota State at Illinois — Big Ten Network Toledo at Ohio State — Big Ten Network San Diego State at Army — CBS Sports Network Ohio State at Wisconsin — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2011
I was in between offices yesterday and could not do the links as I had wanted. Let’s provide some now while I can. Nate Davis at USA Today writes about ESPN extending the rights to air Monday Night Football and keep the series on cable through 2021. The Hollywood Reporter notes that tonight’s Presidential jobs […]
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This in from the NBC Sports Group, the premiere of the new NBC SportsTalk shows will premiere tonight at 6 Eastern time on Versus. As previously mentioned, Mondays will be hosted by Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, then Tuesday through Thursday will utilize NBC’s other SportsTalk brands then Friday reverts to football again and we’ll […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2011
This in from the National Football League, four NBCUniversal networks and NFL Network will simultaneously air the NFL Kickoff Pregame show Thursday night at 7:30 ET. NBC will join in progress after its coverage of President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress is finished. So G4, Syfy, USA Network and Versus are the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2011
A nice day here in Southern New England and I’m at home watching some good sports action as we have afternoon MLB games, the U.S. Open, a little CFL and some college football later. A good sports day for the Labor Day holiday. Before I do the links, let’s go into one of the stranger […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/4/2011
I’m linking in the middle of doing some badly needed DIY projects here at the Fang’s Bites abode so I might be a bit scarce today. I’ll do what I can on this lazy Sunday, the middle of the Labor Day Weekend. The ESPN Ombudsman, Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute responds to Bruce Feldman’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/3/2011
The end of NBC Sports Group’s horse racing series, “Summer at Saratoga” is today. Versus will air the Forego and Woodward Stakes from the fabled Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. It’s a series that gave both NBC and Versus some summer programming over a span of six consecutive weeks. We’ll see if this […]
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The Notre Dame season begins today in South Bend, IN as the Fighting Irish host South Florida. And the matchup is a bit intriguing as South Florida coach Skip Holtz is the son of former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz and he’s an alum of the school. NBC airs the game at 3:30 p.m. today […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2011
Let’s get these megalinks done as I hope to give you a weekend full of posts for the three day holiday. That’s my plan, at least. They could get changed due to family or weather. You never know. I have the sports and entertainment programming in the Weekend Viewing Picks. Let’s get to the linkage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/1/2011
Came home a bit early from work so let me provide you with some linkage today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Marcus Allen will join Fox Sports Media Group’s coverage of college football. Ryan Ballengee of Pro Golf Talk discusses the new 9 year deal signed between the PGA Tour and its TV […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2011
I’m going to try to do some Wednesday linkage here. Also have a lot of end of the month/beginning of the month crap to do at work some I’m balancing the two off. Here are the links that I have for now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at NBC’s plans to provide live online coverage […]
