I didn’t post any press releases today. I think it’s high time I do so. I hope I don’t fall asleep in the middle of doing them. Let’s go.
First, here’s what NFL Network will be showing through next week.
NFL NETWORK PROGRAMMING NOTES (6/18-6/23)
2009 BIG 33 HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STAR GAME
LIVE ON NFL NETWORK SATURDAY AT 7:00 PM ET
Ravens LB Terrell Suggs
In-Studio on NFL Total Access Thursday
Jason La Canfora Makes NFL Network Debut
on NFL Total Access Tuesday
Debut of NFL’s Top 10 Defenses Friday at 8:00 PM ET
2009 BIG 33 HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STAR GAME – Saturday at 7:00 PM ET
Saturday at 7:00 PM ET, NFL Network will simulcast the 2009 Big 33 High School All-Star game live from Hershey, PA. The game, which matches up Ohio’s best high school players versus all-star talent from the state of Pennsylvania, has boasted an alumnus in every Super Bowl ever played.
Some notable players to participate in the Big 33 All-Star game include: Super Bowl MVPs Joe Montana and Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Matt Millen and the youngest Super Bowl-winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
NFL’S TOP 10 DEFENSES – Friday at 8:00 PM ET
We know they win championships, but which defense can claim bragging rights on this list? Friday’s 8:00 PM ET edition of NFL’s Top 10 counts down the top 10 defenses of all time. The 1985 Chicago Bears, 2000 Ravens, 1969 Chiefs and the ‘Steel Curtain’ are a few of the defenses to find a spot on this list.
NFL’s Top 10 provides a look at some of the most intriguing subjects in the NFL, creating and debating a top ten list for each category. Each 60-minute episode counts down from No. 10 to the top ranking in each category.
JASON LA CANFORA MAKES NFL NETWORK DEBUT ON NFL TOTAL ACCESS TUESDAY
Former Washington Post Redskins beat writer Jason La Canfora will make his NFL Network debut Tuesday on NFL Total Access. In addition to regular appearances on NFLTA, La Canfora will contribute to NFL Network’s Sunday shows NFL GameDay Morning and NFL GameDay Final during the season and reports from the NFL Draft, Scouting Combine, Hall of Fame and Super Bowl.
A 10-year veteran beat writer for The Washington Post, La Canfora will also file stories and blogs for NFL.com.
THIS WEEK ON NFL TOTAL ACCESS: LB Terrell Suggs, Trent Green In-Studio & Jason La Canfora Makes NFL Network Deb
ut
Thursday, June 18
- ’32 Teams in 32 Days’ – Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis on the golf course
Friday, June 19
- Ravens LB Terrell Suggs in-studio
- ’32 Teams in 32 Days’ – Denver Broncos
- Countdown of the top ten father-son combinations to play in the NFL
- Solomon Wilcots tours the Buffalo Bills training facility
Monday, June 22
- Trent Green in-studio
- ’32 Teams in 32 Days’ – Houston Texans
Tuesday, June 23
- Trent Green in-studio
- Jason La Canfora goes ‘Around the League’
- Tony Dungy opens up on the direction his life has taken after football
- ’32 Teams in 32 Days’ – Buffalo Bills
NFL.COM CHAT SCHEDULE: Titans LB Keith Bulluck
Thursday, June 18
- 12:00 NOON ET – NFL.com writer Bucky Brooks
- 4:00 PM ET – NFL Network analyst Solomon Wilcots
Friday, June 19
- 2:00 PM ET – NFL.com writer Pat Kirwan
DAY-BY-DAY PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE (all times listed are ET):
Thursday, June 18
1:00 PM – NFL Films Presents: J-E-T-S
2:00 PM – Starting 11: Week 5 (HD)
2:30 PM – Starting 11: Week 6 (HD)
3:00 PM – America’s Game: 1971 Dallas Cowboys (HD)
4:00 PM – America’s Game: 1995 Dallas Cowboys (HD)
5:00 PM – NFL Film Session: Super Bowl XXIII – San Francisco 49ers vs. Cincinnati Bengals
5:30 PM – NFL Replay: Miami Dolphins vs. New England Patriots (Week 16, 20
07) (HD)7:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
8:00 PM – NFL’s Greatest Games: 1986 AFC Championship “The Drive” – Denver Broncos vs. Cleveland Browns
9:30 PM – NFL Film Session: Super Bowl XXI – New York Giants vs. Denver Broncos
10:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
11:00 PM – NFL’s Greatest Games: 1986 AFC Championship “The Drive” – Denver Broncos vs. Cleveland Browns
12:30 AM – NFL Film Session: Super Bowl XXI – New York Giants vs. Denver Broncos
1:00 AM – NFL Total Access (HD)
Friday, June 19
1:00 PM – NFL Films Presents: Championship Chase
2:00 PM – Starting 11: Week 7 (HD)
2:30 PM – Starting 11: Week 8 (HD)
3:00 PM – NFL’s Greatest Games: 1986 AFC Championship “The Drive” – Denver Broncos vs. Cleveland Browns
4:30 PM – NFL Film Session: Super Bowl XXXIII – Denver Broncos vs. Atlanta Falcons
5:00 PM – NFL Film Session: Super Bowl XXXIV – St. Louis Rams vs. Tennessee Titans
5:30 PM – NFL Film Session: Super Bowl XXI – New York Giants vs. Denver Broncos
6:00 PM – Game of the Week: New England Patriots vs. New York Giants (Week 17, 2007) (HD)
7:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
8:00 PM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Defenses
9:00 PM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Linebacking Corps
10:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
11:00 PM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Defenses
12 MIDNIGHT – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Linebacking Corps
1:00 AM – NFL Total Access (HD)
Saturday, June 20
1:00 PM – Game of the Week: Denver Broncos vs. San Diego Chargers (Week 14, 2006) (HD)
1:30 PM – Game of the Week: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants (Week 15, 2006) (HD)
2:00 PM – Game of the Week: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cincinnati Bengals (Week 17, 2006) (HD)
2:30 PM – NFL Film Session: 2006 Year in Review
3:00 PM – America’s Game: 1995 Dallas Cowboys (HD)
4:00 PM – America’s Game: 1971 Dallas Cowboys (HD)
5:00 PM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Defenses
6:00 PM – NFL Total Access: Week in Review (HD)
7:00 PM – High School Football: 2009 Big 33 All-Star Game – LIVE
10:00 PM – NFL Total Access: Week in Review (HD)
11:00 PM – High School Football: 2009 Big 33 All-Star Game
2:00 AM – NFL Total Access: Week in Review (HD)
Sunday, June 21
9:00 AM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 One Shot Wonders
10:00 AM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Power Backs
11:00 AM – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Defenses
12 NOON – NFL’s Top 10: Top 10 Linebacking Corps
1:00 PM – NFL Replay Real-Time: Week 15 (HD)
2:00 PM – Live Wire: Week 15 (HD)
2:30 PM – Starting 11: Week 15 (HD)
3:00 PM – NFL Replay: Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
4:30 PM – NFL Replay: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
6:00 PM – NFL Replay: New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
7:30 PM – NFL Replay: New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
9:00 PM – NFL Replay Real-Time: Week 15 (HD)
10:00 PM – Live Wire: Week 15 (HD)
10:30 PM – Starting 11: Week 15 (HD)
11:00 PM – NFL Replay: Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
12:30 AM – NFL Replay: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
2:00 AM – NFL Replay Real-Time: Week 15 (HD)
Monday, June 22
7:00 AM – NFL Replay: Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
8:30 AM – NFL Replay: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
10:00 AM – NFL Replay: New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
11:30 AM – NFL Replay: New York Giants v
s. Dallas Cowboys (Week 15, 2008) (HD)1:00 PM – NFL Replay: Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
2:30 PM – NFL Replay: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
4:00 PM – NFL Replay: New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
5:30 PM – NFL Replay: New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 15, 2008) (HD)
7:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
8:00 PM – Super Bowl Classics: Super Bowl XXXVI – New England Patriots vs. St. Louis Rams (with U2 Halftime Show) (HD)
11:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
12 MIDNIGHT – Super Bowl Classics: Super Bowl XXXVI – New England Patriots vs. St. Louis Rams (with U2 Halftime Show) (HD)
Tuesday, June 23
11:00 AM – Super Bowl Classics: Super Bowl XXXVI – New England Patriots vs. St. Louis Rams (with U2 Halftime Show) (HD)
2:00 PM – Starting 11: Week 9 (HD)
2:30 PM – Starting 11: Week 10 (HD)
3:00 PM – NFL Follies: Most Super Fantastic (2008)
4:00 PM – NFL Follies: 2007 Fall Follies
4:30 PM – NFL Follies: Foul Ups, Fumbles and Follies (1990)
5:00 PM – NFL Follies: Super Bowl XXXV – Baltimore Ravens vs. New York Giants
5:30 PM – NFL Replay: 2007 AFC Wild Card – Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (HD)
7:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
8:00 PM – Game of the Week: New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles (2006 Wild Card) (HD)
8:30 PM – Game of the Week: Dallas Cowboys vs. Seattle Seahawks (2006 Wild Card) (HD)
9:00 PM – Game of the Week: San Diego Chargers vs. New England Patriots (2006 Divisional Playoff) (HD)
9:30 PM – Game of the Week: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New Orleans Saints (2006 Divisional Playoff) (HD)
10:00 PM – NFL Total Access (HD)
11:00 PM – Game of the Week: New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles (2006 Wild Card) (HD)
11:30 PM – Game of the Week: Dallas Cowboys vs. Seattle Seahawks (2006 Wild Card) (HD)
12 MIDNIGHT – Game of the Week: San Diego Chargers vs. New England Patriots (2006 Divisional Playoff) (HD)
12:30 AM – Game of the Week: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New Orleans Saints (2006 Divisional Playoff) (HD)
1:00 AM – NFL Total Access (HD)
I already downloaded the new MLB.com At Bat app for both my iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s fantastic. Tonight, I was able to watch the Nationals-Yankees game and the
video quality was excellent.
LIVE GAMES COMING TO MLB.COM AT BAT 2009 APPLICATION FOR iPHONE AND iPOD touch
White Sox-Cubs, Tigers-Cardinals tilts on June 18 scheduled to mark historic launch
NEW YORK, June 17, 2009 – MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, announced today it will begin streaming full-length live games through its award-winning MLB.com At Bat 2009 application for iPhone™ and iPod® touch on Thursday, June 18. The unique addition of live baseball games will be a signature offering among the new At Bat 2009 features enabled by the new iPhone™ OS 3.0 update.
Beginning with Thursday’s Chicago White Sox-Chicago Cubs Interleague Play matchup from Wrigley Field at 2:20 p.m. (EDT), up to two live games per day, subject to blackout restrictions, will be included in MLB.com At Bat 2009. The other game scheduled for June 18 is the Detroit Tigers-St. Louis Cardinals from Busch Stadium at 8:15 p.m. (EDT). Shortly after the launch of live games, it is expected that MLB.com will roll out the entire slate of out-of-market games currently offered through its premier live streaming video product, MLB.TV Premium, as part of MLB.com At Bat 2009.
Leveraging standards-based http streaming technology, MLB.com will deliver high quality video with adaptive bitrate and DVR functionalities over either a Wi-Fi connection or the carrier network, providing for a truly portable viewing experience. The application also offers live audio broadcasts without blackout restrictions, a continuously updated scoreboard, MLB.com Gameday™ functionality, real-time video highlights and Condensed Games, a short-form video recap of the most important hits, pitches and out of every game.
MLB.com At Bat for the 2009 baseball season, including the entire postseason, is available for a one-time fee of $9.99 from Apple’s iTunes App Store on iPhone™ and iPod® touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. It remains the top-selling sports application and also ranks among the top 100 overall paid applications more than two months after becoming available.
Over to TNT which heads to Sonoma, CA for this Sunday’s NASCAR race.
TNT’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing Continues with the Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.
Pre-race coverage begins at 3:30 p.m. ET; green flag drops at 5 p.m. ET
TNT continues its exclusive coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on Sunday, June 21st live from Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. The network will air the Toyota/Save Mart 350 beginning at 5 p.m. ET with play-by-play announcer Bill Weber calling the race alongside analysts Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach in the booth. In addition, analyst Larry McReynolds will make frequent contributions from the in-field as he breaks down crew strategy and analyzes car adjustments.
The network will rev up its pre-race coverage beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET with NASCAR on TNT Live! with Marc Fein (host), Petty and McReynolds. No. 18 Kyle Busch will join TNT’s infield rig for an interview prior to the race.
TNT’s acclaimed Pride of NASCAR series will feature racing legend Dan Gurney who is the original road course ‘ringer’ and notably the first driver to win races in Formula One, NASCAR and Indy Car. Gurney also started the tradition of spraying champagne in the Winner’s Circle when he did so following a 24 Hours of Le Mans win in 1967.
In honor of Father’s Day on Sunday, June 21, TNT will feature a father/son story of No. 6 David Ragan and his father, Ken, who sold his prized 1966 Corvette in order to fund Ragan’s early racing career. Last year, Ragan tracked down the same Corvette and gave it back to his father as a gift.
The show will be followed by Countdown to Green at 4:30 p.m. ET with Weber (host), Dallenbach (analyst) and Petty (analyst) with reports from pit reporters Marty Snider, Matt Yocum, Sheheen and Czarniak.
During Countdown to Green, Dallenbach will once again break down race strategy during Wally’s World, as he is superimposed into live race footage from last season’s race at Infinieon Raceway. He will virtually walk along the road course to discuss its nuances, with the ability to stop the race footage.
In addition, Yocum will detail how No. 47 Marcos Ambrose is helping teammate No. 00 David Reutimann conquer road course racing in an effort to make the Chase for Sprint Cup Championship.
Countdown to Green leads into coverage of Toyota/Save Mart 350 at 5 p.m. ET with Weber, Dallenbach and Petty calling the action with frequent interaction with McReynolds (analyst) who will man the TNT Offtrack Robotic Car.
Throughout this year’s NASCAR on TNT Summer Series, the network will join forces with NASCAR.COM, the official site of NASCAR, to provide TNT RaceBuddy a multiplatform experience for race fans which features live feeds from the racetrack including pit road and in-car cameras, as well as live chats and polls.
REMAINING 2009 NASCAR ON TNT SCHEDULE:
(All times ET)
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. NASCAR on TNT Live! and
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Countdown to Green
5:00 – 8:30 p.m. Toyota/Save Mart 350 (from Infineon Raceway)
SUNDAY, JUNE 28
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. NASCAR on TNT Live!
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Countdown to Green
2:00 – 5:30 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing from Loudon (from New Hampshire Intl. Speedway)
SATURDAY, JULY 4
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. NASCAR on TNT Live!
7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Countdown to Green
8:00 – 11:15 p.m. Coke Zero 400 at Daytona powered by Coca-Cola (from Daytona Intl. Speedway)
SATURDAY, JULY 11
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. NASCAR on TNT Live!
7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Countdown to Green
8:00 – 11:30 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing from Chicago presented by Papa John’s (from Chicago Speedway)
I have a few more releases, but they can wait until tomorrow. I’ll be back then with more stuff.
