0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2014
As the 2014 NBA Playoffs get set to begin this weekend, TNT prepares once again to be the league’s Network of Record as it airs more than 40 playoff games from the first round all the way to the Western Conference Finals. TNT begins with three games this Sunday with Dallas at San Antonio at […]
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The NBA Playoffs begin this weekend and ESPN/ABC will kick off things with a combined quadrupleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday. It all tips off on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. ET on ESPN when the Brooklyn Nets take on the Toronto Raptors from the Air Canada Centre with Dave Pasch, Jon Barry […]
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Australian Rules Football Collingwood Magpies vs North Melbourne Kangaroos — Fox Sports 2, 11:30 p.m. Boxing Friday Night Fights, Verona, NY Boxcino Tournament: Middleweight Semifinals Vitalii Kopylenko vs. Willie Monroe Jr. and Raymond Gatica vs. Brandon Adams — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Golden Boy Live, San Antonio, TX Welterweights: Alan Sanchez vs. Jorge Silva — Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2014
Tonight, four games in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, all Games 1 and three of them in the Western Conference. As with last night when NBC relied on a simulcast, it will do so again for one game. Both CNBC and NBCSN will have doubleheaders. CNBC starts it all with the New York Rangers at […]
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We only have two more months to cherish CBC as the Canadian NHL rightsholder and just that time to appreciate the great work of producer Tim Thompson who creates the musical montages for Hockey Night in Canada. His work before each HNIC game is greatly anticipated and is spread on social media after the montages […]
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College Baseball West Virginia at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 7 p.m. TCU at Texas — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m. LSU at Mississippi — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Baylor at Kansas State — Fox College Sports Pacific, 7:30 p.m. Loyola Marymount at BYU — BYUtv, 8 p.m. Seattle at New Mexico State — Fox College […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/16/2014
ESPN has released five neutral site college football season-opening games that will air in August. It begins with the Kickoff Games in Atlanta. ESPN carries Boise State vs. Mississippi on Thursday, August 28 at 8 p.m. and then ABC/ESPN2 has the contest on Saturday, August 30 as West Virginia takes on Alabama at 3 p.m. […]
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Thanks to NBC Sports public relations for forwarding this to me earlier today. Couldn’t post earlier, but doing it now. You have all of the announcing crews for all of the games from Thursday, April 17 through Sunday, April 20. Notice that Pierre McGuire works every day. He starts tonight in Pittsburgh with Doc Emrick, […]
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I’ll do my best to post these daily as they come in. The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin tonight starting one of the best postseasons in sports. CNBC and NBCSN will be involved with three games tonight. It begins with Montreal at Tampa Bay on CNBC at 7 p.m. ET. This will be a CBC simulcast […]
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College Football ESPNU Signing Day Special — ESPNU, 3 p.m. CFB Daily: Spring Blitz — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. College Football Live — ESPNU, 5 p.m. College Softball Wisconsin-Green Bay at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network, 4 p.m. Wisconsin-Green Bay at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. Long Beach State at Cal State-Fullerton — ESPNU, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2014
As it did last year, NBC is partnering with a bakery to do a promotion for the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. Last May, NBC announced a partnership with Crumbs Bakery and the “Stanley Cupcakes” which looked absolutely heavenly and delicious. This year, the partnership is with Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bakery. Instead of the “Stanley Cupcakes,” […]
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Reported by John Ourand at Sports Business Daily reports that Fox will name Joe Buck and Greg Norman as the lead broadcast team for the U.S. Open when the network takes over broadcasting golf’s second major of the season in 2015. Fox signed a 12-year contract, over $1 billion contract with the United States Golf […]
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ESPN has selected six Big Ten football games for Saturday primetime. One game has been slated for ESPN exclusively and that’s Virginia Tech at Ohio State on September 6 at 8 p.m. ET. Four games including Miami (FL) at Nebraska on September 20, Nebraska at Michigan State on October 4 and Ohio State at Penn […]
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College Basketball Texas-Arlington at Texas — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m. Kansas State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Oklahoma State — Fox College Sports Central, 7:30 p.m. College Football CFB Daily: Spring Blitz — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. CONCACAF Champions League Final, Leg 1 Cruz […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/14/2014
Just announced by the man himself on “Olbermann,” the ESPN2 show will be moving from 11 p.m. to midnight on ESPN, his old stomping grounds starting on Thursday, April 17. It will be for six nights only. He’s back to the Mothership. Now if he brings back Dan Patrick for one of those nights, it […]
