0 comments by Matt Yoder on 3/3/2015
Keith Olbermann was suspended by ESPN last week after getting into an ugly Twitter War with Penn State students who were raising money for pediatric cancer. Olbermann’s Twitter persona has been as fiery and combative as the days when he was delivering special comments calling out George W. Bush on MSNBC. The host has casually […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
All Times Eastern College Baseball Murray State at Kentucky — SEC Network Plus, 4 p.m. Evansville at Vanderbilt — SEC Network Plus, 5 p.m. Furman at Georgia — SEC Network Plus, 5 p.m. Middle Tennessee at Tennessee — SEC Network Plus, 6 p.m. Arkansas-Little Rock at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 7 p.m. Central […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 3/2/2015
Monday, March 2 Phoenix Suns at Miami Heat (NBAtv 7:30 pm) Local Broadcast Tuesday, March 3 Houston Rockets at Atlanta Hawks (NBAtv 7:30 pm) Local Broadcast Wednesday, March 4 Los Angeles Lakers at Miami Heat (ESPN 8 pm) Mark Jones, Hubie Brown Portland Trail Blazers at Los Angeles Clippers (ESPN 10:30 pm) Ryan Ruocco, Jon Barry Thursday, March 5 […]
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On Saturday night, NBC showcased a rare primetime game between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers, two age-old rivals in large markets. The contest drew a paltry 1.0 overnight rating, according to Sports Media Watch. The game drew the second-lowest overnight NHL rating of the season, only beating out the Washington Capitals and Flyers […]
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Earlier this week, ESPN analyst and former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling took to Twitter to congratulate her daughter Gabby on where she would be playing softball at the next level. Although the responses began innocently enough, it wasn’t too long until the dark side of Twitter then took over and Schilling and his daughter received crude, vulgar replies […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Carriage disputes between cable providers and sports networks are never fun to cover. They leave viewers in the lurch and without programming for what could be long periods of time. For the most part, these disputes can be avoided, but they happen despite deadlines being set, talks going to the last minute and signals getting […]
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The best part of the NFL offseason is not having to hear about Marshawn Lynch’s feud with the media. We can all agree on that. But as much as we need a break from that ongoing battle, we couldn’t help but laugh after hearing this story given Lynch’s reticent relationship with NFL reporters. Lynch finally […]
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Former Stanley Cup champ Dustin Penner is currently without a team so he had planned to be a part of TSN’s NHL trade deadline coverage today. According to a TSN press release promoting the marathon coverage, Penner would be monitoring social media: New this year, two-time Stanley Cup champion Dustin Penner joins TSN’s own Cabral “Cabbie” Richards to provide a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
All Times Eastern College Basketball Men’s Virginia at Syracuse — ESPN, 7 p.m. Baylor at Texas — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Oklahoma at Iowa State — ESPN, 9 p.m. Boston College at Virginia Tech — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s UConn at South Florida — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Texas Tech at Baylor — Fox College Sports Atlantic, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2015
It’s easy to say that Twitter is filled with negativity and hate, but there are some good things if you know where to look. ESPN’s Ed Werder has been using Twitter to chronicle his family’s battle with cancer. We know Werder as the NFL insider who’s covered the Dallas Cowboys and other teams in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
We are definitely in a new era at ESPN. In announcing Chapel Hill, NC as its final College GameDay stop of the basketball season for this week’s Duke-North Carolina rematch, the Worldwide Leader has again assigned Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas and Shannon Spake to the game just as it did for last month’s contest. And […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
College football fans can be quite rabid. We know fans in the SEC footprint can be militant especially when someone says something they perceive as negative about their teams. Listen to the callers on the Paul Finebaum Show on radio and SEC Network and you’ll know of what we speak. But then the Florida State […]
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All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football NAB Challenge Round 1, Townsville Football Grounds, Kirwan, Queensland, Australia Gold Coast Suns vs. Geelong Cats — Fox Soccer Plus, 12:30 a.m. Bobsled FIBT World Championships, Winterberg, Germany Men’s 2-Man — Universal Sports, 3 p.m. (same day coverage) College Baseball Clemson at South Carolina — SEC Network, noon Dartmouth […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/28/2015
We almost made it to March and managed to avoid the dreaded sports programmer vs. cable provider story. Well, that is until now. This is not the typical network vs. provider dispute where negotiations go to the midnight hour and a signal is about to be pulled. This is about sports programming costs and it […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio has become one of the most criticized media figures out there this week thanks to his comment on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan last Friday that a potential video tape of Dez Bryant may be a reason the Cowboys haven’t yet signed him to a new contract. That comment appears to […]
