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Paul Finebaum on Harvey Updyke Jr. call: “When the tree poisoner called in, we didn’t know it was him until we were talking...
"I think if we had to do it over again, we probably would have moved on without any rancor. But he was on the air, he said some idiotic things which I tried to point out, and I personally regret having to subject some of our friends out there to that."
LSU – Alabama ratings up 47 percent from 2018 for CBS, highest since 2011
LSU - Alabama was the second-most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011.
CBS’ Brad Nessler talks preparing to call LSU-Alabama: “You have to be ready for a big play on just about every snap.”
"It's fun to call a game when there's points and there's strategy and it's not just every yard is such a grind and every third down is 'God, is anybody ever going to convert a third down?' You've got these two offenses that can score literally in 11 seconds."
LSU-Alabama to be played in afternoon for first time since 2010, but Paul Finebaum’s “does not have the cachet it used to” take...
Alabama-LSU has been a primetime CBS game every year since 2010, but it won't be this year thanks to CBS' pick of Notre Dame-Georgia as their one contractually-allowed primetime game.
No. 7 Florida-No. 5 LSU is on ESPN rather than CBS thanks to an interesting CBS decision to take No. 1 Alabama-No. 24...
The CBS pick of Alabama-Texas A&M happened before last weekend's Florida win, but it also likely has a lot to do with markets and viewers.
HBO appears to be developing a “Hard Knocks-like” show featuring four college programs
A report has the selected teams as Washington State, Arizona State, Alabama and Penn State, but no contracts appear to be signed yet.
Clemson’s blowout of Alabama was entertaining, but it didn’t keep people tuned in
ESPN drew a strong rating, but not at the heights of prior years.
The ESPN Coaches Film Room breaks down Nick Saban smashing his headset while Alabama is up 18 points
"This is one of those headset things where you break your headsets, right?"
CBS announces Alabama-LSU is highest rated college football game so far this season
Despite the blowout, CBS still got a strong rating for Alabama-LSU.
Lightning in the area led to ESPN zooming way out on the Alabama-Arkansas game
Lightning in the area wasn't close enough to shut down the game entirely, but it did lead to ESPN having to use cameras in safer spots.
The change in the ESPN-Alabama relationship may be most about Nick Saban realizing the value of ESPN
Saban allowed ESPN to film an all-access series at training camp this year after years of turning those requests down, and also quickly apologized to ESPN's Maria Taylor after being rude during an interview.
Nick Saban gets cranky with ESPN’s Maria Taylor, says ‘quit asking’ about Alabama’s QB situation
"Alright, so why do you continue to try and get me to say something that doesn't respect one of them? I'm not going to, so quit asking."
Alabama football’s official Twitter account is the latest to get (briefly) suspended, paving the way for jokes
Alabama joins Georgia, Missouri, Texas, South Florida and others hit by Twitter suspensions over music in videos.
Alabama’s football Twitter account gets hilariously salty after Auburn kicker brags about state championship on Finebaum
Yes, someone associated with Alabama football is apparently paid to photoshop trophies into SpongeBob memes.
