Awful Announcing
The NCAA Frozen Four credentialed four Michigan Daily journalists the past two years. But this year, the new all-female men's hockey beat there only received two seats.
A federal court in the Eastern Tennessee District has granted a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in a NIL controversy.
"Who’s going to do for those championships what ESPN has done, not just in the championships, but in the regular season as well? Do not undervalue the thousands of hours produced on ABC/ESPN networks."
"We tried at every stage to negotiate an agreement of some kind, to limit what would happen. But we learned the ‘NCAA’ stood for ‘Never Compromise Anything at Anytime,’ and they wouldn’t even talk to us."
The NCAA College Baseball Tournament begins today with 16 Regional sites. Games will air on ESPN2, ESPNU, ACC Network and SEC Network and stream on ESPN+.
"I don't think my quote that made the rounds on [social] media was taken in any type of context at all."
"Drinkwitz went into damage control, defending his earlier remarks by adding what he felt was needed 'context'"
"Democrats and Republicans. They're all crooks."
The men's NCAA Tournament moves to the 2nd round with a quadruple header on CBS and doubleheaders on TBS and TNT while the networks of ESPN cover the women's tournament
The former ESPN hoops expert: 'I can kind of do what I want now, which is a lot of fun.'
"The South Atlantic Conference significantly bolsters our collegiate programming. We’re committed to providing SAC member schools and athletes with a robust digital platform to connect with their communities and fans."
The SEC must not believe in the "retweets do not equal endorsements" saying.
Written by the team behind 'Cobra Kai,' the series is based on a book by Walter Byers, longtime executive director of the NCAA.
The MAC is proposing to play football in the spring, and other conferences may follow. ESPN reportedly has interest in televising the MAC's games then, and they may wind up being fine televising other conference games in the spring as well.
"The FCS is a round-robin championship with 20 teams participating." Wrong and wrong.
Furloughed Banner Society staffers Spencer Hall, Jason Kirk, Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner and Tyson Whiting have teamed up for an ebook "about the ever-desperate crusade to wrangle college sports, set in and around a time-travelin’, rootin’-tootin’, extra-demented American West."
"Are the students getting paid? And are they getting paid across the board, or just the schools that can afford it. There are conversations going on right now about how you might split the top five (conferences) in two."
Eliminating California schools from competing for national championships would dramatically damage the fields in a lot of non-revenue sports, and throw away a lot of viewers, attendees and host sites in revenue sports as well.
This could be an opportunity for Fox to show more women's college basketball.
First round overnight ratings "averaged a 6.1/14 metered market household rating/share."
Emmanuel Acho's video seems a bit more accurate.
It's the New Mexico State Aggies.
