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Sometimes I have to disagree with Ken Fang of Fang's Bites, who yesterday said the sports media was focusing on a nothing story of ESPN's Bill Simmons being banned from Twitter for two weeks because he crossed a line on Twitter. But there really is a story here.
This past August, ESPN ...
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Week eleven of the 2009 National Football League season is here, and the byes are done for the year. The big news this week was the Chicago Bears denying NBC Sports and Bob Costas prime time interviews for Football Night in America.
CBS Sports has the doubleheader this week, which means all the ...
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eyeonsportsmedia.com - 19 hours ago
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It was a Monday morning shortly after the
Ann Arbor News announced it was shutting down print
operations. On Ann Arbor radio station WTKA-AM, host John Bacon was on the air. Inside the studio with him was Sports Illustrated media writer Richard ...
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Avast Beat Writers, There Be Bloggers in the Michigan ...
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eyeonsportsmedia.com - 27 hours ago
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Tomorrow. the Ohio State Buckeyes travel to Ann
Arbor for their annual love-in with the University of
Michigan Wolverines. Although the game does not have the national impact is has in years gone by, it is still the "big game" for the schools and ...
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Avast Beat Writers, There Be Bloggers in the Michigan ...
Uga VII, the most recent mascot for the University of Georgia Bulldogs, passed away today after less than 2 full seasons in the job. When ESPN College Football Gameday rolled into Athens in September 2008, Uga, also known as "Loran's Best", made an appearance on the show.
Here is a slideshow ...
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The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that Uga VII, the University of Georgia mascot since August 2008, has died of a heart attack. UGA VII, also known as LOran's Best" is pictured below with Kirk Herbstreit during ESPN Game Day's visit to Athens last fall.
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Some months ago, the Southeastern Conference launched a Twitter feed and started promoting content on their web site and on their Facebook page. The only problem is that they failed to include links, so followers had to guess where the content was located. This is not an isolated incident as ...
NCAA Basketball
eyeonsportsmedia.com - 2 days ago
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In our November 4, 2009 edition of "Sports
Media Best Practices", we talked about "Understanding Twitter Lists
So You Can Leverage Them." One of the downsides discussed was what looked like the inability to add yourself to your own twitter lists. But ...
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Sports Media Best Practices: Adding Yourself To Your ...
eyeonsportsmedia.com - 3 days ago
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Seth Davis really scared me yesterday with this
tweet: "Siena was down 14 to a good Northeastern
team with 7 minutes to play in first half, came back to win by 6. Now you understand my man-crush." Now Siena (2-0, 0-0 MAAC) is a good team and head ...
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Seth Davis Needs To Get Over His Man-Crush
eyeonsportsmedia.com - 4 days ago
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Late last week I noticed an addition to
the ESPN.com web site menu. It was a drop
down with direct links to blogs and the Ombudsman column. This looked like welcome addition as it has always been painful finding a direct link to the ombudsman column ...
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Sports Media Best Practices: Oops! ESPN.com, Bad ...
This weekend was a rough one for men's basketball teams in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). On Friday night, Rider (1-0, 0-0 MAAC) upset then 19th ranked Mississippi State (0-1, 0-0 SEC) 88-74, knocking them out of the Top 25. The nest day, defending Ivy League Champ ...
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eyeonsportsmedia.com - 5 days ago
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Every week we watch college football and other
games on various network outlets. But just how many
people does it take to bring the game to your television screen? Here is a group shot of the ESPN crew that supports the Mark Jones and Bob Davie ...
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Photo Gallery: How Many ESPNers Does it Take To Produce ...
The days of broadcast networks owning their own fleet of mobile production units. A long time ago, they outsourced this capital equipment. But there is a downside to that. When CBS Sports, Fox Sports, and ESPN are covering games, people walking by the truck "compounds" do not know, or may not ...
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eyeonsportsmedia.com - 5 days ago
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Nothing was published this weekend as I was
a bit busy. Saturday afternoon/evening was spent working the
Auburn University - University of Georgia football game. Yesterday I was cloistered away in a chilly, dark room with a bug. No, not the ...
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Sports Media Best Practices: Without Proper Care, Sports ...
Tomorrow on CBS College Sports, the 4th-ranked Horned Frogs of TCU (9-0, 5-0 Mountain West) host 16-ranked Utah (8-1, 5-0 Mountain West) at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth (TX) in a game with huge national implications. It is a safe bet that CBS College Sports has never had a game of this ...
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After taking a bye week ourselves last week (i.e. not posting the week 9 assignments), we are back with the week ten broadcast assignments for the 2009 National Football League season. Of course, because of the timing, we are not including last night's NFL Network game between da Bears and the ...
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Fox Sports
eyeonsportsmedia.com - 9 days ago
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For this Yankee (or as they say in
the South - Damn Yankee), the start of the
college football season in Athens, Georgia never really feels like football season. Until recently, the early games at Sanford Stadium were against no-name teams and started ...
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ESPN Helps University of Georgia Football Set A Unique ...
ESPN announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Spring Editora, a leading Brazil-based magazine publisher, to launch Revista ESPN, a monthly, Portuguese-language version of ESPN The Magazine. The new publication will be built around locally relevant editorial content customized ...
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O Brasil vai ganhar uma versão própria da revista ESPN. No próximo dia 10, a Spring Editora lançará a primeira edição brasileira da publicação, que chega às bancas com tiragem de 50 mil exemplares, periodicidade mensal, circulação nacional, e traz como reportagem de capa um perfil exclusivo do ...
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eyeonsportsmedia.com - 11 days ago
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Victor Hugo is credited with once opining that
"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is
the youth of old age." I do not know if this applies in the case of ESPN anchor Linda Cohn, who turns 50 today. After all, her Facebook status ...
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It's Not About Age, It's About Attitude...ESPN's Linda ...
