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John Madden will miss calling an NFL game next weekend after working 476 in a row. Madden, 72, who travels by bus because
of a fear of flying, will take a break from his "Sunday Night Football" duties to spend time with his family
instead of making three straight cross-country trips, NBC ...
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Cris Collinsworth
After receiving nearly 15,000 entries, the song "Canadian Gold,"
written by an elementary school teacher has been
voted as the new anthem for CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada."
Colin Oberst's winning composition was up against "Sticks to the Ice,"
a piece by 13-year-old Toronto composer Robert ...
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NHL
Don Cherry
Toronto Maple Leafs
Welcome back my friends to the dispute that never ends. The FCC ruled Comcast Corp. has discriminated against the NFL Network by only agreeing to carry the cable channel on a premium tier. The government said Comcast consumers should be able to access NFL Network, which has it's own package ...
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Today's edition of "Morons on Parade" originates from Minneapolis where two conservative radio talk-show hosts went after basketball legend Magic Johnson by accusing him of faking his 1991 AIDS diagnosis. The Associated Press, quoting a transcript posted by mediamatters.com, said the ...
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Chris Baker
Orlando Magic
Major League Baseball's championship series kick off tonight and the story lines are intriguing. If the games are as good as they look to be, Fox and TBS figure to do quite nicely on the ratings front. No yarn in this postseason continues to be more compelling than the unlikely tale of the ...
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Tampa Bay Rays
Joe Maddon
Boston Red Sox
With Fox ready to televise the National League Championship Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers starting Thursday, analyst Tim McCarver leveled a mighty broadside at Manny Ramirez. McCarver, who will team with Joe Buck, called the ex-Boston Red Sox star's commitment ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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ESPN and the new MLB Network will split television rights to the World Baseball Classic under agreements announced Tuesday. The Worldwide Leader has U.S. English and Spanish television rights to 23 of the 39 games
during the 16-team tournament, including the semifinals and the final
on ...
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ESPN
World Baseball Classic
USA
Two red-hot, hard-charging teams will meet in the National League Championship Series when the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers begin squaring off Thursday to see who will go to the World Series.
The series is so close that TBS studio analysts Cal Ripken and Dennis Eckersley ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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Dennis Eckersley
Hall of Famer Bob Prince may be the best known voice in Pittsburgh Pirates history, but no one spent more years in the broadcast booth calling Bucs games than Lanny Frattare.
The 60-year-old Frattare, a Pirate announcer for 33 seasons, called it quits Wednesday. He was under contract for ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
When the great ones pass time stops for a moment. In the worlds of show business and charitable endeavors, Paul Newman was as big as they get.
Newman's loss — he died Friday at 83 after a long battle with cancer — transcends that of a major movie star who headlined more than 50 films and ...
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Eddie Royal
Sad news emanating today from the New York Giants organization as longtime radio analyst Dick Lynch has passed away.
Lynch died Wednesday morning after being treated for leukemia. He was 72.
A standout defensive back on the great Giant teams of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lynch ...
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New York Giants
Marv Albert
Having just returned from Dallas, the Spud can report that even the hard-charging America's Team Cowboys were relegated to second fiddle last week in the local sports media by the career suicide being committed by Mavericks basketball player Josh Howard and the over-the-top support of his ...
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Dallas Mavericks
Mark Cuban
Josh Howard
Officials botch calls all the time. It's the human element of sports that makes them unpredictable. Ed Hochuli really screwed up Sunday in Denver when he ruled a ball that slipped from the hands of Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler was an incomplete pass and not a fumble that was ultimately ...
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