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British Open to go all-cable in ESPN deal

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:45:34 +1900

By JON SHOW & JOHN OURAND Staff Writers The British Open is about to become an all-cable affair, as ESPN stands poised to pick up rights to the entire tournament starting in 2010, ending ABC s 50-year association with the event. According to several sources familiar with the talks, ESPN and British Open organizer R&A are in the final stages of cutting a seven-year deal worth about $25 million ...

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ESPN's 2008-2009 College Football Bowl Schedule

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:54:00 +1900

I got extremely excited when ESPN sent a press release with the subject line, "2008 College Football Schedule For ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN360.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN Mobile TV and ESPN Radio," but to my dismay, the thing has about a billion holes. If anyone wants it feel free to email me, and I'll gladly pass it along, but it's ridiculously incomplete and not worth posting. With that ...

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician found this 10 hours ago on awfulannouncing.blogspot.com [link]

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Brian Giles credits Tanning for Yesterday's win

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:00 +1900

I was watching local ABC Channel 10 yesterday and Brian Giles is being interviewed in the locker room. He's got his shirt off and a ton of microphones in his face. He said something like "Why'd Eaton pitch such a great game? Well, he's tan. We've been tanning together." I did a little google search about Brian Giles and his love of tanning. It looks like it goes back a few years when he was ...

Walkoff Walk found this 3 days ago on www.gaslampball.com [link]

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Ask a dumb question…

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:04:41 +1900

At MGoBlog, Brian Cook asks Is this a good deal? Alabama and Clemson are opening the season in Atlanta. Kudos to them; the trend of moving football games off campus is far less annoying than the one in which no one plays anyone. But I wonder if it’s worth it: Alabama and Clemson will reportedly earn nearly [...]

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Tiger Woods out of the picture, TV ratings in the tank - Los Angeles Times

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:03:19 +1900

Case 1: Buick Open. The first event of three events so far that Woods would have played but missed because of his knee surgery. The overnight rating on CBS for the fourth round was down 12%, from a 1.7 to a 1.5. Case 2: AT National. Worse. The overnight ratings for the fourth round on CBS were down 48%, from a 2.9 to a 1.5. Third-round ratings dipped 35%, from a 2.0 to a 1.3. Case 3: British ...

SmackCaster SmackBlog found this 3 days ago on www.latimes.com [link]

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College Gameday's First Stop Leaked In A Beano Cook Chat

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:59:00 +1900

There's been no word of the College Gameday schedule for this year's College Football season, and I'm sure ESPN is waiting to announce them all at once. Unfortunately for the powers that be, Beano Cook just gave away the first stop on the Gameday tour in a chat on ESPN.com. So which city is the lucky winner? Drumroll please.... Atlanta, GA for the Bama-Clemson Game on ABC (Saturday, Aug 30 ...

Mizzourah found this 2 days ago on awfulannouncing.blogspot.com [link]

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FanHouse

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:41:01 +1900

After the draft I noted what a fine job NFL Network's Rich Eisen did as the studio host. Well, it turns out Eisen's personal life isn't going quite as smoothly. The New York Post reports: Philadelphia TV reporter Alycia Lane is in hot water after a series of private e-mails and saucy snapshots she sent to handsome NFL Network anchorman Rich Eisen were intercepted by his wife. Suzy ...

Signal to Noise found this 3 days ago on www.fanhouse.com [link]

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Tiger Woods out of the picture, TV ratings in the tank - Los Angeles Times

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:45:20 +1900

Deadspin found this 3 days ago on www.latimes.com [link]

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Report: Oklahoma City franchise nicknamed Thunder - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:01:00 +1900

OKLAHOMA CITY (TICKER) —Oklahoma City’s new NBA franchise has nicknamed itself the Thunder, according to a report Saturday on the web site of the city’s ABC affiliate. Citing a source close to team ownership, KOCO-TV reported that the “registrar for all of the NBA’s Internet domain names were reserved okcthunderbasketball.com and okcthunderbasketball.net on July 10,” suggesting that the ...

Love of the Game: The Rip City Project found this 5 days ago on sports.yahoo.com [link]

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Jimmy V Award for Perserverance

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:49:31 +1900

Justin Timberlake killed it at the ESPY Awards . I think he even got Posh Spice to crack half a smile. Here’s an interview JT did with ABC’s Robin Roberts the morning after his performance. In this clip you will see Kevin Everett walk up to the podium to accept the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance. Quite inspirational considering less than a year ago he was carried off the football ...

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British Open Live Blog

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:28:11 +1900

As the wind continues to sweep around the links of Royal Birkdale, the scores balloon and the leaders are bringing more and more names into the equation. Chris Wood ? Simon Wakefield ? Ross Fisher ? Really? Greg Norman , the leader heading into Sunday , has struggled while Padraig Harrington has kept it steady through seven holes and is currently leading the Open Championship. Sitting ...

Rover found this 5 days ago on golf.fanhouse.com [link]

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NFL Network(s)?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:32:57 +1900

With the NFL and Comcast still feuding , we started thinking about which NFL players are most like which TV channels. In honor of their continued struggle to allow the whole world to see the NFL Cheerleader playoffs, we will leave the NFL Network off the list here.

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Wednesday night’s goals

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:41:04 +1900

Bray 0 - Bohemians 2 ( Eircom Premier, July 15, 2008) Bohs closed the gap on league leaders St Patrick’s Athletic to one point. Jason McGuinness fired home his first league goal of the season from a Stephen O’Donnell corner. Neil Fenn was the key playmaker for the visitors and it was his quickly taken free kick 10 minutes after the break which set up Glen Crowe for the Gypsies ...

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Association of Boxing Commissioners to start MMA committee

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:19:42 +1900

The Association of Boxing Commissioners has elected to create a committee to oversee the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Nick Lembo, the legal counsel for the New Jersey Athletic Control Board, has been chosen to chair the committee. Other member on the committee will include Jim Erickson (North Dakota SAC), Armando Garcia (CSAC), Keith Kizer (NSAC), Dale [...]

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Unified Rule changes, take two

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:10:57 +1900

Well, it looks like everyone agreed that the Association of Boxing Commissions fucked up with their last attempt to mess with the Unified Rules of MMA. Now that everyone has basically told them where to shove their changes, they’re backtracking and saying “That last batch of changes were just ‘ideas’. Now we’re going to get [...]

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