ESPN Outsider
detroitbadboys.com 6/29/2009 — Regardless of what you think of my opinions, we can all agree that I love sports. Right? I’m into the whole scene. Stats, free agency updates, whatever Chris Sheridan decides to pull out of his ass on Wednesday morning. I swallow it whole. No surprise, then, that I have been an ESPN ...

ESPN Gets La Liga TV Rights In U.S.
epltalk.com 6/23/2009 — ESPN has made a significant move today by announcing that GolTV has sublicensed some of its U.S. TV rights of La Liga coverage to ESPN. In March of this year, GolTV announced that it had renewed its rights to La Liga TV coverage in the United ...

The Search For ESPN's Ombudsman
sports-central.org 7/3/2009 — It's been several months since Le Anne Schreiber wrote her last column as ESPN ombudsman. SC's Brad Oremland believes Schreiber had a positive influence on the state of affairs in Bristol, and hopes ESPN will name a successor to continue her work.

English Premier League: ESPN buys TV rights for upcoming seasons
the90thminute.com 6/22/2009 — ESPN has announced they’ve purchased the television rights in the United States for the English Premier League. Setanta Sports had owned but has had serious financial troubles and lost the rights. The other broadcaster that has rights in the United States is the Fox Soccer Channel. It is ...

ESPN Does It Again
spartyandfriends.com 6/30/2009 — ESPN released College Basketball analyst Tom Brennan after 4 years at the network and a year remaining on his contract. His ability to provide analysis to viewers with a little more of a slant to towards the mid and low majors, was really overlooked, especially come tourney time. This ...

ESPN Acquires UK Premier League TV Rights From Setanta
epltalk.com 6/23/2009 — Breaking news. ESPN has acquired all 46 live matches for the 2009-10 season on U.K. TV from the Premier League. The rights were previously held by Setanta Sports up until Friday, but when Setanta failed to pay the Premier League the money it owed ...

2009-10 Bowl Schedule
ncaa.org 6/25/2009 — Here are the dates and times of the 34 bowl games for the 2009-10 season that received licenses from the NCAA Football Issues Committee . Bowl Site Date Time (ET) Network Matchup Allstate Sugar New Orleans Jan. 1, 2010 8:30 p.m. FOX BCS at-large vs. ...

ESPN To Launch Local Sites in NYC, LA and Dallas
fangsbites.com 7/20/2009 — This is a story that started circulating last night and now has come into fruition. In addition to its ESPN Chicago site that launched earlier this year, ESPN is now going after audience in the nation's two largest cities and in the Metroplex. Here's the press release from ESPN. ESPN to ...

ESPN Regional Television Announces the SEC Network
fangsbites.com 7/21/2009 — Replacing Raycom as the syndicator of over-the-air football and basketball games is ESPN Regional Television and coming in its place is something called the "SEC Network". It puts the SEC brand in front instead of ESPN although I'm sure you'll see the Alleged Worldwide Leader's graphics all over ...

ESPN Has To Make Its Mark In England Rather Quickly
awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 7/7/2009 — Saw this interesting tidbit in the NY Times today, and thought I'd share. As you know, ESPN is taking over one of the many EPL international packages, and are considering devoting an entire channel to the Soccer league. Well, EPL fans are some of ...

Lowell Spinners Give a Crap in the Name of Political Incorrectness — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/24/2009
Since beginning my stint as citizen journalist on the Bleacher Report, I've tried to write about a wide variety of baseball related topics. In an effort to break away from stories on steroids, salaries, and over inflated egos, I've written about ...

Slumping New York Yankees Must Make Drastic Changes — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/24/2009
Alex Rodriguez is just the poster boy for the recent New York Yankees' slump. A-Rod is now hitting .224 and over the past two weeks has been much worse than that number would indicate. But a host of Yankee players are sliding and ...

Star Light, Star Bright...This is My Wish for My Yankees Tonight — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/24/2009
Can you believe the mid-point of the baseball season almost upon us made known by the upcoming All-Star break serving as the intermediate point? Well believe it because it’s here.... It is only fair that I can conclude the past of my Yankees ...

Fantasy Baseball Free Agent Pool – Runs & Ribbies — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/24/2009
Some reasonably available players to assist you in the Runs and/or RBI categories. Runs Skip Schumaker, 2B/OF, St. Louis Cardinals - Skip is a nice option because of his dual position eligibility.  Last week he scored nine runs ...

Minor league team activates El Duque (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 6/24/2009
The Oklahoma City RedHawks have activated former major league pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. Hernandez is a 43-year-old right-hander who was signed to a minor league contract by the Texas Rangers on June 12 in hopes he can bolster the ...