Carolina-Duke comes to screen - Richard Deitsch - SI.com

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Et tu, HBO?
Published 6/23/2008 by ATL_eagle (noreply@blogger.com) at Eagle in Atlanta -- atleagle.com
HBO is producing a documentary on the Duke-North Carolina rivalry. It is bad enough that ESPN and all its tentacles put the Blue Devils and Heels above all other programs, but now one of the leading ESPN alternatives is continuing this larger (and largely unchallenged) media narrative. Like all other HBO docs, I am sure it will be good. I just wish they had picked a different subject. ...

Media News & Notes
Published 6/23/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... we’ve learned that - and I need WFAN.” A great piece on how celebrities help sell stuff, featuring Dan Marino, Tiger, and Michael Jordan. Also, thanks for the memory of Joe Namath and pantyhose. (NYT) Bob Papa could be the NFL Network’s play-by-play guy, and Michael Strahan is close to joining the FOX pre-game show. (NY Daily News) Deitsch is sick of the ESPN flacks trying to get him to quit writing about Newsday’s Neil Best! (SI) The person who updated Tim Russert’s death on his wikipedia ...

Michael Strahan signs up with Fox
Published 6/23/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
Busy day for Deitsch. It began with him praising me. It ended with him breaking the news that Strahan has signed with Fox. How the heck did he beat Jay Glazer to that news?

Oh, Goody: HBO To Produce and Air a Special About Duke-UNC Basketball Rivalry
Published 6/24/2008 by Alpha Wolf at The Red and White From State
... alive for when State’s basketball program mattered.  Instead, they believe the utterly asinine thought-line (that’s even come from our Athletic Director) that NC State can’t be Duke or North Carolina.  That is utter malarkey because a couple of decades ago, Duke was half the program that State was.  Now, not so much, and often it seems like the university as a whole has surrendered to mediocrity.  Or cowardice, take your pick. Duke-Carolina Comes To Screen  College basketball’s ...

HBO Plans Documentary of UNC-Duke
Published 6/25/2008 by Sportz Assassin at FanHouse
... HBO is planning on doing a documentary on the Duke-North Carolina rivalry. The documentary is scheduled to air next February, maybe just in time for the two schools to meet up in their annual post-Super Bowl bonanza. ...

UNC/Duke rivalry an HBO documentary
Published 6/25/2008 by A.E.M. (noreply@blogger.com) at The Fifth Corner
... For decades and decades so many people have shouted that the rivalry between North Carolina and Duke has always been the greatest in college basketball (if not all of sports). Now HBO is coming to the aid of those people by doing a documentary about this long running rivalry. From what I have read in an article on Sports Illustrated.com the show should come out in February `09 and will be titled "Duke vs. North Carolina". ...