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ESPN Announces 2012 NASCAR Coverage

Ken — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:50:12 +0000

The ESPN family of networks will once again be all over NASCAR with coverage of the entire Nationwide Series and the last 17 races of the Sprint Cup schedule including the 10 race Chase series. Calling the races will be Allen Bestwick for the first part of the Nationwide Series and ESPN/ABC’s Sprint Cup schedule. [...]

Fox Sports Net Airs “Connected with Jason Whitlock” Special on Muhammed Ali

Ken — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:45:31 +0000

The latest episode of Fox Sports Net’s “Connected with Jason Whitlock” will focus on Muhammed Ali and the impact he had on sports, politics and the black community. Whitlock’s guests will include embattled baseball star Barry Bonds, NFL legend Jim Brown, former NFL defensive lineman Warren Sapp, former NBA player John Salley, noted University of [...]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Ken — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:25 +0000

College Basketball Men’s Nebraska at Purdue — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. Dayton at Duquense — A-10 Network: The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. South Florida at Syracuse — Big East Network: Bright House/MASN/SNY, 7 p.m. Mississippi at Tennessee — CSS/Cox Sports Television/Comcast SportsNet California Plus, 7 p.m. West Virginia at Notre Dame — ESPN2, 7 [...]

What is This Local News Anchor Wearing?

Ken — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:00:14 +0000

This afternoon after running errands, I turned on the TV for the local news and I noticed that anchor Alison Bologna of WJAR-TV in Providence, RI was wearing one of the most hideous things I have ever seen. It was so distracting, that I had no idea what she was reading off the teleprompter. Luckily, [...]

Bryant Gumbel’s Closing Comment on Real Sports Focuses on Jeremy Lin

Ken — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:30:06 +0000

We have the transcript from tonight’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO. As expected, Bryant speaks about the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin, but he also thinks the coverage is more of a media creation and come Spring Training, no one will care about him. Agree? BRYANT GUMBEL CLOSING COMMENTARY REAL SPORTS WITH [...]

TBS Announces Early 2012 Sunday MLB Schedule

Ken — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:10:18 +0000

TBS has unveiled the first eight games of its Sunday afternoon MLB schedule and the first things that jump out are the three appearances each by the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays. In the Rays’ case, all of their games are against the Yankees and Red Sox. No other teams [...]

MLB Network’s Baseball IQ Down To The Quarterfinals

Ken — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:50:22 +0000

MLB Network’s first-ever game show, Baseball IQ, is now down to the Elite Eight. Tonight and tomorrow, the show will whittle down the teams to the Final Four and then the Championship. Representatives from all MLB teams, MLB.com and the Baseball Hall of Fame took part in a single-elimination tournament that brought us to the [...]

Tennis Channel To Rank 100 Greatest Players of All-Time

Ken — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:40:49 +0000

Coming up in March, Tennis Channel will air a five part series counting down the 100 Greatest Player in the sport of all-time. The weeklong special titled “100 Greatest of all Time” will air from March 19-23 and will span from the sport’s beginnings all the way through today. You would have to think Chris [...]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Ken — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:36 +0000

College Basketball Men’s Xavier at UMass — A-10 Network: Fox Sports Ohio/The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. Georgetown at Seton Hall — Big East Network: Altitude/Bright House/CSS/MASN/SNY, 7 p.m. Illinois at Ohio State — ESPN, 7 p.m. Kansas State at Missouri — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Auburn at Florida — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Clemson at Georgia Tech [...]

Late Monday Afternoon Links

Ken — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:40:27 +0000

This week is going to be busy for me. I was cleaning out an office for most of the day and it looks like that will be on the agenda for the rest of the month. I’ll do my best to post what I can here. But just know that I may be scarce. I’ll [...]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Ken — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:00:33 +0000

College Basketball Men’s UConn at Villanova — ESPN, 7 p.m. Texas Southern at Mississippi Valley State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Baylor at Texas — ESPN, 9 p.m. DePaul at St. John’s — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Notre Dame at Louisville — ESPN, 2 p.m. Ohio State at Penn State — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Northwestern at [...]

TNT Airs a President’s Day Holiday Doubleheader

Ken — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:20:32 +0000

The NBA gets three games nationally on Monday as it’s a three day weekend for many Americans. ESPN will air Atlanta at Chicago at 4 p.m. But TNT gets a primetime doubleheader with the Boston Celtics taking on the defending NBA Champions Dallas Mavericks. That will be followed by Portland at the Lakers in the [...]

ESPN Takes Additional Action in Jeremy Lin Headline Slur

Ken — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:35:46 +0000

ESPN has announced disciplinary action against the person responsible for the Asian slur on the network’s mobile site and ESPNews anchor Max Bretos who used the same phrase earlier in the week. ESPN won’t name the headline writer, but needless to say that person has been fired. Bretos has been suspended for a month. ESPN [...]

A Few Sunday Links

Ken — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:15:30 +0000

Looks like I’ll be out for most of the day today. Avoided my day being planned for me on Saturday, but not on Sunday. Multichannel News looks at NBC Sports Group’s Hockey Day in America coverage. Kent Gibbons of Multichannel writes that Fuse which was dropped by Time Warner Cable ahead of its dispute with [...]

Mad Men Season 5 Promo

Ken — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:20:27 +0000

Our first promo for Season 5 of Mad Men is out. It doesn’t reveal much, but I’m sure future promos will give us tastes of what we can expect. As I did for Season 4, I will post videos after each episode. Here’s an example in case you’re a new reader. And let’s take a [...]

Saturday Linkage

Ken — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:05:25 +0000

The last thing I wanted to wake up to this morning was reaction to racist headlines regarding Jeremy Lin, but that’s what we have on this Saturday. I’ve already written a post about it and I’ve given my opinion about the incident already. I’ll give ESPN the benefit of the doubt feeling the headline was [...]

ESPN Had To Go There With Jeremy Lin

Ken — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:50:36 +0000

From the “What Were They Thinking?” Department, someone at ESPN put a “Chink in the Armor” headline at its mobile and tablet site for Jeremy Lin’s first loss. While it was not visible at its desktop site, many people saw it and quickly put screengrabs on Twitter. The headline was removed, but not after an [...]

HBO’s Real Sports Returns February 21

Ken — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:45:17 +0000

HBO’s Emmy Award-winning sports magazine, Real Sports, returns Tuesday with three new stories. It includes an investigation into the tragic plane crash that took the lives of everyone on board from Lokomotiv, one of the best teams in Russia’s KHL. Real Sports also profiles a professional BASE jumper. And the rounds out its new features [...]

BREAKING: MSG Network/Time Warner Cable Impasse Broken

Ken — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:35:12 +0000

Happening now, we’re learning from the New York Times’ Richard Sandomir that the seven week stalemate between MSG Network and Time Warner Cable is finally over. At the end of 2011, MSG Network went dark on Time Warner systems after carriage talks broke down. For the last seven weeks, fans of the Buffalo Sabres, New [...]

Wringing Out Some Friday Megalinks

Ken — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:40:15 +0000

Let’s do your media megalinks since last week you did not get any. Hard to believe that college baseball, college lacrosse and NASCAR seasons are starting up, but they are and they’re included in the Weekend Viewing Picks along with the regular Golf, NBA, NHL, Skiing, Soccer, Tennis and Entertainment recommendations. To your links now. [...]