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Rockies announcer jokingly calls Carlos Gonzalez home run
Friday night the Root Sports Rockies broadcast answered a fan question about home runs being hit into the fountains at Coors Field during the 6th Inning. Rockies play by play man Drew Goodman jokingly says, "Yea, Cargo's about to." On the next pitch, Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez hits a home run to straightaway center that falls just short and wide of the mark...
Pirates post-game interviewer gets pied and showered
After the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Houston Astros 5-4 in walkoff fashion thanks to a Houston error, Root Sports post-game interviewer Robby Incmikoski was interviewing Pedro Alvarez, who tied the game at four in the eighth inning with a titanic home run. Near the end of the interview, you can see Alvarez look past Incmikoski and slightly smile. Out of nowhere, Pirates pitcher...
Penguins, Bruins, Rangers thriving in playoff ratings
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins advanced to the NHL Stanley Cup Conference Semifinals, and on the way, both clubs did extremely well in the ratings in their local markets. In the Penguins-Islanders series, Root Sports averaged a record 21.3 rating for the six games, with a 23.3 rating in Game 6 setting the high watermark for a first round playoff game on Root and clocking...
Viewing Picks for May 18, 2013
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Arena Football
Orlando Predators at Philadelphia Soul -- CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Australian Rules Football
Collingwood Magpies vs. Geelong Cats -- Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 p.m.
Carlton Blues vs. Port Adelaide Power -- Fox Soccer, 11 p.m.
Boxing
Showtime Championship Boxing, Atlantic City, NJ
Jr. Welterweight Fight
Lamont Peterson vs. Lucas...
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Raisman drug tested on set
Gymnast Aly Raisman says she was drug tested while preparing for the finale of "Dancing With the Stars." Read more about the story.
ABC's NBA playoff ratings are in the tank
ABC is really hurting without the benefit of the Miami Heat on their airwaves. This past weekend, ratings for the Spurs-Warriors and Knicks-Pacers games suffered sharp declines. Sunday's San Antonio-Golden State matchup drew a 3.4 rating and 5.3 million viewers, down 29% in ratings and 30% in viewers from last year's Heat-Pacers game and 36% and 40% from 2011's Lakers...
A "prominent hockey analyst" is involved in the Rob Ford cocaine scandal?
If you've been online in the last 24 hours, you've likely seen the news somewhere that goofy Toronto mayor Rob Ford is embroiled in a crack cocaine scandal. Individuals are in the process of trying to sell the video of Toronto's mayor smoking crack, but Gawker and the Toronto Star have balked at the high asking price. However, both publications have put out articles...
How MLB splits your TV dollars
Last week, we examined how your cable and satellite bills will pay for Major League Baseball’s billion-dollar TV deals. Now let’s look at what that means for the teams themselves. How does baseball distribute your money?
We know that MLB’s new national TV contracts with ESPN, Fox, and Turner will more than double the amount of money each team received from those three networks...
The Doc Emrick Lexicon
NBC hockey announcer Doc Emrick is one of the best in the business. In fact, if you go by the preferred metric around here, he is the best play by play man in sports. One of the elements of Doc's announcing that makes him a Hall of Famer is his wide range of vocabulary use. NBC smartly paid tribute to Doc's oral aptitude by releasing a remarkable list of all the different...
TBS is launching a reality show on Green Bay Packers fans
How awesome are Green Bay Packers fans? Awesome enough to have their own reality show on cable. TBS announced at its Upfront in New York this week that it is developing an unscripted program featuring cheeseheads that will -- fittingly -- be called "Cheeseheads."
Word actually emerged last December that Packers fans were auditioning for a reality pilot, and now we have...
There are discrepancies in Eric Berry's story of his fear of horses
One of the better moments captured by NFL Films this last fall was Chiefs safety Eric Berry's skittish reaction to seeing a horse on the field. As you can see below, Berry's full attention is on the horse (named Warpaint) and not the game itself.
It didn't take long for this footage to go semi viral. Since it aired, I've always been somewhat curious as...
Viewing Picks for May 17, 2013
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Australian Rules Football
Essendon Bombers vs. Brisbane Lions -- Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m.
College Baseball
Illinois at Minnesota -- Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
Indiana at Ohio State -- Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
Notre Dame at Cincinnati -- CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
West Virginia at Oklahoma State -- Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7:30 p.m.
Texas...
U.S. Open Tennis to go all-cable through ESPN
Starting in 2015, the U.S. Open will become an all-cable affair. CBS' association with the event dating back to 1968 will end in 2014. ESPN announced the contract earlier today and SBJ's John Ourand reports that the deal is worth than $770 million for 11 years, meaning that the U.S. Open will remain on the ESPN family of networks well into the next decade.
Ourand...
Bill O'Brien calls Sports Illustrated report a "character assassination" of Penn State AD
Ed Note: The following appears courtesy our friends at Crystal Ball Run.
Bill O'Brien was focused on the future when the NCAA handed down harsh sanctions against his new football program last summer. He was short and upset after he suffered his first coaching loss in Penn State's season opener. On Wednesday he was livid and noticeably annoyed as a result of a Sports Illustrated...
This is not what you want included in your workout video
First it was the First Take fartgate saga, now via Guyism comes this random workout video featuring... a guy sitting on the john in the background. Yes it is hilarious that a workout video includes a guy peacefully sitting on the toilet taking care of his business, but let's imagine all the steps that would lead to "Burnout Challenge - HiitLean #11" including this...
The outstanding Finnish call of Patrice Bergeron's Game 7 goals
On one of my daily sweeps through the outer regions of the internet universe, I stumbled upon this clip from this week's Bruins-Leafs Game 7. We've seen the game winning goal call from Bruins announcer/crazy person Jack Edwards and here now is the Finnish call of the moment. I don't know what it is about Finnish hockey announcers, but I've thoroughly enjoyed every...
Video: A tennis meltdown for the ages
On Tuesday during a second round match at the Italian Open in Rome (known as the Internazionali BNL d'Italia to the natives), Viktor Troicki of Serbia was blitzed by Ernest Gulbis in the first set, 6-1 and about to lose the first game of the second set when a shot by Troicki was ruled out by the chair umpire.
That's when Troicki decided to go bonkers on the court. He...
TBS and TNT to offer live streaming online
At their upfront on Wednesday, TBS and TNT announced that they would be offering free live streaming on their websites this summer. The streaming would be authentication-based (just like WatchESPN or March Madness On Demand), and the MLB package on TBS and NBA package on TNT are reportedly included in the streaming.
Turner has always been at the forefront of live streaming...
Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose join Tosh.0 to reflect on a Nerf basketball legend
ESPN basketball aficionados Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose made an appearance on Tuesday's Tosh.0 season finale in order to provide deadpan analysis regarding a legendary Nerf basketball dunker.
The segment, hosted by Comedy Central joker Daniel Tosh and named 30 For 30.0, was obviously a parody. And Simmons and Rose were cast perfectly...
Giving his take on a...
5 Questions for the rumored NBA television rights talks
Just a mere 48 hours after the SBJ's report that the NBA is looking to address their television deals ahead of their 2016 expiration, the predictions and commentary on what will play out next has come fast and furious. Our Ken Fang delivered his handicapping of the NBA rights race earlier this week. With MLB, the NFL, and the NHL locked up long term, the NBA is the last of the...
Craig Sager photobombs Will Smith
Usually it's the sideline reporters that get photobombed and/or videobombed, but leave it to TNT's ecclectic NBA reporter Craig Sager to finally turn the tables. Sages was sitting behind actor Will Smith at the Bulls-Heat game last night and must have seen the actor on the TV monitor in front of him. The colorfully dressed reporter then leaned to his right and gave a...
Viewing Picks for May 16, 2013
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College Baseball
Illinois at Minnesota -- Big Ten Network, 4 p.m.
Mississippi at LSU -- ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
Baylor at Texas Tech -- Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7:30 p.m.
Texas at TCU -- Fox College Sports Central, 7:30 p.m.
Marshall at Rice -- Fox College Sports Pacific, 7:30 p.m.
St. Mary's at BYU -- BYU TV, 8 p.m.
College Football
College...
The NBA social media awards are a thing
I didn't know this was a thing, but on June 12, the NBA will televise its second annual Social Media Awards:
NBA TV will televise the second annual NBA Social Media Awards presented by SAP -- celebrating NBA players, teams and fans for their social engagement throughout the 2012-13 NBA regular season -- on Wednesday, June 12, at 8 p.m. (ET). Chris Webber (@realchriswebber...
TJ Simers trolls Mark McGwire about steroids
Los Angeles Times columnist TJ Simers should never be taken seriously. Yet, here we are. Before Tuesday's Nationals-Dodgers game at Dodger Stadium, Simers met Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire for the first time. The results were predictable, considering McGwire's past and the Dodgers' struggling offense (second to last in the NL in home runs).
I had never met Mark...
Video: Someone farted on First Take this morning
Whenever I tell someone in real life I blog about sports, bloopers and goofy videos for a living, I often get the response, "So what, you write about fart jokes all the time?"
I tend to get defensive over such flippant remarks because my work is much more dignified and significant to the greater public discourse than that and reply with something along the lines of...
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