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This Time It's Real: Boxing To Return To Network TV With NBC - Main Events Deal
Bloguin is lucky to have the best boxing blog on the web as part of it's network. The article below initially ran on Queensberry Rules which we highly recommend that you check out.
We've had a lot of false starts and potential left unfulfilled in the last couple years when it has come to live boxing reappearing on the big four networks. But a news release Monday...
Texas A&M makes the worst Youtube video ever to announce SEC arrival
For reasons unbeknownst to advanced societies, Texas A&M University felt it was necessary to make a frightening SEC Pride Youtube video. Why? Hopefully children in the great state of Texas will study the reasons in the years and generations to come so as to not replicate the horrors seen above. Everything about this video is so perfectly awful in every way. For one...
Dave Barnett to miss rest of season
Texas Rangers play by play man Dave Barnett has been out of the Rangers booth since a bizarre incident June 16th when he began rambling incoherently on-air. At the time, we weren't quite sure what to make of it, but it was revealed Barnett had suffered a serious migraine. The last update was Barnett missing a few games to undergo medical tests. Now, the Rangers announcer...
ESPN to televise final table of world's richest poker tournament live
Last summer ESPN saw moderate success as they televised certain events of the World Series of Poker live instead of on tape delay. Poker is another one of those niche sports that ESPN has seen success in televising in the past, although the industry has certainly fallen on hard times. There are some disadvantages to televising a live poker tournament. For starters, fans...
11 thoughts on ESPN's Euro 2012 coverage
Spain won their third major soccer tournament in a row Sunday, defeating Italy 4-0 in the Euro 2012 Final with perhaps their most masterful display in the last four years. This Spanish side, champions of Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup, and Euro 2012 is rightly being discussed amongst the greatest internationsl soccer teams of all-time. The rise of the Spanish national team has...
Your MLB announcing schedule for 7/2-7/8
Welcome to the last week before the Mid-Summer Classic, the MLB All-Star game. You know, the one that counts this time? You might suspect that MLB and their television partners would be keen to showcase some of the game's younger talents in the buildup to the All-Star game. Or, at least it might be wise to show some of the surprise teams of the first half of the season...
Andrews to make Fox debut at MLB All-Star Game
Fox Sports communications VP Dan Bell has tweeted that Fox's newest on-air talent, Erin Andrews, will be making her debut at the MLB All-Star Game on Fox next Tuesday. Andrews will serve as a reporter in the American League dugout during the game.
Fox isn't wasting any time getting Andrews on-air with the network, much like NBC did with Michelle Beadle. However, Fox'...
NBC and Sports Illustrated will team up for monthly show
NBC Sports Network has slowly built its portfolio in the last year with shows like NFL Turning Point and Costas Tonight, but their latest initiative may be the most intriguing. NBC Sports Network will launch a new monthly magazine show... but not just any magazine show, a Sports Illustrated magazine show. Here's the crux of the announcement from NBC:
The NBC Sports Group...
NFL blackout rules becoming less strict
The NFL's blackout rules have been a source of frustration for NFL fans for some time now. However, the Wall Street Journal is reporting the NFL is significantly loosening blackout restrictions for the coming season. Last season, the NFL blacked out 16 games in five markets, which was actually an improvement over 2010 when 26 games were blacked out. Blackouts were a particularly...
NBC will televise Olympic run off live Monday night
What if I told you two weeks ago the most exciting element of the US Olympic Trials would be deciding 3rd place in the Women's 100 meters? Crazy, I know, but such is the beauty and unpredictability of sports. The crack staff at USA Track and Field has finally decided that a run off is in order between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh to decide the third and final US qualifier for...
A detailed look at the last year in sports media free agency
In the few years I’ve been closely following sports media (back to the olden days of AA 1.0 in 2006), I can’t remember a time when there were so many major talent shakeups. In just over the past year, Gus Johnson, Erin Andrews, Michelle Beadle, Jim Rome, Darren Rovell, Bruce Feldman, and many others have traded places. The past year has been like watching the famous NBA Summer...
Erin Andrews officially joins Fox
The wait was a short one. After officially leaving ESPN on Friday afternoon, it was announced today by Fox Sports that Erin Andrews has arrived. Richard Deitsch of SI first reported Fox was aggressively pursuing EA on Friday before the official confirmation from Bristol of her departure hours later. At Fox, Andrews will host a new primetime college football pregame show...
Michael Strahan strips for Kelly Ripa and Channing Tatum
90% of women with a pulse either has already or most likely will be seeing the male stripper movie known as Magic Mike in the coming days, but it was a former football player turned announcer that ended up giving the ladies a show on live television earlier this week.His name? Michael Strahan.
During one of the many promotional tours for the highly anticipated movie, the...
Matt Kemp might not know who Tim McCarver is and a review of the Stockton/McCarver combo
It's good to be Matt Kemp these days. He makes millions playing a game that he is fantastic at and also today we learned that he might be blissfully unaware of the existence of Tim McCarver. I have no idea if Kemp was joking or not because this ten second clip is literally all the background I have on the situation because I had a different FOX game in my area. Anyways, here...
Erin Andrews is Leaving ESPN
Erin Andrews leaving ESPN. She did great work for us & we made an aggressive offer to keep her. We wish her the best on her next chapter.
— Mike Soltys (@espnmikes) June 29, 2012
Erin Andrews leaving ESPN. She did great work for us & we made an aggressive offer to keep her. We wish her the best on her next chapter
— Josh Krulewitz (@jksports) June 29, 2012
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Fox is pursuing Erin Andrews
Richard Deitsch of SI is reporting that Fox is heavily pursuing Erin Andrews to be a major part of their college football coverage, which has been expanded over the past two years. Andrews' ESPN contract expires at the end of this month, and rumors on a possible landing spot have been quiet in recent months. Fox will be airing eight games on its broadcast channel this year...
NFL to move 4:15 kickoff times to 4:25
The NFL announced yesterday that they would be moving the time of their late Sunday kickoff games from 4:15 ET to 4:25 ET. The move was enacted to allow viewers to watch 1 PM games to completion, as opposed to being dragged away from the game at critical moments near the end in order to watch the beginning of their local game.
The NFL did a little research and found that of the...
Winners and Losers from ESPN's NBA Draft coverage
As with any draft, it's custom to look at winners and losers. What teams did great and chose wisely and what teams maybe reached or made picks that just caused fans to scratch their heads. But, here at AA, our winners and losers are devoted to ESPN's draft coverage. What on-air personalities stood out as great value? Which on-air personalities weren't quite...
Daron Sutton was suspended... for wearing a suit
We tallked about the suspension of Diamondbacks announcer Daron Sutton on Wednesday, and the rumored suspension was because of insubordination, with a possible violation of the team's dress code as the issue. Well, Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic has confirmed that Sutton was suspended for issues related to the dress code... because he wants to wear a suit in the booth...
Full list of announcing assignments for 2012 Olympics
NBC has released the full list of on-air personalities for the London Olympics, now less than one month away. We have announcers for everything from stalwarts like track & field, basketball, and swimming to race walking, rhythmic gymnastics, and table tennis. The entire lists contains many familiar names to committed fans of the Olympic Games, but also a few absences from...
David Stern said he would have handled Rome interview differently
(Ed Note: This article appears courtesy Bloguin's national NBA blog, Crossover Chronicles. CC has quickly become one of the most respected NBA sites on the web and will be intently covering tonight's NBA Draft. Before David Stern gets booed off the stage tonight, he wisely backed off some of the statements in his controversial interview with Jim Rome.)
David Stern...
Dana Jacobsen's story of abuse is a courageous one
For most people in sports journalism not named Skip Bayless, Stephen A. Smith or Craig James, "don't become the story" is usually an important goal and one that's often adhered to. That's what's so notable about former ESPN anchor Dana Jacobson's revelation on her blog, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky story, that she was sexually abused by a babysitter...
Oops... CNN and Fox News report the wrong Supreme Court ruling
Yes, this is a sports media blog, but when two of the three cable news networks totally botch the most important Supreme Court ruling in many years, it's definitely worth a mention. This morning, the US Supreme Court upheld the heavily debated healthcare law of President Obama in a 5-4 decision. Except, in a "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment, both CNN and Fox News reported...
10 random sports ESPN should televise
Last night, ESPN2 televised the inaugural Slow Pitch Showdown softball game between the USA team and the USA Futures team as part of the network's coverage of the World Cup of Softball. Yes, such a thing exists, and it was shown across the country on ESPN2. Although the thought of televising a slow pitch softball game with tens of fans in the stands seems highly dubious at...
Italian paper apologizes for idiotic Mario Balotelli cartoon
Euro 2012 has been celebrated for the soccer on the pitch and the successful television ratings showing a big increase over four years ago. However, ugly incidents of racism have plagued the tournament. There have been racist tweets in England towards Ashley Cole and Ashley Young for missing penalties in a shootout loss vs Italy. Croatian fans have faced multiple probes for...
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