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Sports Central August 13, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
New NFL TV Rights Could Get Interesting Rumors suggest that Disney might be considering moving Monday Night Football to ESPN. It will not necessarily be the end of the world. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top TV Network Contracts Televised sporting events have huge audiences. The bigger the game, the bigger the audience. In America, no game is bigger than the Super Bowl. More than half of all the television sets in the U.S. are tuned in to the NFL's championship game. |
Sports Central April 10, 2008 Kevin Beane |
The Sports Announcer Column (Pt. 2) A look at solid sports announcers worthy of wider praise, even if they are not worthy of the Pantheon. |
Sports Central January 9, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Network Rolls Out With Bait and Switch On January 1, 2009, Major League Baseball launched its long-awaited Major League Baseball Network on major cable broadcast providers throughout U.S. television markets. |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Robert Eberhard |
Spending Money to Make Money With the NFL Various NFL partners are responsible for games every week and will benefit from the league's popularity. |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Lowry & Hyman |
The Making of ESPN's Baseball Deal More than two years of talks between the ESPN and Major League Baseball offer a telling glimpse into the complexity of today's big-money sports. |
Sports Central April 18, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Pat Summerall, 1930-2013 In 1974, someone at CBS made the very canny and astute move of moving Pat Summerall to play-by-play. All he would do with that is become the standard by which all announcers would be judged over the next 30 years. |
Sports Central April 7, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Sports Television: Past and Present When I was a kid in the 1980s, sports on television was worlds different than it is now. |
Sports Central March 13, 2014 Kevin Beane |
Thoughts on Old Announcers Being Sent to Pasture Sometimes a network feels their hand is forced as sports broadcasters get up in years and their booth performance suffers. I see two flaws with that, however. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2003 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football's End Around Monday Night Football puts an end to eight years of losing ground on the viewership front. |
Fast Company April 2008 Will Leitch |
MLB's Digital Dominance As the world scrambles to master online video, crusty old baseball already has it figured out. |
Home Theater October 23, 2002 HT Staff |
HD Sports on ABC, ESPN High-definition television will get a big push this season and next with sports programming from ABC and ESPN. |
Sports Central September 5, 2014 Corrie Trouw |
A Game of Numbers Baseball is dying. Haven't you heard? |
Sports Central August 16, 2011 Paul Foeller |
From Spring Training to the Fall Classic It may not be the way the baseball purists want to see it, and it may put a dent in yearly revenue, but a shortened MLB regular season will eventually happen. |
Sports Central September 23, 2010 Kevin Beane |
The Best and Worst Sports Websites Let's get right to it. Here are the sites I love, followed by a couple that I cannot stand. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
The Business of Sports Scheduling Here is a look at how the complex task of scheduling is accomplished and how much money is at stake. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2011 Jonathan Berr |
Rupert Murdoch's Nightmare of a World Series No Yankees or Red Sox mean fewer viewers. |
AskMen.com August 6, 2003 Matthew Simpson |
Top 10: Legendary Sportscasters They toy with emotions, making heroes out of players and entertaining the masses. With that, here are the top 10 legendary sportscasters according to their popularity and staying power. |
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Grover & Lowry |
A Ball ESPN Couldn't Afford To Drop Yes, ESPN paid plenty for Monday Night Football, but the deal may keep potential rivals, particularly Comcast Corp. and Fox Sports, at bay. |
Salon.com November 1, 2002 Allen Barra |
Why nobody watched the World Series Blame it on late games and regionalism -- not the great baseball. And has anybody checked the NBA ratings lately? |
Sports Central September 25, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
No Football, Ladies To say women don't know football is just idiotic sexism. But play-by-play on a football game needs a man with a commanding voice. Someone with the pipes to match the barbarism on the field |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
New Sheet of Ice for the NHL Comcast could win big with this expensive bet: trying to build its OLN (formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network) programming. |
The Motley Fool December 5, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's Sporting Chance The Mouse House expands internationally with a U.K. sports-related acquisition. Clearly, Disney knows how to play both offense and defense. It seems it's got plans to score abroad these days. |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Frederik Balfour |
Slicing And Dicing In Asia Field hockey in India, baseball in Taiwan - ESPN and partner STAR Sports are luring viewers all around the region with its new niche programming. |
Sports Central March 17, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Remember the Expos A retrospective of the Expos history in Montreal as they make their new home in Washington, DC. |
AskMen.com May 14, 2003 Arash Madani |
The Financial Expansion Of The MLB A year after "contraction" was the buzzword in Major League Baseball, the latest trend is not to diminish the game, but to expand it. |
Sports Central August 28, 2011 Andrew Jones |
Andruw Jones is Underrated, Yet Disappointing By the time Andruw Jones ends his career, he'll most likely have over 2000 hits, just shy of 500 home runs, 10 Gold Gloves, five all-sStar appearances, and 10 years of playoff experience. |
CIO April 15, 2002 Daniel J. Horgan |
Covering All the Bases Inside each of ESPN's massive trucks that follow Major League Baseball teams around the country is a fully equipped production studio... |
Sports Central November 8, 2012 Kevin Beane |
Ranking the Networks I am a sports fan, and I actually like all of these channels. I say this because I don't want the programming directors of the networks low on the list to jump out their 45th-floor windows. |
Sports Central July 17, 2008 Kevin Beane |
The Many Sins of Joe Buck I hear his name and start muttering to myself. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football's Double Reverse NFL fans, it's almost time to adjust your remote-control preferences. Come next year, Disney's ABC will hand off the Monday Night Football franchise to its ESPN subsidiary, while ESPN will be handing off its Sunday night gridiron contests to rival General Electric's NBC. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2003 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Monday Night Foolball Disney, the parent company behind ABC and ESPN is trying to get the National Football League to grant it the luxury of picking between two different games to broadcast nationally on Mondays. |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: Future MLB Hall of Famers Baseball today may be tainted by steroid allegations, but it's also filled with players who are among the best ever. Check out our list of top 10 future MLB Hall of Famers. |
Sports Central September 10, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Is the Braves' Dynasty Valid? Or are the they baseball's version of football's 49ers? Both have had a string of successful regular season records, only to fail (usually) in the postseason. |
Sports Central March 12, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare MLB and two of its two major league teams cash in on public entitlements, courtesy of the City of New York. |
Home Theater March 23, 2003 |
ESPN Pushes HDTV HDTV is poised to take off like a rocket, believes Bryan Burns, ESPN's vice president of strategic business planning and development. His network has made a big push with high-def programming over the past year, and is pushing it even harder this year. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Baseball Beans the Cable Guys Cable's iN Demand group cries foul after striking out with a choice baseball offering. |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Susan B. Shor |
Baseball for bimbos Apparently, commissioner Bud Selig has just figured out that wives, moms and other female significant others have decision-making power in their families. |
Sports Central October 14, 2003 Louis Llovio |
Even in its Shining Hour, MLB Manages to Screw Things Up World Series scheduling could be a fiasco |
Sports Central February 28, 2008 Kevin Beane |
The Sports Announcer Column (Pt. 1) If you value a voice that provides good background music to the game, here are three of the best. |
Sports Central April 23, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
The New "Monday Night Football" Relocating "Monday Night Football" to cable television diminishes the institution to a cable show. There's a reason why ESPN didn't get the Super Bowl. |
Sports Central January 15, 2009 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Reviews the Networks Grading the sports channels and the sports bureaus of the major over-the-air networks. |
Sports Central October 4, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October. |
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Emma Haak |
Baseball By The Billions (Of Dollars) How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer -- and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what's driving Baseball Inc. |
Sports Central September 7, 2005 Matt Thomas |
Stretch Run is Full of Hidden Gems As the sun sets on the 2005 Major League Baseball season, a little retrospection is appropriate. |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Sports Central May 31, 2008 Ben Feller |
Why Baseball Needs Replay Now The main reason for replay is to get the calls correct. Another is for baseball to start to shy away from its old school image. |
Salon.com August 22, 2001 Allen Barra |
Stop bad-mouthing baseball Sentimental sports columnists moan about its demise, even though the facts don't support their arguments... |
Salon.com October 16, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff picking, but not grinning Our writer boldly holds forth on the Yankees, the Mariners and the most hideous uniforms in baseball, and asks himself, "How many times can you be wrong about one team?" |
InternetNews July 12, 2005 Roy Mark |
MLB.com: Online All-Star As players take the field for the annual game tonight, the online arm of baseball hopes to see annual growth of 30 to 50 percent. MLB.com is running up impressive numbers selling content, tickets and memorabilia. |