The Media Drop

Just caught this news over at Fool.com where Rick Aristotle Munarriz details Comcast’s announcement that it would offer “as many as two live National Hockey League games from [their customers’] computers daily.”
This is awesome, as being a non-Comcast television customer, but a Comcast broadband customer, it gives me the best of both worlds, if you […]

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Last week, Joe Jaffe wrote about how ESPN’s television programming might be reaching the end of the line - in line extension, that is. You know, like when you’re in the grocery store, and you see the “new innovation” by your favorite pickle maker, and wonder what the heck they were thinking. It’s more akin […]

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In other college football news today (seems to be a trend, for some reason), I’m sorry to point out that former ESPN college football personality Adrian Karsten was found dead at his home Friday, in what appears to be a suicide. If you’re not familiar with his name, you can see a photo of Karsten […]

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SI.com’s John Walters has the skinny on the departure of college football analyst Trev Alberts from ESPN’s programming this week. Turns out that Alberts was displeased with how he was regarded as a personality on the network, which by viewing his presence on screen once or twice you could tell he wasn’t the top banana.
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In Friday’s LA Daily News, Tom Hoffarth informs about the way that ESPN’s SportsCenter program will be handling their anchors going forward, since there seems to be a bit of confusion on which faces will be seen when.
He writes that Dan Patrick and Fred Hickman will be on the 6pm (Eastern) SC, John Anderson and […]

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Costa Tsiokos calls NBC’s move to get the Sunday Night Football package starting in 2006 “pathetic” as it reflects on television network competition. As in, look what they had to do just to get in the game against what ABC was putting up to the plate with Desperate Housewives and “Extreme Makeover Home Edition.”

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SPORTSbyBROOKS has a story up about ESPN College Gameday guy Lee Corso’s appearance on a Dallas area radio program recently, only to have it end in a very strange fashion. During the show, one of the hosts, Dan McDowell, said something about Corso posing nude for a magazine, making a quip about Corso’s college […]

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The Chicago Maroon’s Sean Ahmed makes a plea for the days of yore on ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” when Dan Patrick and now-MSNBCer Keith Olbermann were the tag team champs. Strangely enough, this is a topic or commentary that I could read eight different ways in a week and would still continue to think the horse […]

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The Associated Press reported on Thursday that CBS had made deals where cstv.com and ncaasports.com would be carrying online streams of NCAA basketball’s tournament games, coming soon. This would be for “out-of-market” games, with blackouts being put in place for games shown on the air in the market of the web user.

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While I don’t expect everyone in the media to pronounce everyone’s name correctly 100% of the time, it gets a little frustrating when 100% of the people in the media are pronouncing one athlete’s name wrong 100% of the time. This is the case with this past year’s media darling from the tennis world, […]

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