Archive for February, 2007

NHL on NBC analyst Brett Hull had some interesting words on NHL television coverage. Hull wants … a hockey version of the network’s one-hour pregame football show, Football Night in America … during a typical [...]

These are good for a laugh. Mike Celizic: “NBA has become a big, fat dud“, MSNBC.com (lead story on the sports section).Kevin Hagstrom: “NBA games latest form of torture“, The Badger Herald.John Eggerton: “The NBA [...]

College basketball beat them all on Sunday (with the exception of NASCAR, that is). The #1 and #2 teams in the nation battled, and the ratings were impressive. Buckeyes/Badgers drew a 3.1 overnight on CBS, [...]

Despite NBA.com still listing the game as not on television (and despite the fact that neither the Detroit Pistons nor Miami Heat websites list the game as airing on ESPN), an ESPN press release confirms [...]

In an article on his Edge of Sports website, Dave Zirin takes on and takes down the sports world’s version of Uncle Ruckus — Jason Whitlock. “I didn’t speak out when you called the great [...]

Thanks to a year of extremely high ratings, college football will now be placed on an NFL-like pedestal on ESPN. College Football Live will join NFL Live on weekday afternoons starting next college football season, [...]

Elliotte Friedman, host of the CFL on CBC, wrote this response to my Video of the Day post in his “From the Pressbox” blog. To be fair, this blogger isn’t the only person to raise [...]

In the first of what will likely be several changes to the NBA TV schedule, ESPN has removed the March 2 Detroit at Miami game from its NBA Friday slate. Two games under .500 and [...]

Versus is an unmitigated disaster. Formerly known as OLN, the Comcast-owned network lost its entire identity in an ill-fated attempt to compete with ESPN. There was once a period in 2005 when it looked like [...]

NASCAR’s second race of the season typically does very well. In 2005, the California race drew a 7.9 rating, and last year, the race drew a 7.4. This year, I’m predicting a 7.0 rating for [...]