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Microsoft Corp. has added college basketball and other ESPN programming to the growing lineup of video content available for download to its Xbox 360 video game console.
The first two rounds of the Masters are moving to ESPN. The network will televise the Thursday and Friday action when the tournament tees off in April, Augusta National chairman Billy Payne announced Wednesday.
Joe Theismann, dropped as an analyst on Monday Night Football, says he's been offered a job doing college football for the ESPN/ABC networks.
The jockeying to bring the most popular names from TV and the Web to cell phones produced another exclusive deal Thursday with Verizon Wireless nabbing a multiyear agreement to offer ESPN's flashy feed of sports scores, newscasts and video highlights on the tiny screen.
ESPN acquired national TV rights to the Arena Football League on Tuesday and also will have a minority stake in the 19-team indoor league.
Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.
The planned shutdown of the Mobile ESPN cell phone service marks the first major bust in a rush of specialized wireless ventures targeting niche audiences they contend are underserved by the Cingulars and Verizons of the world.
ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons will file reports from the Minnesota Twins game in Boston on Wednesday night, returning to work three months after a brain aneurysm.
ESPN is trying to bring its pay-for-access model from cable TV to the Internet.
Harold Reynolds is out at ESPN, reportedly fired from his job as a baseball analyst.
ABC will televise 12 of the 64 games at this year's World Cup, including the final on July 9 and the first-round matchup between the United States and Italy on June 17.
His playing career apparently over, Tino Martinez is joining ESPN as an analyst on "Baseball Tonight."
ESPN's new ombudsman scolded basketball analyst Jay Bilas for a "Brokeback Mountain" reference one viewer found offensive. He said Kenny Mayne should have turned down "Dancing With the Stars." He wrote that it "boggles the mind" that the network would make reality shows with Barry Bonds and Bobby Knight.
Do you believe in switching networks? Yes! Al Michaels appears headed to NBC after ESPN hired former quarterback Joe Theismann, Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Tirico as its Monday night broadcast crew
Thomas Dold of Germany beat defending men's champion Rudolf Reitberger by 17 seconds Tuesday to win the annual Empire State Building Run-up, climbing 86 floors in 10 minutes, 19 seconds.
Ok. I cannot let this one go bye without mentioning. I was sitting reading sports articles on my laptop this afternoon.
According to ESPN, Joe Girardi has been offered a contract to become the new manager of the New York Yankees.
Sports coup: Rick Reilly to leave Sports Illustrated for ESPN in June.
Anyways, the computers don't like OU's schedule too much, but apparently loves Kansas and South Florida, so I did some figuring. I found out what the ranking was of the opponents of OU, Kansas, and S. Florida and averaged them out and here are the results:
Friday Randy Couture called ESPN to explain why he quit the UFC and ESPN uses Dana White's quote about Randy's Manager to make White look bad.
What's been discretely occurring beyond the public eye in Las Vegas for decades is about to be revealed to the masses: bad golfers with big egos and bank rolls putting up millions against each other on the golf course.
Check out the new ESPN.com video beta - they've stopped the popup page and put the video onto an easier-to-navigate (and whitespace-aplenty) page. They're also making videos available for embedding, a la YouTube, by proving the embed code right next to the video.
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Max Kellerman's ESPN radio show is one the best on terrestrial radio.
How do you counterprogram against the NFL? Its a question that has one network revisiting its strategy. This year, ESPNs plan against NBCs Sunday Night Football will not include NBA games, after the network scheduled three NBA games on Sunday nights last November.
Apparently ESPN hired themselves a 10 year old analyst. He's still better than Chris Berman.
ESPN.com joins the Sharing Web by offering embeddable content.
Keith Olbermann, the sardonic wit of primetime MSNBC, his returned to sports. He's now hosting the NFL shows on NBC. He's pretty good at it. In my h----- opinion.
I remember one of the first stories I ever wrote about advertising, five years ago, came out of a speech by Google CEO Eric Schmidt telling advertisers to "stop scaring users" with intrusive ads. That message fell on deaf ears, obviously.
I received an e-mail Wednesday night from a friend saying his wife has been kidding about her passion for the Orioles all these years. That'll happen when your team suffers one of the worst losses in history.
Deep down in all your red hearts, all of you Gunners are wondering if Arsenal is going to be good enough for the challenge of this season. While even teams like Fulham have broken the bank, all we have bought have been relative unknowns.
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5. The Biopsy. Recognize symptoms, find tumor, cut out tumor. It doesn't matter what you get back. The important thing is you don't have cancer anymore. Or in the case of the 2007 Athletics, Milton Bradley.
Kentucky's Andre Woodson is the nations number one pre-season QB according to ESPN.
On ESPN Pardon the Interruption tonight, the boys had a story that Barry Bonds is considering suing Curt Schilling over remarks Schilling made regarding Bonds' alleged steroid use.
First Hank Williams Jr. asked NFL fans if they were ready for some football. Then the Black Eyed Peas told basketball fans to get it started for the NBA playoffs.
Beckham's debut with the Galaxy in a loss to DC United doubled the rating usually gotten.
Beckham plays in Washington, DC.
BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics started filling in their roster around their three All Stars on Thursday, signing center Scot Pollard and guard Eddie House. The two join Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce as the Celtics try to end their 21-year championship drought.
Coming next month, ESPN will relaunch its video site ESPN360 with plans to stream 2,000 live events over 12 months — up from 200 last year.
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