SportsNewser Tonight's Dick Vitale Gala A Huge Draw in Sports World By Cam Martin on May. 20, 2011 - 10:06 AM Tonight’s 6th annual Dick Vitale Gala at the Ritz Carlton in Sarasota, Florida, is attracting huge names in the sports world, including athletes, coaches and commentators. Among the well-known faces expected to drop by the e ...
SportsNewser Friday's NCAA Ratings Up 17 Percent From 2010 By Marcus Vanderberg on Mar. 26, 2011 - 11:39 AM Friday’s coverage of the NCAA Tournament regional semi-finals on TBS and CBS delivered an overnight household rating/share of 7.6/14, up 14 percent from a 6.5/12 from last year’s CBS Sports coverage, according to Niels ...
People | SportsNewser Hope for the 2011 NFL Season? By Noah Davis on Mar. 2, 2011 - 2:05 PM Maybe there won’t be a football work stoppage after all. (Yeah right.) U.S. District Judge David Doty ruled in favor of the Players Union in the so-called “war chest” case. The judge decried that league executive ...
People | SportsNewser ESPN Announces 14 Big East College Football Telecasts By Marcus Vanderberg on Feb. 25, 2011 - 4:03 PM ESPN announced 14 of its 2011 Big East Conference college football telecasts on Friday, highlighted by two non-conference games featuring LSU and Notre Dame. All eight Big East teams will be featured at least once in the 14 games ...
People | SportsNewser Shawn Kemp Comes Out Of Hibernation To Rip Blake Griffin's Final Dunk By Marcus Vanderberg on Feb. 23, 2011 - 9:05 PM There’s at least one person who wasn’t impressed with Blake Griffin’s dunk over a 2011 KIA Optima at the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Former dunking machine Shawn Kemp called out Griffin for his dunk in the finals on K ...
People | SportsNewser | TV Biz ESPN Set To Invade Texas For Super Bowl XLV By Marcus Vanderberg on Jan. 26, 2011 - 2:55 PM ESPN will have more than 30 on-air commentators in Texas when the network kicks off its week-long Super Bowl XLV coverage on Monday. Sundance Square in Ft. Worth, Texas, will be ESPN’s home away from home next week as they p ...
SportsNewser Sugar Bowl Earns 8.4 Overnight Rating By Marcus Vanderberg on Jan. 5, 2011 - 4:42 PM Ohio State’s 31-26 win over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl earned a 8.4 overnight rating on ESPN, the second-highest overnight rating for college football in the network’s history. Last night’s overnight is down just ...
SportsNewser NBC Sports to Air Kentucky Derby Through 2015 By Alex Weprin on Oct. 7, 2010 - 2:38 PM NBC Sports and Churchill Downs have reached an agreement in principle to keep the Kentucky Derby on the broadcast network through 2015. The deal also includes rights to the Kentucky Oaks, which is held the Friday before the Derby. ...