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February 28, 2008
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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 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
August 10, 2006
Kevin Beane |
Confessions of a College Football Glutton Admit it -- this could be you! |
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
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. |
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. |
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
June 16, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Madden Moves to NBC The network shows it's serious about its new football deal. |
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. |
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. |
Sports Central
November 10, 2005
Seth Berkman |
ESPN: Every Sports Person's Nightmare Too bad there is no competition for ESPN, they are run by media giant Disney and will be going nowhere soon. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
August 14, 2002
Frank Deford |
Our troubadours Sadly, the era of "the voice of" is coming to an end. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
DirecTV Touchdown The NFL continues to load up on broadcasting contracts. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Were You Ready for Some Football? Disney kicks off another season of Monday Night Football -- on a Thursday. For ABC, football means big business. |
Sports Central
August 16, 2012
Kevin Beane |
TBS's Grand Experiment For the first time in MLB television history, the commentary will be covered by a woman, Michele Smith (well, partially covered -- John Smoltz will be there too, along with Ernie Johnson doing play-by-play). |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football Is All About the Hikes The NFL wants major networks to pay more for content. |
Salon.com
October 12, 1999
Gary Kaufman |
Vin Scully For 50 years, an Irish redhead from the Bronx has been the gold standard for baseball announcers. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
ESPN Turns 25 24/7 sports programming turns 25 -- and the world will never be the same. |
Searcher
December 2010
Irene McDermott |
The Gridiron on the Web -- Football Online Am I doomed to be shut out from the world of football forever? No! The internet has arrived to save the day with zillions of sites to explain and celebrate American football. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
ABC's Final Kickoff Are you ready for some football? You won't find it on ABC anymore. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing for the network. |
Wired
September 2005
Frank Rose |
ESPN Thinks Outside the Box Web, WiMax, cell phones, and more: The sports powerhouse wants to be on every screen in your life. At stake is the future of the biggest cash cow in the entire Walt Disney Company. The BBC is another station aggressively making the digital leap. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
The Business Of Sports Commentators If you can talk a better sports game than you can play, you might just have a shot at a career as a sports commentator. |
