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BEIJING -- Marat Safin managed to do something the other top seeds at the China Open didn&#39;t: stay alive. The top four seeds will be missing from the semifinals following early exits for Spaniards Carlos Moya
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When, where: Tonight, 7:30, at Blacksburg, Va. TV: ESPN.
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By MARK SCHMIEDEL; Journal Sports Writer  Auto racing analyst Allen Bestwick has made the jump from NBC to ESPN now that the all-sports network has taken over NASCAR coverage.
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ESPN Drops Yahoo Contextual Ads for Quigo AdSonar Brian Morrissey at AdWeek reports that ESPN has decided on dropping the Yahoo powered contextual advertising (think high profile Yahoo Publisher Network ads) from its ESPN.com site. According to Brian&#8217;s coverage, ESPN has decided on selling the advertising placements itself. ESPN.com will begin using the Quigo AdSonar system to [...]
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Walt Disney Co.'s  ESPN sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile phone service in a deal with Sprint Corp.  intended to lure new users with sports news sent over a next-generation network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Fox and ESPN will be vying for racing fans' attention this weekend when the NASCAR season kicks off. ESPN will cover tomorrow's Busch race, and Fox will cover Sunday's Daytona 500, the first race in the Nextel Cup series.
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Twenty-five years ago this Tuesday, a brash startup cable channel with a strange name began broadcasting. Its goal: Provide sports programming 24 hours a day. The concept behind ESPN was solid, but the execution was shaky in those early days of bouncing a signal off a satellite from a half-built building in a muddy field in then-rural Bristol, Conn. Today, ...
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TODAY'S EVENTS TV RADIO  Baseball  4 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Atlanta WGN  7 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Angels FSN 710, 830  Pro Football  4 p.m. Minnesota at Washington ESPN  7:15 p.m.
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TODAY AUTO RACING 1:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Nextel Cup Ford 400 qualifying at Homestead, Fla., Speed Channel 3 p.m. -- NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Ford 200 at Homestead, Fla., Speed Channel COLLEGE BASKETBALL/MEN 5 p.m. -- Marist Classic at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Northeastern vs. Birmingham Southern, WRBB-FM (104.9) 7 p.m. -- Coaches vs. Cancer Classic third-place game at New York, ESPN2 7:30 ...
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The pairings for "BracketBusters," ESPN's concept of giving mid-major schools more exposure -- were announced this week. Fourteen games will be televised over the weekend of Feb. 16-17.
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The Associated Press just made news. It wants to stop making news. Good for the AP. Bad for the BCS. The news is out that the Associated Press has decided to not let its weekly football poll serve as part
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The Boston College men's basketball team will make its second of four ESPN appearances this month after school officials announced yesterday that Saturday's home game against Syracuse, originally scheduled to be a 7:30 p.m. regional telecast on Channel 56, will be carried by ESPN at 6 p.m.
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On Jan. 5, two high school postseason games will be played, each intended to show off a passel of future college football stars. The Army version is in its eighth year, ESPNâs is new.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, these arenât your fatherâs Seattle Mariners. The news continued to get better in Mariner Land on Thursday, with ESPN first reporting that Seattle has signed coveted third baseman
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Television: ESPN2. Dave O&#39;Brien (play-by-play), Len Elmore (color analysis) and Stacey Dales-Schuman (sidelines) call the action.
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Bill Parcells is returning to ESPN, the network he left before signing on to coach the Dallas Cowboys.
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ESPN is expanding its coverage of the European Champions League, streaming all 125 games of this year's tournament on its Internet sites for $9.95 per game.