Steelers-Jags Lead to Record ESPN Rating
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NEW YORK - ESPN's Monday night NFL game was watched by more viewers than any show in cable TV history except a 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot.
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Peyton Manning had a lot of witnesses to his soggy super win, with the estimated 93.2 million viewers representing the second most-watched Super Bowl broadcast ever.
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Willie Parker ran for a team record 223-yards to help the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers crush the Cleveland Browns 27-7 on Thursday, keeping the home team's slim playoff hopes alive.
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Twenty-one and not counting, thanks to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh took care of the New England Patriots&#39; NFL record winning streak on Sunday, registering
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Shaq versus Kobe drew the highest rating south of the border in six years for a regular-season NBA game. The overnight rating for the Miami Heat&#39;s 104-102 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on ABC on Christmas Day was 8.0.
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Editor&#39;s note: ESPN senior NFL writer John Clayton&#39;s weekly &quot;First And 10&quot; column takes you around the league with a look at the best game of the week followed by primers for 10 other games.
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NEW YORK  - When San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's career home-run record, ESPN and Fox Sports aim to bring the occasion to viewers live nationwide.
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The New York-New England  matchup bodes well for the Super Bowl ratings on February 3,  judging by the results of Sunday night's overtime NFC  Championship Game.
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They have dispatched the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles to stake a claim as the NFL&#39;s top team. Now the Pittsburgh Steelers could become the team everybody wants to beat.
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NEW YORK -- Whether they're rooting for him or against him, fans might get to see a lot of Barry Bonds on television. Fox and ESPN are discussing the possibility of expanding coverage of Bonds as he approaches Hank Aaron's home run mark of 755, anticipating viewers will tune in _ out of admiration,...
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Pittsburgh, PA -- Ben Roethlisberger passed for 183 yards and two touchdowns, Hines Ward scored twice and the Pittsburgh Steelers rolled to a convincing 27-3 victory over Philadelphia for their second straight win against an undefeated opponent.
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Fox's broadcast of the  BCS National Championship college football game dominated the  ratings Monday night.
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The undefeated New England Patriots aren't taking the only shot at history this weekend. There's a strong chance that this could be the most-watched Super Bowl ever
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Saturday night's Game 1 World Series telecast returned a 13.7 national rating (25 share), the highest number for a Game 1 since the 1999 opener of the Yankees-Braves Series delivered a 14.2 (26 share) on NBC. It was the highest-rated World Series Game 1 for Fox since it began broadcasting baseball in 1996 (NBC retained the Series in 1997 and ...
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Disney&#39;s ABC and ESPN outlets will likely grab big ratings with a Detroit-Indiana/Miami-Los Angeles Lakers NBA doubleheader Christmas Day, which says something about what can sell sports.
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Fox swept prime-time television  ratings last week, thanks to Sunday's broadcast of the New York  Giants' dramatic victory in Super Bowl XLII, the most-watched  sporting event in U.S. history.
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Shaq vs. Kobe drew the highest rating in six years for a regular-season NBA game.