Football Broadcasters Make Real Thing Look More Like Video Games
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CHICAGO - That UFO you might see whizzing over Thursday night&#39;s Florida State-North Carolina State football game is not just a camera - it&#39;s the link between televised football and the video games they seek to mimic.
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NASCAR, college football, college tennis, full-contact poker, jacks and kickball might draw higher TV ratings than NHL games, but there are people who miss the game today.
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All right, let&#39;s pretend for a moment that you are announcing, producing or directing Saturday&#39;s telecast of the Heat-Lakers game.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The new fake field is electric green; think Jay Gatsby lawn party. It will look spectacular on your high-definition plasma television. It'll look even better if you are sitting on the 40-yard line when the Patriots and Bears kick off this afternoon.
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Why do we even need radio helmets and Wi-Fi on the sidelines? Tech has countless uses but please keep the geeks off the gridiron.
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The line between real and simulated sports continues to blur with Electronic Arts's 15-year deal to incorporate ESPN's brand and personalities in its video games. -washingtonpost.com
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Don't be too dazzled by the new-and-improved model of the Bowl Championship Series coming to a newspaper or TV outlet near you. It will have to go back to the dealer soon enough.
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New data gives a peek into how the players are posed to do.
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By Michael Hiestand  CBS' NCAA men's basketball tournament coverage is one of the more unchanging formulas in TV sports, presumably delighting viewers who like their sports served straight, rather than as show biz.    But it could be tweaked.
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Sometimes you have to wonder what the geniuses at the major network sports divisions are imbibing or inhaling when they make critical decisions about what we watch.
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Modern marvels like game consoles and T-shirts that make air guitarists' phantom riffs audible further blur the line between the real and virtual worlds. Commentary by Momus.
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By Michael Hiestand  Usually, TV sports is beholden to a factor beyond its control: whether the games end up being compelling. NFL pregame shows are different. They're a sort of junior version of the network evening battles as men in (TV) makeup go mano a mano and somebody finishes first.
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The Wayne Rooney incident at the weekend has brought into question once again the use of television playbacks to incriminate sportsman.
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The sound contradicted the image. Sure, Paul Atallah was watching a football game on TV, and sure, it was 1 o'clock in the morning, when the senses can get mischievous. But the thuds he was hearing didn't match the action he was seeing. Even the most ferocious tackle doesn't echo like that; as a longtime football player, Atallah knew that ...
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John Madden admits he's a football guy. He loves to talk X's and O's, or debate a quarterback matchup.
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Don't focus on the wrong numbers, like most TV announcers do.
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The same instant-replay technology designed to shield football from human error has created a new level of vulnerability.