'Monday Night Football' all new to ESPN
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The calendar still said Monday, and Hank Williams Jr. still kicked things off by wondering if you were ready. That &#151; and the game itself, of course &#151; was about all that was familiar for the first telecast of "Monday Night Football" on ESPN, the cable network where the NFL moved its weeknight prime-time game after 3 1/2 decades on ABC.
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LOS ANGELES  - Thursday is the new   Tuesday for the new season that begins Monday night.
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Hey rook, welcome to the Pro Bowl. Now get me a chaise lounge. Or some shrimp. Or a mai tai. It's quite an achievement for an NFL rookie to get to the league's all-star game. After the veterans commend them for such strong debuts, though, the orders begin.
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Willis McGahee is excited to show his new teammates what he can do in his first "Monday Night Football" appearance when the Ravens face the Bengals.
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For an NFL devotee reading or hearing about a flexible Monday Night Football schedule, an option contained in the six-year, $8-billion contracts awarded to CBS and Fox on Tuesday, the concept appears quite intriguing.
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ABC Sports showed foresight this week when it opened &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; with Dr. Phil analyzing the Dolphins&#39; and the Patriots&#39; mascots.
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By MARC KATZ  Apparently, in NASCAR the "drugs" go into the equipment, not the athlete. Anyway, ESPN is re-entering the racing fray, and in a big way, signing Brent Musburger to front its presentation.
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ESPN will launch a new multimedia college sports initiative in March 2005 that includes a new 24-hour television network and content from ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.
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If ABC hoped to generate a little bit more buzz for "Monday Night Football" and "Desperate Housewives," its steamy intro to the Dallas-Philadelphia game sure did the trick.
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In a first for the U.S.  market, the struggling Mobile ESPN network is offering live and  complete football games for viewing on cell phones.
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High-definition television and the National Football League are going to be entwined this season. All ABC and ESPN games are scheduled to be broadcast in HD. Fox plans to do as many as six games each week in HD, and CBS will do three. And each Wednesday and Thursday at 9 p.m., the NFL Network will have a 60-minute condensed ...
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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, ESPN announced yesterday it will be sending yet another all-sports channel your way (its seventh, if you&#39;re counting), this one dedicated to college sports.
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I hope your Thanksgiving dinner was more enjoyable than the two NFL games I was forced to watch. Three of the worst teams in the NFL struggled on national television and the entire country had to witness their substandard play.
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This week&#39;s bandwagon-crisis quota was reached when Monday Night Football crossed the linen of scrimmage. Now in its 35th season, MNF also dragged us past the neutral zone and into the partisan box.
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Clear Channel, Cincinnati. To the hypocrisy of the NFL, a bird comes your way. A promo airs before &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; featuring Nicolette Sheridan from the &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; show and Terrell Owens of the Eagles.
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SAN FRANCISCO If you&#39;ve seen the new crop of ads for NBC&#39;s upcoming season of Sunday Night Football, you may have noticed a heavy emphasis on the &quot;Sunday night&quot; part, but not so much the &quot;football.&quot; That&#39;s not an oversight. The strategy is based on extensive research conducted last year that shows weekend sports viewing is for many people more about the social interaction than the game.
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com Staff | November 18, 2004. Promise weâre spending no more than 27 seconds on this and moving on, but I just canât believe the outrage out there over ABCâs little stunt opening Monday Night Football.