With NFL on, NBC sports redoes web look
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NBC Sports, a fringe player in the online sports market, said Tuesday it redesigned its Web site and bought a leading fantasy sports site to attract more advertising revenue by offering original football-related content and its own fantasy games.
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By Carolyn Shapiro, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 1--Hey, all you local Redskins fans: You can now watch your NFL team in high-definition on cable TV.   After at least two years of talks, cable television provider Cox Communications Inc.
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Tiki Barber will work for NBC next year after spending most of the 2006 NFL season entertaining bids from various networks for jobs in both news and sports.
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In its 35th season, ABC's "Monday Night Football" is still trying to regain some of its old uniqueness.
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The National Football League plans to  broadcast Thursday and Saturday games live over the Internet to  some customers of Verizon Communications Inc.  and  DirecTV Group Inc , NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said  on Wednesday.
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For those who tune in to the Super  Bowl just for the commercials, there's now a way to watch them  online shortly after they are shown, without having to put up  with all that football in between.
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It&#39;s November, so the networks must be in search of ratings. &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; played along this week with a sexed-up skit - a punt straight out of the old-school send ups of sports stereotyping.
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The major U.S. professional sports  leagues are looking to their digital assets, especially Web  sites and television networks, to drive growth.
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Yahoo&#39;s Spartan home page will look even less flashy soon, thanks to an upcoming makeover. The Web media giant offered a preview of its redesigned front page Tuesday (www.
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NBC Sports and Web broadcaster   MediaZone will announce on Wednesday a joint Internet sports   channel offering viewers of a broader array of sports events   worldwide, from rugby to big-wave surfing.
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The National Football League has run into a granite wall in its battle against several major cable companies.
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One week into its coverage of the Athens Olympics, television network NBC has mounted a comeback in viewership worthy of U.S. gold-medal gymnasts, reversing an early slump to post ratings well ahead of four years ago.
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Dick Ebersol was reflecting on a major decision from eight years ago. It was after the 1997 NFL season, and NBC was ending its 3 1/2-decade affiliation with the league.
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Saturday's potentially  historic football game between the New England Patriots and the  New York Giants will be simulcast on both NBC and CBS under an  unusual deal hammered out by the NFL Network.
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Internet powerhouse Yahoo has given its popular Web site a facelift to highlight some of the features that the company has been improving during the past year.
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It&#39;s big news whenever the television networks throw $8 billion on the table, and even moreso when it&#39;s being thrown at the NFL, the Halliburton of sports.
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By DAVE GOLDBERG  NEW YORK - Tiki Barber will work for NBC next year after spending most of the 2006 NFL season entertaining bids from various networks for jobs in both news and sports.