Tv Sports: Gumbel Is Precisely the Problem for the NFL Network
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Bryant Gumbel is struggling to learn what he should be doing after the two seasons and 16 games for the NFL Network.
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Internet buzz, the head coach angrily blasting a player, fans upset over the direction of the team and a rookie quarterback making his first NFL start against a team he grew up watching. That's just the Tennessee Titans. Now mix in the Dallas Cowboys and the traveling T.O. circus, and what seemed like just another NFL matchup now features the kind of drama and attention not even soap operas generate.
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The NFL Network suffers from growing pains as disputes continue between the league and three of the countryÃÂ¿s largest cable companies.
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NEW YORK -- The NFL has offered one free week of its network programming to two cable TV operators who do not carry the channel in hopes of breaking a deadlock.
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Darren Sharper is upset about the NFL's crackdown on pass interference.
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By Alan Pergament  Things have gone so badly for fourth-place NBC in the last few seasons that it had to lob a Hail Mary pass and make a deal with the National Football League.
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What a difference a decade and a pair of Super Bowl championships makes. It was only a decade ago when the Patriots regularly drew the bottom-tier announcers at whichever network was airing their games.
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The NFL made him look inferior. His old school wanted him to stand in line and take a number. The more things change, the more Steve Spurrier remains the same.
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By Mark McGuire, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 17--CBS dominated, NBC rebounded. The NFL Network starting showing live games, even though cable subscribers in this and many other markets can't get it.
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No lead is big enough. No distance for an opponent is too far. No scenario is too far-fetched. Nothing is safe. Somehow, some way over the past two seasons, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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By Barry Horn, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 14--The NFL Network will disappear from Time Warner Cable systems on Friday, said Gary Underwood, the cable provider's spokesman for North Texas.
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The NFL may not be all about television, but a lot of it is. Start with the NFL Network's presence, which is impossible not to notice here.
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By John Ryan, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 14--The NFL Network's big legal fight is elsewhere, since it's under contract with Comcast and the channel is available on digital cable here.
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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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The NFL Network will be broadcasting the Patriotsâ pursuit of regular-season perfection to television viewers who are aware of the channel largely because they cannot see it.
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Here's a starting point in talking about the NFL and TV: The league only plays 256 regular-season games. Or, to state it a different way, the NFL has a TV inventory of 256 regular-season games.
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By SETH SUTEL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK  The NFL Network has rejected two proposals from Time Warner Cable that would have allowed New York area viewers to see the Texas Bowl football game between Rutgers and Kansas State.  The NFL Network is carrying the Dec.