The naked truth about pro sports, television
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The term âthrowing in the towelâ takes on new meaning this week, thanks again to televisionâs continuing creative contribution to sport.
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Americans see sport as entertainment. But the British do not necessarily want to be entertained at a sporting event. We require long-term emotional involvement.
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By Michael Hiestand  Tonight, ESPN has an opportunity: show that TV sports can deal with real-life epics.  ESPN lavishes Super Bowl-like pregame shows on all its Monday night NFL games this season.
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NASCAR is a different sport when it comes to TV. There are no &quot;home teams,&quot; just drivers who have their own passionate followings.
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You wouldn't think there would be any more room at Fox, CBS , NBC, ESPN, and the NFL Network to add bodies to their programming teams, but a stunning twist to the landscape has mandated it.
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the third soldier of this apocalypse, the third leg on this perfect and perfectly unholy triangle of sports scandals. If sports truly offers
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As TV warms to pro video-game leagues, the top stars are emerging as big brands
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Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Football, athletics, even cricket - the stain of cheating and doping now seems ingrained in our most cherished games.
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A good subplot can be one of the most intriguing parts of a sports story. Sammy Sosa chasing Mark McGwire while the Cardinals chased the Cubs. Shaq and Kobe feuding while the Lakers ran off three consecutive championships.
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The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is suddenly a TV hit.
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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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National broadcasts of high school football have put coaches in the spotlight, and in potentially dangerous territory.
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Every now and then, we learn a lesson about ex-players in front of TV microphones. Usually the lesson is this: Why? Such a lesson came Sunday, during the Lions-Eagles broadcast, when Tony Siragusa
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It is nearly impossible in Jacksonville, Fla., to ignore the NFL Network, the league's 24-hour network all about itself.
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I'm a lifelong baseball fan, and I don't care if Roger Clemens took steroids, or if he is lying or if McNamee is lying.  News is stuff that's important. If it's national news, it's stuff that is important to everyone in the nation. Whether Clemens took steroids or not is a proper topic for a 60 Minutes, Fresh Air or Nightline segment. To take a whole day across all the cable channels the day after three pivotal primaries is very wrong. (And what if they do it again tomorrow? Oy.) So it's ridiculous that all the cable news channels are broadcasting the full testimony of Roger Clemens and his accuser. Hours of repetitive questions and the same answers, over and over, while there is news happening in the world. I know because I'm subscribed to the MSNBC and AP feeds on Twitter. I have a Google Alert that shows me results of all the campaign conference calls. (There have been a couple this morning, from Obama and McCain, I'd love to get MP3s, and still looking for a feed.) It's time for some serious routing-around, or for the cable news programmers to get back on the job.  Cross-posted at Huffington.
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Some coaches get so good at shading the truth they occasionally lose sight of it themselves. At some point, with some guys, it becomes an occupational hazard. Billy Donovan, to cite the latest example, talked so long and so longingly about coaching in the NBA someday that he stubbornly pursued the opportunity even after he knew deep down it wasn't what he wanted.
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Welcome to the No-Maintenance Super Bowl. There were no media brush fires to extinguish, unless you count Tank Johnson. No supposed humanitarians got busted the night before the game. No one called out anyone. It was a weeklong display of mutual respect and kissy-kissy tributes from one side to the other.