Backed by ESPN, 19-team AFL kicks off
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The Arena Football League enters its third decade with a new broadcast partner that happens to own a portion of the 19-team organization.
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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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The top and bottom appears set, but thereâsa whole lot of middle ground left to cover. The New England Patriots hosted Buffalo last night and Philadelphia and Dallas round
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ESPN announced Tuesday that it has bought a minority stake in the Arena Football League and will televise at least 26 games a year for five seasons.
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When: Tonight, 8. Where: New Orleans. TV: ESPN2. Mark Blaudschun's analysis: A pair of 7-5 teams meet in the first of three bowl games in New Orleans this season. Florida Atlantic didn't start its football program until 2001 under coach Howard Schnellenberger, who also inherited a mediocre Miami program in 1979 and turned it into a powerhouse. Owls sophomore QB ...
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ESPN acquires national TV rights to the Arena Football League on Tuesday and also will have a minority stake in the 19-team indoor league.
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Now if only the NFL can let players at the other 20 positions on the football field get involved. The league trading deadline was yesterday, and for the first time in five years, there actually were deals made.
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Season openers like tonightâs donât get much more exciting than this. The NFL schedule-makers knew what they were doing when they sent
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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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LONDON -- The NFL's first regular-season game outside North America already looks like a big hit. More than 500,000 tickets were requested by about 160,000 fans in the three days following Friday's official announcement, the NFL said Wednesday.
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How many other teams can make news by finishing two-a-day practices with a bar fight -- not to mention one in which some Thundering Herd knucklehead maybe gives a ticket to the festivities to a player on a team they&#39;ll be playing next month?
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The people who pushed the NFL into a successful minority hiring effort are now turning their attention to the NCAA.
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The NFL Network began airing its series of eight Thursday and Saturday games on Thanksgiving. It wasn't auspicious.
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Several teams were slated to host season openers Wednesday night, but won't due to a labor dispute that shows no sign of ending soon.
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By BARRY WILNER  ESPN acquired national TV rights to the Arena Football League on Tuesday and also will have a minority stake in the 19-team indoor league.  The network will have a regular Monday-night slot in which it will televise 14 games from March through June.
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Football Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is part of a group considering formation of a football league that would compete with the NFL for players drafted lower than the second round. The league, still very much in the preliminary stage, would play its games on Friday nights. "It's a pretty simple concept," Cuban said in an e-mail to the Associated ...
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The ACC chose Jacksonville and mammoth Alltel Stadium over six communities, including Tampa, as the site for the inaugural title game next season.