Sports Briefing | TV Sports: ESPN Announces Reilly Deal
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November, to write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and to deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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Game 7 between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees isn&#39;t Wednesday&#39;s only ballpark news. Major League Baseball has agreed to a grand-slam broadcasting deal with XM Satellite Holdings.
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Electronic Arts may have scored a knockout punch in the competitive video game arena with news that it is entering a 15-year deal with ESPN to incorporate the sports network's brand, content and personalities into its line of sports video games.
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The WNBA announced a new television contract with ESPN/ABC on Sunday in a landmark deal that will give the league rights fees for the first time.
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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN  sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile  telephone service in a deal with Sprint Corp. FON.N catering  to sports fans with news and game highlights on a  next-generation network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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College football made news yesterday with the announcement of a television deal. Fox agreed to a four-year deal with the Bowl Championship Series [excluding the Rose Bowl] that won't begin for two years (the end of the 2006 season).
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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 is relaunching its shuttered cell phone service through Verizon Wireless, this time delivering its flashy feed of sports scores, news and video highlights through a top industry player instead of competing for subscribers with its own full-blown wireless brand.
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Walt Disney Co.&#39;s (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) ESPN sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile telephone service in a deal with Sprint Corp.
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Electronic Arts Inc. has signed a 15-year agreement giving it the exclusive right to use the sports channel ESPN brand in its video games.
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Walt Disney Co&#39;s sports network ESPN is  buying cricinfo, the world&#39;s largest specialist cricket Web  site, as it expands beyond its traditional strengths of  American football, basketball, baseball and Nascar.
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The Under Armour All America Classic will give players like Landon's Connor Reilly a chance to end their high school careers on a high note.
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Kevin Reilly is managing the programming of Fox as it goes into competition against the programming he put together for NBC two months ago.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- News Corp. is planning a sports cable network to take on ESPN, but the decision to greenlight the net will hinge on negotiations currently under way with the NFL.
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BRISTOL, Conn. -- ESPN and The Tennis Channel will share U.S. cable TV and multimedia rights for the French Open and Australian Open through 2011 under an agreement announced Tuesday.
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The contract of Patriots coach Bill Belichick remains one of the more closely guarded secrets in the NFL, but ESPN.com reported yesterday that Belichick recently signed an extension through at least the 2013 season.
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Fox News Channel commentator Bill O&#39;Reilly and a female co-worker who had accused him of sexual harassment have reached an out-of-court settlement, agreeing to drop