NBC Gives Barber the Ball, and He Runs With It
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Slow to adapt to the past tense of his football career, Tiki Barber, the new âTodayâ correspondent, had a few thoughts on his former football coach.
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Numbingly low Nielsen ratings for last week made it clear why NBC this week hired a new team to oversee its prime-time entertainment department.
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The New York Giants acquired running  back Reuben Droughns from the Cleveland Browns on Friday,  filling the hole left by Tiki Barber's retirement.
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When the N.F.L. season opens Thursday night, NBC Sports will resume its relationship with the league, but they aren't doing it for the love of the game.
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Most of the credit offensively went to Kurt Warner, the man who delivered the ball and created team chemistry by the way he did it.
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The National Football League will let broadcast networks CBS and NBC air the New England Patriots' bid to finish a perfect regular season this weekend, reversing a plan to air the game nationally only on the sports league's own cable channel.
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Minnesota's Laurence Maroney did everything he could to make backfield mate Marion Barber III crack a smile.
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Tiki Barber, who retired from the Giants, will become a broadcaster for NBC's "The Today Show" and is expected to have a role in the network's Sunday night football broadcasts, people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said.
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FOXBOROUGH - They are not much different from the folks who read the sports pages and call the talk shows. They are football fans and they will watch the games this weekend. Just like you.
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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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Tiki Barber, who retired from the Giants, will become a broadcaster for NBCâs âThe Today Showâ and is expected to have a role in the networkâs Sunday night football broadcasts, people close to the negotiations said.
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Tom Coughlin and his staff drilled it into the players last week not to give up if the ball was not caught. The way the play develops, it could be a lateral and a live ball.
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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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NBC is adding a 5-second delay to its Nascar telecasts after Dale Earnhardt Jr. used a vulgarity during a postrace interview last weekend.
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The National Football League will let  broadcast networks CBS and NBC air the New England Patriots'  bid to finish a perfect regular season this weekend, reversing  a plan to air the game nationally only on the sports league's  own cable channel.
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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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NEW YORK  - A two-hour "America's Got Talent" gave NBC a second Tuesday win in a row.