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It's a Matter of Trust, And It Shouldn't Be

March 5, 2008

Among the lines stuck in my head of late is this one:
“If you can't trust the faith-based assistant to the president, who can you trust?”

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Pats-Colts: Overkill, and Proud Of It

October 30, 2007

This item appeared in today's e-mail:
When the 8-0 New England Patriots visit the 7-0 Indianapolis Colts on Sunday (CBS, 4:15 PM ET), it marks the latest meeting in a season for two unbeaten teams. NFL Network will be there with record-breaking coverage of its own featuring 36.5 hours (34 hours in high definition) of [...]

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But Was He Ever Expected to DO Anything?

August 31, 2007

David Beckham's soccer season might be over. While this certainly matters to the L.A. Galaxy, and possibly to England's national team, does it make any difference to Beckham's planned conquest of America? Probably not.
He came here as a handsome face and body, as part of a movie title ("Bend It Like Beckham," for those of [...]

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"The Bronx is Burning"

July 9, 2007

Over the weekend I took a look at the first three episodes of the eight-part ESPN miniseries about the '77 Yankees, which premieres tonight — and, if nothing else, was pleased to see "Rescue Me's" Daniel Sunjata get a chance to show how very good an actor he is …

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How Did I Forget "Major League"? (And Forget That I Had Remembered It?)

April 5, 2007

Not long ago, I had a post about the great sports movies, both someone else's list and some movies I thought should have been included. And somehow, to my great shame, I didn't think about "Major League." Someone else mentioned it in a comment on that post — but I had even forgotten that when [...]

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What, No "North Dallas Forty"?

March 29, 2007

A few complaints about a list of the 25 greatest sports movies, after the jump …

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Super Bowl Sunday

February 4, 2007

Colts. Bears. Talking lions. K-Fed. Katie. Dave and Oprah. Rainy night in Florida (and on CBS camera lenses). Prince rules. More after the jump …

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Cavs-FSN Deal Official

August 30, 2006

Here's the essential part of the announcement:
The Cleveland Cavaliers and FSN Ohio have reached a new, long-term television rights agreement that greatly expands the 17-year relationship between the team and the network, it was announced today by Steve Liverani, Vice President and General Manager, FSN Ohio, and Len Komoroski, President, Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans [...]

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Golf Sunday

August 27, 2006

About 15 minutes ago, CBS finally came on with coverage of the Bridgestone golf championship here in Akron. I'd be pretty excited to watch — except CBS is running tape-delayed coverage from much earlier today (nor, at this point, does it have a graphic onscreen identifying this as taped coverage). Because of worries about the [...]

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If I Were the King of TV Sports (A Modest, Semi-Serious Proposal)

August 4, 2006

As has been mentioned, well, just about everywhere, the Cavaliers are working out a deal with FSN Ohio that would give the cable service almost all of the Cavaliers' games by 2007-08. I can already hear the complaints from people who expect to have some sports on local broadcast — much the way Indians fans [...]

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About Those ESPYS (With Update)

July 13, 2006

Earlier today I wrote a couple of stories for tomorrow's Beacon Journal about being at the ESPYS. Here are the backstage highlights:
–  The red carpet is one long haul. According to notes handed out to reporters, a celebrity walking the red carpet passed, in order, platforms for ESPN News, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Extra, The [...]

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NFL, NBC and "Flexible Scheduling"

April 5, 2006

If you're looking for my (still expanding) notes about Katie Couric, they're in the "Katie, Katie, Katie" post below.
As for this item, back when NBC made a deal for Sunday night NFL games, I noted that it received the all-important "flexible scheduling" option. That meant the network wasn't stuck with one game that, as the [...]

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Adelphia Deals for the Indians

March 14, 2006

SportsTime Ohio, the new TV overseer of the Cleveland Indians, hoped that the Adelphia/Time Warner merger would happen soon enough that its deal with Time Warner would also apply to the other cable system. But STO said it was talking to Adelphia just in case the merger didn't move quickly enough, and here are the [...]

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The Rock Paper Scissors Movement Continues!

January 20, 2006

Hello to everyone who is here because of the link from www.tvtattle.com. (And thanks, Tattle, for linking to my late-night ravings about "Lost," found below under "Ladies and Gentlemen, M.C. Gainey.") Feel free to browse.
But in this post, I am going to another topic. About a year ago, I wrote a column about an FSN [...]

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And on through the weekend

December 26, 2005

We finished that Alan Rickman Christmas double feature on Christmas Eve with a big dose of "Die Hard" and successfully fought the urge to watch "Love Actually" again. Caught a little of the Browns-Steelers, but it's not easy to stay interested in a game once it's 20-0 and feels much worse than that sounds.
Church service [...]

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Schedules and Silences

November 14, 2005

I've been thinking lately about the joys of football without sound, and I'll get to that later in this post. But first, fun with schedules.
I only made it to halftime of the Steelers-Browns game last night, because I needed to sleep and the 10-point Steeler lead felt pretty solid (well, solid enough not to overcome [...]

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Good Morning

November 6, 2005

Semi-busy day ahead. Several church commitments, grocery shopping, that sort of thing. I hope to file some TV notes later in the day, after I have had a chance to WATCH some television. Yesterday was pretty much overtaken by chores, shopping and a seeing my younger son in his high school's production of "Dead Man [...]

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Baseball Blues

October 13, 2005

Having just spent a lot of energy on comparisons between "Survivor's" Stephenie and the Boston Red Sox, I'm remembering a conversation I had with a co-worker in late September.
I was talking TV with someone, and this guy said, "Aren't you a big baseball fan? … How are you watching everything?"
The answer was, I tried really [...]

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Cleveland Beats Boston!

September 27, 2005

Right now, on my TV set, Tony Pena is rounding the bases off a wet Jacobs Field, his arms raised high, and the Indians have beaten the Red Sox in the first game of their American League Division series.
Yes, I'm looking at a tape. From 1995.
On Oct. 3, we'll mark the 10th anniversary of the [...]

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Sports Nights and Days

August 15, 2005

While I was the office this morning, I had the TV set on next to my desk — but not because I was screening a show, or keeping an eye on a news channel. I was catching the end of the PGA championship. A co-worker (as you will see below, I work in a sea [...]

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