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Harvardians have plied their trade in virtually every field of sports management (reference Los Angeles Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ’95, among many, many others); TV media (James Brown ’73 of FOX Sports’ high-profile NFL studio show); and print media (Daniel G. Habib ’00 of Sports Illustrated, who is also a Crimson editor...
...away, they’ve got three or four other guys to go to.”Perhaps the best of them all was running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who rumbled for 134 clock-killing yards on 25 carries to accompany two touchdowns. The pair of scores extended his NFL record for consecutive games with a rushing touchdown to 16 contests.“Offensively, we just didn’t do enough to help our defense out,” Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said. “We couldn’t stay on the field. We didn?...
...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
...Trojan horse," says White. Like WWE's comic-book rivalries, the reality show created competitors whose aspirations and heartbreaks have hooked fight fans. When the first live fight on Spike this season matched a bunch of contenders from the first series in combat, the show outdrew ESPN's NFL preseason and X Games telecasts in the target demographic of men ages 18 to 49. The premiere of this season's reality show drew more than 2 million late-night viewers. The next three episodes logged increases in the number of men watching. "It's the right show for the right...
...years; in Fort Wayne, Ind. Over a 60-year career, the velvet-voiced baritone covered seminal events in such sports as golf, boxing, football and horse racing. Among his most notable broadcasts: the first televised Masters tournament, in 1956; the matchup known as the greatest game in NFL history, the 1958 league championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts; and the perfect 10 scored by gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...