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May 31 2011 - 1:08pm
How Much Ratings Heat Can Heatles-Dirk Deliver?

The Miami-Dallas 2011 NBA Finals shapes up about as well as ABC could have hoped for, short of another rematch of pro hoops ultimate rivals.

When Kobe, Phil...

May 28 2011 - 11:21am
Breathless Over Barca-ManU Champions League Final

If NHL, NBC and Versus execs collectively exhaled when Nathan Horton scored for Boston with 7:33 remaining in the third period and the Bruins held on against the...

May 20 2011 - 12:42pm
Ebersol Exit: Games Changer

Jacques Rogge can’t be joyous.

The president of the International Olympics Committee will entertain U.S. rights bidders for the 2014 and 2016 Games in...

May 18 2011 - 2:44am
ESPN: 800-Pound Gorillas In The Upfront Mist

There were several of the beasts hovering in the house during the worldwide leader’s upfront presentation to media buyers in Manhattan on Tuesday morning....

May 8 2011 - 10:28pm
Lakers, Jackson, Kobe KOd in Big D

The second attempt at a Phil Jackson-Kobe Bryant-Los Angeles Lakers threepeat went out with a whimper in Big D.

Had Mike Breen been calling the game on ABC,...

May 2 2011 - 2:50am
All The Way To Memphis: Not OK(C) For NBA

Not if David Stern and ESPN want to maximize the Nielsens with the Western Conference finals.

The Grizzlies, after falling prey to last-second heroics by...

Apr 26 2011 - 9:56pm
Series, Nets and Nielsens

When you talk to network executives about which teams they want to win NHL playoff series from ratings perspectives, they become PC and say they’re just...

Apr 11 2011 - 1:19am
Eighth-Place In

Excuse NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, COO John Collins and other puck sport executives if they secretly extended high fives over the performances of the Tampa Bay...

Apr 8 2011 - 2:04pm
Gary Blair Got It Right

And happily I got it wrong.

The folksy, meandering coach of Texas A&M was telling everybody that the absence of UConn and Stanford in the women’s...

Apr 4 2011 - 4:29am
Fourth Time's The Charm At Women's Final Four

Texas A&M did it to Baylor in Big D. Now, Notre Dame has turned the tables on UConn in Indy. If the men’s version of March Madness has been about upsets...