The media landscape has shifted even more in ten years since Deadspin’s Manti Te’o bombshell
Last week Kyle Kensing wrote a retrospective on the ten year anniversary of one of sports broadcasting’s first...
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Looking back 10 years ago when Brent Musburger met Katherine Webb
“When you’re a quarterback at Alabama — you see that lovely lady there? She does go to Auburn...
At Pac-12 Media Day, malaise of TV rights and realignment overshadow football
College football finds itself at a crossroads where the importance of TV-generated revenue threatens what makes the sport unique.
Despite success, conference realignment leaves Mountain West & Group of Five in uncertain media landscape
The pursuit of growing, yet limited TV revenue has left much of college football in an uncertain place where winning guarantees nothing.
From All-American to Supreme Court, “Whizzer” White foresaw TV reshaping college football
The dissenting opinion in the landmark 1984 Supreme Court case that opened college football TV rights to independent negotiation -- and set in motion the atmosphere that gives us today's conference realignment -- came from a college football star. That's not a coincidence.
Before First Take, Chris Russo gave voice to sports radio- & motivation to a heroin-smoking Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo's voice was even the first heard in the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant.
Gambling access and coverage grow, leaving college sports in a tenuous spot
The rise of sports betting -- and the promotion and programming relating to it all over the place -- creates an uncomfortable situation for college athletics.
What lessons can men’s college basketball learn from an incredible Final Four?
This tournament and the Final Four specifically have been incredible. The regular season should be better, too.
North Carolina vs. Duke, the dramatic climax of Coach K’s last dance
UNC-Duke in the Final Four is the perfect way to cap off Mike Krzyzewski's career- and it's a gold mine for TBS.
Made-for-TV: the evolution of March Madness and basketball broadcasting
ESPN’s MegaCast Film Room is a blueprint for creating smarter football fans
ESPNs annual Film Room is the biggest step since John Madden towards educating the football viewing public. So what's next?
The life and death of NBCSN
NBCSN perhaps never hit the heights NBC envisioned, but it still had a large effect on the sports landscape.
Vince McMahon’s brashness helped sink the original XFL, but this incarnation may need WWE to thrive in order to survive
The XFL may need WWE to thrive more than it ever could have expected for the league to carry on.
