Recent content by jshecket

It took me about two hours on the phone. I was speaking to several different agents in all sorts of departments. They all gave me the same old spiel about blackouts and how they may be in effect because one team or another asked for it, one network or another bought out the rights to show a...

I just moved from the Washington, DC area to Columbus, Ohio. Today the Capitals were blacked out on Vs., along with the Reds on FSN Ohio and the Indians on Sportstime Ohio. I called Dish Network and they treated me like a child. Could it actually be that MLB is blacking us all out for our...

Yeah but you can't get to May and June if you stumble out of the gates in October. I'm pretty happy with hte Jackets' 6-3-1, 13 points in 10 games. If you're averaging about 1.2 per game then you're in good shape. I'm also happy to see that Nashville is doing so poorly, sort of like the Flyers...

I think it's a good idea for the NFL to grow its brand worldwide. I'm not expecting them to "pass along the savings" after they sell a bunch of jerseys to kids in England but if revenues go up the salary cap figure will go up as well. The more that happens, the less likely we see a strike or a...

Jackets fan here. (that makes 3? If so, it's disproprotionate.) I'm a Columbus transplant living in Northern Virginia. This weekend I'm going to up to 4 games in 4 days. Caps/Isles tomorrow, OSU/Miami Friday, Bombers/Cyclones Saturday (unless I score a ticket to OSU/MSU football)...

Also, if FBN is "for main street" then why do they have stock pickers? If the coverage has its emphasis on small businesses and the challenges they face then it is filling a void. But, if their only reason for being is the belief that CNBC is a bunch of liberal elites with liberal bias, and...

Mitch, I take it you have the 18 month commitment? You can buy out of it for $13 per remaining month. Given that you are such a high roller I'm sure you can afford it and then switch to DirecTV or Comcast or whatever.

Anybody else find the new ESPN Interactive feature incredibly annoying? Unlike the equivalent feature on CNN, it comes up on its own every time you press anything on the remote. It disables DVR functionality, which I think is the real motive at play.

The LA Rams were playing in Anaheim and the LA Raiders were playing at the Coliseum. Either of those stadiums would have been perfectly capable of staging the Super Bowl, just as the Rose Bowl would have been, and is today, capable of hosting an NFL team. But the NFL, in all their wisdom...

It's also been played in Palo Alto and Pasadena. Last time I checked neither of those is an NFL city. If I'm the NFL I'm calling you on your bluff.

The super bowl will never be played in London for this simple reason: time zone. Even if you schedule kickoff for 9 pm local time, that would be 1 pm on the west coast. TV will never allow the Super Bowl to begin that early. Perhaps they would tape delay it like the Olympics, and that would be...