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I've known about this about 20+ years ago when I first read "Loose Balls," David Pluto's book about the ABA. Great read if you can get a copy, especially the stories about a young Bob Costas and his early days as a broadcaster. Very funny stuff.

This soccer fan will not waste his time on the epl or any of those European leagues which have a handful of mega-teams and a bunch of also-rans. MLS may not match those leagues when it comes to player talent, but the competition is far more compelling.

LOL.

That turned out to be the problem. I have no idea how that got changed. Thank you.

I'm getting Spanish commentary on every game. Thought I may have bumped the sap button on my TV remote but when I hit it again it says not available. Its strange because when the Orioles game started on TNT last night it was in English but when it switched to TBS it was in Spanish. Commercials...

Very happy for everybody again. Hopefully it sticks this time.

Sorry to hear this, especially since it seemed the matter had been settled.

OK, there is the HD issue. But for a company that most say is anti-sports, Dish seems to be doing just fine. Look what we have gained in the last year -MLB Network, Universal sports, Univision Deportes, BeIn sports, and Pac-12 plus keeping BTN. Sure MSG and SNY are nowhere to be found yet, but...

I hope this works out for those who like BTN. I've had it for five years and watched a couple of basketball games, all the marquee stuff winds up on ESPN or CBS.

Phelps' achevements are mind-blowing. But, sports fans being sports fans, we sometimes need to throw some wood on the fire for the sake of argumentation. Yes, Phelps has 22 medals, but he got a lot of help with nine of them coming in relays. Latynina's medals, with the exception of three team...

I like collecting programs and media guides. The most interesting one I have is an Eagles-Cardinals program from 1950.

I set a goal to see the Nats once a month this year. Went to DC in April and May, saw them in Baltimore in June. July isn't going to work out, but got plans to see three games in August. That makes six which equals one a month.

It has been mentioned in the forums over at CFL.ca that there is (but not yet announced) a new US TV deal that would start with the second half of the season plus the playoffs and Grey Cup. Many think it will be with the NBC Sports Network, but that is just speculation.

A great Olympic champion. Too often we get caught up with those athletes and their pursuit for multiple medals in a single Olympics (ie swimmers, gymnasts, and track stars) that we tend to ignore the great ones who can only win one and then have to maintain that standard of excellence for...

Just to let you know the contract for ESPN to carry Euro 2012 also includes the rights to Euro 2016, so no worries about the TV arrangements in four years time.

I miss the old days when pro football was a game. Now it is (like everything else) packaged like a reality TV show. Do we need hours of pre-game hype? No. The half-hour shows in the 80s (NFL Today, NFL 81) did just fine. Do we need breathless announcers making every miniscule detail of the game...

I read many years ago that our leagues do have contingencies in place should such a tragedy occur. In most cases they would have a draft of players from other teams in an attempt to get the team functional in a short period of time.

I posted awhile back (probably well over a year probably), that baseball fans could just get their fix with ESPN and this channel was about worthless. In the year since I've had friends talk me into trying fantasy baseball (which after two decades in the wilderness has been a disaster), I've...

Wow, a soccer thread that runs for 19 pages. Some feathers must have really got ruffled. I'd take the time to read them all, but life is too short to care about what soccer-haters think.

In fact half of the ten most watched World Cup matches on ABC/ESPN did not involve the US. Soccer bashers never let the truth get in the way of a good argument. They now have three years to come up with some fresh material.

Nearly 13.5 millions people tuned in the Final on ESPN on Sunday. The game fared better in the ratings than the MLB All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl, and Game 3 of last year's World Series. While ratings for soccer in general in this country remain miniscule, the numbers for this game plus the more...

The NBA is in lockout? I guess I was too busy with the Women's World Cup to notice.

I've watched every match thus far. I'm sort of surprised some of the usual haters haven't hijacked this thread yet. So let me throw up a few pre-emptive strikes. 0-0 games? There have been three (out of 164 matches so far) in the 20 year history of the WWC. Diving? Seldom happens in the women's...

If you want to consider defunct leagues, the USFL had the best trophy.

I notice my channel guide is listing an airing of a Tigers-Orioles game on the NHL Network later this week. Almost fell off the couch when I saw it.