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• Aura around draft is blown way out of proportion

  - 2006-04-28

  Love this time of year. Baseball is fresher than the morning dew. Defense is played in the NBA. Golf is in its full vernal equinox backswing. Then there's the NFL draft. Nothing happens. Millions of draftniks will watch. Time to reach for the rake. This year,...

  Tags: Baseball, ESPN, NFL, team

• All the talk of steroids bores fans

  - 2005-04-29

  SO WHAT IF the first sentence contains the word steroids? You don't care, do you? About steroids that is. Not like the way you care about Armando Benitz's torn hamstring. Or the Athletics' being shut out four times and still winning as many games as they've...

  Tags: baseball, ESPN, Games, NFL, TVs

• From truck, CBS duo provides telling views

  - 2005-04-01

  ST. LOUIS -- CBS Sports producer Bob Dekas and director Bob Fishman toil in the production truck, but they might be as valuable to the network's telecasts of Saturday's NCAA men's basketball Final Four games as announcers Jim Nantz and Billy Packer . The truck duo has contrasting backgrounds....

  Tags: Baseball, CBS Corp., ESPN, Games, NFL

• Red Sox and Yankees prove baseball can be a hit in the ratings game

  - 2004-10-20

  The unpredictability of sports hardly has been more evident than it has been in the topsy-turvy American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. Fox pays $417 million a year to Major League Baseball, with the value of postseason games accounting for about 80%...

  Tags: baseball, ESPN, Games, network, NFL, TV

• Networks lose ground on NFL.

  - 1998-10-05

  Fox, ABC, ESPN suffer ratings declines; some blame baseball's late-season resurgence For the first month of the NFL season, the TV picture isn't good: Ratings are down and advertising is soft. And baseball's resurgence may be part of the prob ...

  Tags: NFL, ABC Inc., network, baseball, ESPN, Fox, game, NBC Universal Inc.