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• Robert Redford to produce, appear in Jackie Robinson biopic

  - 2008-04-14

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood icon Robert Redford is to produce and take a starring role in a film about baseball star Jackie Robinson, the first major league African-American player of the modern era, sports broadcaster ESPN said Monday. ESPN said the company's films division was teaming with Redford...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, baseball, ESPN

• Steroid supplier believes McNamee not Clemens: report

  - 2008-02-10

  WASHINGTON AFP — Kirk Radomski, sentenced to six months on probation for steroid distribution, told ESPN he believes Brian McNamee when the fitness trainer says that baseball star Roger Clemens was a dope cheat. Former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Radomski has admitted supplying performance-enhancing drugs to former policeman...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, baseball, ESPN, Government

• When it comes to TBS' LCS ratings decline, just blame it on teams

  - 2007-10-17

  If Winston Churchill were alive, he'd be enthralled by TV sports ratings. And with baseball's postseason ratings, he could resurrect one of his famous quotes: "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Let's unwrap. TBS' first-ever coverage of the playoffs produced the...

  Tags: ABC Inc., baseball, ESPN, Games, League, team, TVs

• 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

• US baseball bosses knew of steroids woes earlier than admitted

  - 2005-11-08

  NEW YORK AFP — Major League Baseball officials knew of widespread steroid taking by players as early as 1991, long before what they have admitted before US lawmakers, according to a report. BALCO founder Victor Conte also said it is simple for players to cheat despite baseball's new anti-steroids...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, baseball, ESPN, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, MLB, Quality

• Series ratings hit low, night owls excepted

  - 2005-10-28

  Major League Baseball's playoffs might be more watchable if games were played more quickly. But, as Fox's ratings suggest, they might not draw as many viewers. Despite inevitable complaints from some Easterners that it's hard for them to stay awake for the final outs, late-night baseball action is a...

  Tags: baseball, CBS Corp., ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., TVs

• Baseball's timing perfect with TV deal looming

  - 2005-09-30

  You want big numbers in your contract year. And Major League Baseball, which probably will get a new national broadcast TV deal in coming months, could be on the brink of cashing in. It didn't seem that way just three years ago, when Fox got the lowest-rated World Series...

  Tags: baseball, CBS Corp., ESPN, Games, MLB, NHL, TVs

• ESPN breaks ice with baseball: $2.4b deal leaves door open for OLN, other nets.(Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Major League Baseball)

  - 2005-09-19

  Major League Baseball hit a cable-TV rights home run last week, scoring a new eight-year, $2.4 billion agreement with ESPN. Baseball--whose ESPN rights fee improved by about 50%--also has the ability to connect with a quartet of other national cabl Major League Baseball hit...

  Tags: baseball, entertainment, ESPN, Fox, MLB, network

• MLB ratings tepid in first half.(SPORTS)(Major League Baseball ratings)

  - 2005-07-18

  Cable networks say Major League Baseball ratings haven't hit any home runs during the first half of the season, but they aren't striking out among viewers either. ESPN, the Fox regional sports networks, TBS and Superstation WGN were posting e ...

  Tags: baseball, ESPN, Fox, game, MLB, network, 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