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Max Mara & ESPN Monday Night Football Reporters, Michele Tafoya & Suzy Kolber, Team up for NFL Season
NEW YORK -- Max Mara and ESPN have teamed up to dress Monday Night Football MNF reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya for the National Football League NFL regular season for all Monday night games on ESPN. For 16 weeks straight, Suzy and Michele will be dressed head-to-toe in...
NFL Network, ESPN discuss a partnership
NEW YORK AP -- The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about forming a partnership, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. A deal could end a long standoff between the league and cable carriers, some of whom said the NFL was asking them to...
Del Grande: Tuning in NBA now slam dunk
THE BAY AREA basketball and hockey seasons are over. The NFL draft and Kentucky Derby are history. And there'll be plenty of opportunities to watch the Giants and A's this summer. It's time to dial in the NBA playoffs, sports fans, and enjoy. Few...
Family issues beset kicker
Surfing the Web Recommended reading: Tynes' trying times On the morning of Masters Sunday, one of the top Google hits was a story about an NFL kicker and his brother. An ESPN story on New York Giants kicker...
Kiffin: Fire me; Davis: Resign on dotted line
What's an offseason without the Oakland Raiders making news, even if the spotlight is supposed to be on the teams in the playoffs? On Friday, ESPN reported that Raiders managing general partner Al Davis has asked coach Lane Kiffin to resign after only one season over philosophical...
CBS, Fox may split NFL Sunday nights in 2006
If Monday Night Football moves to ESPN from ABC in the new NFL TV contracts starting in 2006, the league is considering splitting the Sunday night package between CBS and Fox, according to two sports TV executives, one of whom is involved in the negotiations. CBS would get the...
NFL, Disney officials continue to dicker over ABC, ESPN deals
Officials of the Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC and ESPN, and NFL officials will meet today in New York in an attempt to advance negotiations for TV contracts with the network and the cable channel. Those conversations might cover moving Monday Night Football from ABC to ESPN and the...
NFL receives eight billion-dollar TV bonanza
NEW YORK AFP — Eight billion dollars in television contract extensions were approved here by National Football League officials, securing telecast rights on the CBS and Fox networks for the next six years. The American football deals will keep Sunday afternoon games on Fox and CBS through 2011. CBS...
'MNF' scheduling problems certain to come up in rights bargaining
A few years ago, ABC officials requested a flexible late-season Monday Night Football schedule to offset games matching teams with poor records. If those demands were continuing this season, they would have started in the first month -- with Monday's matchup of the Kansas City Chiefs (0-3) at the...
Disney faces likely tough scrimmage on football
NEW YORK -- Michael Eisner has had a busy year, fending off a hostile takeover from Comcast, a shareholder rebellion led by ex-directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, failed talks to renew the Pixar Animation Studios deal and ongoing uncertainty about contract renewals for the founding Weinstein brothers at Disney's...
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