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• Mizzou Quarterbacks Chase Daniel and Chase Patton on the Cover of ESPN The Magazine

  - 2008-10-10

  2008 NBA Fantasy Preview Offers up "Best Bets", "Bust Bets" and Much More Rick Reilly on Trying to Walk Away From the NFL: Ask John Lynch it's Not Easy NEW YORK -- "Why is it that some of the greatest college quarterbacks never make it to the pros?"...

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• Houston's Mario Williams on the Cover of Latest ESPN The Magazine - Part of the 2008 Football Preview

  - 2008-08-29

  MLB Pullpen Rankings Rick Reilly on How Minor League Baseball Players Got Hosed by Steroids NEW YORK -- Are you ready for some football? ESPN The Magazine is. Its annual NFL Preview issue hits newsstands today and is highlighted by The Texans, who have never finished a season...

  Tags: ESPN, football, Mag, NFL, team

• sports in brief

  - 2008-07-03

  Local & state: McCarthy,Packers give $100,000 to Baker Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy has partnered with his team to make a $100,000 donation to Baker University. The money will in part aid the football program, going toward the funding of a football scholarship in McCarthy's name. ...

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• Carter replacing Salisbury as ESPN football analyst

  - 2008-02-27

  ESPN said late Tuesday that it was parting ways with longtime football analyst Sean Salisbury. The surprise announcement came hours after the network announced its hiring of Cris Carter from HBO's Inside the NFL. "Sean Salisbury has made many contributions to our efforts for the past...

  Tags: analyst, Carter, ESPN, football, network, NETWORKING, NFL, Sean, TVs

• Sports on TV, radio

  - 2007-11-09

  Friday TV COLLEGE FOOTBALL Rutgers at Army, ESPN2, 6 p.m. GOLF HSBC Champions, GOLF, 7 a.m. LPGA Tournament of Champions, GOLF, 11:30 a.m. Barclays Singapore Open, GOLF, 2 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ...

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• Beano's back, looking for his next great pick

  - 2007-08-10

  Beano Cook, who says he was the first person on a national college football TV studio show who hadn't played or coached the sport when he first appeared on ABC in 1982, is making a comeback. Cook, 75, will do Friday pick 'em segments this season...

  Tags: ABC Inc., Cook, ESPN, football, Games, TVs

• sports in brief

  - 2007-07-21

  Local & state: Beasley's 13 pointshelp U.S. team rout Argentina Kansas State's incoming freshman Michael Beasley scored 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds as Team USA walloped Argentina 112-86 on Friday in the U19 World Championships quarterfinals in Novi Sad, Serbia. Beasley shot 5 of 11...

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• Keyshawn retires, joins ESPN

  - 2007-05-24

  LOS ANGELES -- Keyshawn Johnson gave up football for a microphone Wednesday, retiring from the NFL and taking his opinionated voice to ESPN. Johnson, one of the NFL's top receivers during an 11-year career, agreed to a multiyear contract and will appear on several ESPN telecasts, including pre-game...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, football, Johnson, NFL

• NBC's Hull takes some shots at network's NHL coverage

  - 2007-02-28

  Brett Hull knows NBC touted him as hockey's version of TNT's Charles Barkley in basketball or its own Cris Collinsworth for football when it hired him in December: candid, outspoken, controversial. Be careful what you wish for. The sharpshooting Hull criticized his network's coverage Tuesday, saying...

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• Theismann reflects on ESPN's first crack at Monday nights

  - 2006-12-27

  ESPN football analyst Joe Theismann says TV viewers and critics who expect him and Tony Kornheiser to spar and debate on Monday Night Football the way Kornheiser spars with Michael Wilbon on Pardon the Interruption forget one thing: They have to call a football game. "A lot of times you...

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