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• Game time

  - 2007-09-03

  NFL greats Eric Dickerson I and Marshall Faulk r enjoy playing the newest version of EA Sports' Madden NFL 08 at an Xbox 360 station at ESPN Zone in New York, Dickerson and Faulk were a part of the "Maddenoliday" festivities in Times Square where they met with fans.

  Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., ESPN, game, NFL

• Clash of the Titans: Cable industry rebels against NFL's new channel

  - 2007-08-22

  As football season approaches, the cable industry is gang- tackling the fledgling NFL Network created by the powerful National Football League. Comcast subscribers in Utah and across the nation have had the NFL Network yanked from their homes as part of a bitter battle. The NFL tried to...

  Tags: Cable, ESPN, game, network, NETWORKING, NFL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• 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...

  Tags: ESPN, football, game, NFL, team, tournament

• This Just In.(Cox Communications to offer NFL Network's games, ESPN and Comcast to renew deal, MTV Networks to launch multiplatform networks)

  - 2006-11-13

  By Staff Cox Joins NFL Network"s Cable-Operator Roster Staff New York -- Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and Cablevision Systems remain among the few operators that haven't reached distribution deals...

  Tags: Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc., Disney Corp., ESPN, game, MTV Networks, network, NFL

• Trench Warfare in the NFL.(NFL Network plans sports programs)(Tony Kornheiser on Monday Night Football.)(ratings of television networks)

  - 2006-08-28

  By Ben Grossman Kornheiser, flex scheduling and NFL Network are this season's flashpoints As the NFL season prepares to kick off this week, TV rights to the games themselves are being passed around like an old...

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

• Football Kicks Off With Shifts in TV Formation.

  - 2006-08-14

  By Mike Reynolds Are you ready for some football? Time Warner Cable may not be at the moment, but pro footballeIUs regular season kicks off in 24 days on Sept. 7 with the Miami Dolphins visiting...

  Tags: NFL, ESPN, network, game, NBC Universal Inc., TV

• After Super Bowl, the TV games begin.(PICTURE THIS)

  - 2006-02-13

  The ridiculously long and superficially hyped up Super Bowl XL is finally behind us. So what's everyone talking about now that the football season is over? Why, the National Football League, of course. ...

  Tags: Comcast Corp., ESPN, game, league, NFL, TV

• Pregame shows are good setup for ratings

  - 2005-11-18

  When TV broadcast networks were superpowers -- with a virtual stranglehold on all the American eyeballs peering at electronic screens -- their Cold War was fought across time slots. Today, that seems quaint. Asking, say, whether broadcast network news shows are even relevant anymore might be more telling than...

  Tags: CBS Corp., ESPN, game, network, NETWORKING, NFL, team, TVs

• NFL game sales take a hit: EA secures niche at retailers' expense.(Electronic Arts Inc., National Football League)

  - 2005-09-19

  The net effect of Electronic Arts obtaining the exclusive rights to develop, publish and distribute videogames based on National Football League properties and players last December has been lost sales for retailers. EA has always had competi The...

  Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., ESPN, game, NFL, sales

• ESPN pays the price: for 'MNF'--ops to bid next?

  - 2005-04-25

  ESPN turned the sports-TV world upside down last week when it acquired the long-standing broadcast franchise Monday Night Football. It took the handoff from ABC, its sister The Walt Disney Co. network, which punted on the pricey money-loser. T ...

  Tags: ABC Inc., ESPN, game, network, NFL