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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?"...

  Tags: Backups, ESPN, football, Games, MARKETING, NBA, NFL

• Max Mara & ESPN Monday Night Football Reporters, Michele Tafoya & Suzy Kolber, Team up for NFL Season

  - 2008-09-22

  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...

  Tags: ESPN, FINANCE, Games, NFL, team

• Hiestand on TV

  - 2008-09-03

  Inside the industry One hotspot this season in the Cold War between TV networks carrying the NFL: The highlights immediately following late Sunday afternoon games. ESPN announced Tuesday that Tom Jackson and John Saunders will join Chris Berman on the 7p.m. ET SportsCenter that will become...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, TVs

• 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

• Hiestand on TV

  - 2008-08-27

  Inside the industry ESPN pays the NFL far more for its TV rights -- $1.1billion annually just for Monday night games and no playoff games -- than the other networks carrying NFL action. But that, obviously, doesn't buy it any special favors. ...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NFL, TVs

• 'Bachelor' stint helps Palmer in booth

  - 2008-08-22

  The latest twists in ESPN's Thursday night college football games, which have been rising from relative obscurity to a high-profile perch, include more big-name teams. For the first time, each game this season includes at least one team from the six conferences that get automatic berths in the Bowl Championship...

  Tags: ESPN, Florida, Games, NFL, Palmer, team

• Hiestand on TV

  - 2008-08-20

  Inside the industry CBS re-signed a veteran quarterback Tuesday and picked up some help on defense. Dan Fouts, a CBS analyst from 1988 to 1993 after a Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacking career, will be an analyst on some CBS NFL games...

  Tags: ABC Inc., analyst, CAREER, CBS Corp., ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, TVs

• McCarthy on TV

  - 2008-07-30

  Inside the industry TV networks don't like to admit mistakes. But ESPN made the right call Tuesday, dropping Emmitt Smith from Sunday NFL Countdown and replacing him with the more experienced Cris Carter. Smith will take a lower-profile role in the network's pregame coverage. ...

  Tags: Carter, ESPN, NETWORKING, NFL, TVs

• Packers move on minus Favre

  - 2008-07-29

  GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Not here. Not now. The Green Bay Packers held their first training camp practice Monday, and it marked a milestone for the franchise. Brett Favre was not invited. This certainly didn't bring out Favre...

  Tags: absence, ESPN, job, NFL, team, Thompson

• NFL Network in talks with ESPN

  - 2008-06-22

  For years, they have circled and jabbed at each other like the heavyweights they are. In one corner, the NFL - considered the gold standard of American sports fare, where ad revenues are as eye-popping as the open-field hits. In the other, Comcast - the Philadelphia-based cable giant that had...

  Tags: Cable, Comcast Corp., ESPN, network, NETWORKING, NFL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS