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• Sports on the air

  - 2008-10-21

  TELEVISION COLLEGE FOOTBALL Ohio at Temple, ESPN2, 6 p.m. NHL Bruins at Sabres, VS, 5 p.m. SOCCER UEFA: Manchester United vs. Celtic, ESPN2, 12:30 p.m. UEFA: Juventus vs. Real Madrid, ESPN CL, 3 p.m.

  Tags: ESPN, Manchester United Ltd., NHL

• On the air

  - 2008-10-10

  * Taped event (Times may be earlier for DIRECTV and DISH customers.) ^ Simulcast in HD TV/Radio Today TV Radio Baseball ALCS: Red Sox at Rays^ 5:07 p.m. TBS College #1 Oklahoma vs. #5 Texas^ 9 a.m. 7, 10 football Minnesota at...

  Tags: ESPN, NHL, Valero L.P.

• Capitals Alex Ovechkin on the Cover of ESPN The Magazine - Part of the 2008 NHL Preview

  - 2008-09-26

  EXPN - ESPN The Magazine's Action Sports Publication - is Back Life of Reilly: Getting the Truth from College Football Coach's NEW YORK -- The Washington Capitals have never won a Stanley Cup and after a major victory surge at the end of last season and a trip...

  Tags: ESPN, MARKETING, NHL, team

• Cold shoulder

  - 2008-03-04

  ITHINK your newspaper has taken enough flak for not dedicating more coverage to the Sharks. Who really should be taking a majority of the blame is the self- acclaimed "Worldwide leader in sports," ESPN. ESPN virtually ignores the NHL, relegating coverage to three- or...

  Tags: ESPN, Leadership, NHL

• Another drugs-in-sports hearing on Hill

  - 2008-02-22

  Congress will take yet another look at drugs in sports next week, with a hearing that will feature top names from all four major professional leagues, the NCAA and the U.S. Olympic Committee. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NBA commissioner David Stern and NHL...

  Tags: Biotechnology, deposition, ESPN, NBA, NFL, NHL, tournament

• Off-air anti-Jesus rant benches ESPN's Jacobson

  - 2008-01-24

  Dana Jacobson, co-host of ESPN2's First Take, will remain off-air until Monday for comments at a social event she now says were "foolish and insensitive." Jacobson spoke at a roast of ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in Atlantic City on Jan.1. Onstage there, according to...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NHL, TVs

• Sports briefs

  - 2007-06-29

  Hockey HALL HONOREES: The Hockey Hall of Fame is set to welcome one of its finest classes ever. Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens will go in as players this fall, while NHL executive Jim Gregory will enter as a builder. ...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, Harassment, NHL

• Shaq's reality show meets 'Big Challenge'

  - 2007-06-22

  Shaquille O'Neal -- role model? Specifically, role model for obese kids? Well, yes. The basketball star -- who has been criticized at various times for his own weight -- is the host and executive producer of "Shaq's Big Challenge" (Tuesday, 8 p.m., Ch. 4), a six-...

  Tags: Cable, ESPN, NHL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs

• Jazz have to earn national respect

  - 2007-04-27

  We could go on and on about how the Utah Jazz are not getting any respect from the national television media because ... they're not. We could probably fill up most of today's paper with derogatory things that have been said on ESPN, TNT, CNN, FSN and more....

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NHL, TV

• 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...

  Tags: CBS Corp., ESPN, football, Games, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, NHL