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Sports Democracy In Action

February 14, 2008 Ryan Berenz

Take a break from presidential primary politics and let your voice be heard in two sports fan polls running concurrently on the Interweb. The Greatest Highlight With Chris Berman is an ESPN SportsCenter feature that’s been running for a while now. They took 100 historical sports highlights and winnowed them down to a Sweet 16. The 16 highlights will be matched in a tournament-style bracket until the Greatest Highlight (With Chris Berman!) will be announced on ESPN March 2, presumably by Chris Berman. Taking a cue from ESPN.com’s SportsNation Coach Approval Ratings, sports blog Deadspin is running a daily Media […]

Funniest Golf Videos: More Shots To The Groin

February 11, 2008 Ryan Berenz

Posted by Cubicle QB Now you can be a part of a new GOLF CHANNEL series that looks at the lighter side of golf: Calling all golf lovers with more talent for being wild and wacky than becoming the next Tiger Woods or Natalie Gulbis. If you’ve ever dreamed of being a television star, here’s your chance to make your dreams come true. GOLF CHANNEL is looking for your hilarious golf hijinks, side-splitting jokes, amazing trick shots, entertaining golf music video… anything that will make us laugh! As we know from 20 years of America’s Funniest Home Videos (or AFV, […]

Super Bowl XLII: Best And Worst Commercials

February 4, 2008 Ryan Berenz

Posted by Cubicle QB We make sandwich. I am meat. Wow. That was unexpected. The Giants killed the Pats’ perfect season in the biggest way possible. I’m not quite ready to accept that we’re now going to hear “Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning.” But I’m not here to analyze the X’s and O’s of the game. I’m here to pick my seven best and worst commercials. It’s a better crop than last year, but still pretty lackluster. (You can watch them all again on MySpace. See what other people thought on USA Today’s Ad Meter.) Here are my picks: The […]

Super Bowl Classics On NFL Network

January 21, 2008 Ryan Berenz

Good news from NFL Network today. They’ll be airing 10 classic Super Bowls in their entirety over the next 12 days. Five of these Super Bowls have never been reaired before, and a few of them will include their halftime shows. The broadcasts include the original network announcers and graphics, but alas, the original commercials won’t air with them (I could use some Bud Bowl action). NFL Network will also show the 2007 Week 17 Patriots-Giants game on Jan. 24 at 9pm ET and Feb. 1 at 9pm ET. Oh, you still don’t get NFL Network? Then it’s TS4U. Here […]

Unexpected Bonus “E:60”: Michael Vick’s Dogs, O.J. Mayo, Kimbo Slice And More

December 10, 2007 Ryan Berenz

ESPN announced it will air a special edition of its sports newsmagazine series E:60 Dec. 11 at 7pm ET. The series will resume its regular run in the spring. Features on Tuesday’s special edition: The Vick Dogs With Michael Vick serving time in federal prison ahead of his sentencing on Dec. 10 for conspiracy to operate a dog fighting enterprise, the fate of his dogs is also up in the air. E:60 correspondent Jeremy Schaap explores what happened to the surviving 48 pit bulls and 12 other dogs seized from Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels in Virginia. The dogs include nine […]

ESPN’s Best Of “This Is SportsCenter” Special

December 4, 2007 Ryan Berenz

ESPN’s SportsCenter is, at times, difficult to watch, but the promos in the famous “This Is SportsCenter” campaign rarely disappoint (one of our favorites is above). On Dec. 11 at 8pm ET, ESPN airs a one-hour special hosted by Karl Ravech chronicling ESPN’s ad campaign, which began in 1995 and features mini mockumentaries that capture comical moments at ESPN’s Bristol campus when SportsCenter anchors interact with athletes, celebrities and mascots. The special will include more than 50 commercials, including the first-ever “This Is SC” spot and the debut of three others. Also included are interviews with athletes who’ve appeared in […]

Stanford Vs. Cal: “The Play” Lives On

November 20, 2007 Ryan Berenz

25 years later, the band still comes onto the field … Hard to believe it’s been 25 years since “The Play.” It’s been replayed and talked about countless times since. Versus reunited John Elway, Kevin Moen, Gary Tyrrell and Joe Starkey to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that game and share their memories in an hourlong special called Cal vs. Stanford: 25 Years Later, airing Nov. 24 at 6pm ET (it reairs Nov. 24 at 11pm, Nov. 28 at 7pm & 2am, and Dec. 1 at 2:30pm). The special was taped last month, and I had the chance to talk […]

America’s Sexiest Sportscaster 2: Obviously Erin Andrews

November 14, 2007 Ryan Berenz

[Update: Look, the spelling bee just got a whole lot sexier!] Playboy.com is running an online poll to determine America’s sexiest female sportscaster. The candidates are: Erin Andrews (ESPN), Colleen Dominguez (ESPN), Alex Flanagan (NFL Network), Shana Hiatt (NBC), Jamie Little (ESPN), Hazel Mae (NESN), Rachel Nichols (ESPN), Lisa Salters (ESPN), Lindsay Soto (FSN), Sage Steele (ESPN), Krista Voda (SPEED Channel) and Jeanne Zelasko (FOX). It’s presumed Erin Andrews is going to run away with this. Duh. But the biggest problem I find with the poll is that they’ve excluded all the candidates from their first Sexy Sportscaster poll, conducted […]

“E:60”: Final Fall Edition

November 6, 2007 Ryan Berenz

The final fall edition of ESPN’s E:60 airs Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7pm ET. The series will return for another run in April 2008. Features on tonight’s episode: Gunnar’s Dream Comes True Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason is a very visible presence around pro football as an analyst for television and radio. But behind the scenes, Esiason and his family have faced a difficult personal challenge, his son Gunnar’s battle with cystic fibrosis. In 1993, Gunnar was diagnosed with the disease which affects the lungs and digestive system. Today, at age 16, he still undergoes 90 minutes of treatment a […]

“E:60”: Not Yet Replaced With “World Series Of Poker” Reruns

October 29, 2007 Ryan Berenz

E:60 is still alive and kicking on ESPN. The third episode airs Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7pm ET. Features on the episode are: Lost Boy E:60 correspondent Tom Farrey follows a young Sudanese, Macharia Yuot, on a journey that spans 7,000 miles and almost 20 years — a journey rife with emotional peaks and valleys. Yuot is one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” the more than 20,000 Sudanese children who were ordered to flee their villages during civil war to escape being conscripted by government soldiers or murdered. After a 800-mile trek and years in refugee camps, several thousand […]