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05.28.14 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, May 28, 2014, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
CBS Sports unveiled its plans for the college football season, lining up new faces for its broadcasts and selecting its first SEC games of the year. The company’s 14th consecutive season of national coverage of the conference kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 3:30p with Georgia/South Carolina with 16 games slated during the network’s 14-week season. The channel will carry double headers on Oct. 11 and Nov. 8 as well as the SEC Championship on Dec. 6. Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson will call the game.
New faces in the mix include Allie LaForce joining Lundquist and Danielson as reporter. She joined CBS Sports in 2012 and hosts the late night series Lead Off on CBS Sports Network and serves as a college basketball sideline reporter. Meanwhile, the company named Adam Zucker as host of College Football Today, the Network’s pre-game, halftime and post-game studio show, joining analysts Brian Jones and Spencer Tillman. Zucker has been lead anchor for CBS Sports Network hosting studio shows including Inside College Football and Inside College Basketball.
ESPN Executive Chairman George Bodenheimer is closing a big chapter in the company’s history, announcing that he was leaving the company as of May 31 and ending a 33-year run at ESPN. He notified colleagues of the news and thanked past and present ESPN employees in his note, according to the network, writing, "It has been my privilege and great pleasure to work alongside the most passionate, innovative and hard-working colleagues in this or any other business for the past 33 years."
Meanwhile, ESPN’s coverage of every NCAA Division I Baseball Championship matchup is slated to launch with 112 games from the 16 Regional sites on ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN3 starting Friday and continuing with all Super Regional sites from June 6-9 into the College World Series (up to 17 games from June 14-25). Regional round action will see the return of Bases Loaded, ESPN’s four-day platform providing unlimited live cut-ins and highlights from numerous games. Dari Nowkhah and Matt Schick will host the Bases Loaded coverage with analysts Kyle Peterson and Mike Rooney.
Universal Sports Network is partnering with Amaury Sports Organization to broadcast the first-ever La Course by Le Tour de France live in the US this summer. The one-day women’s cycling race will finish on the famed Champs-Elysees ahead of the finale of this year’s final stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, July 27 and will see 100 cyclists racing over 90-kilometers of 13 laps of the Tour de France’s final circuit.
It’s time for the Scripps National Spelling Bee once again, marking ESPN’s 21st straight year of televising the event. Coverage will see more than 14 combined hours of live competition across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3, starting today at 8a and concluding tomorrow at 10p. Throughout the competition, ESPN3 and WatchESPN will feature an enhanced "Play Along" version, a newly integrated informational experience featuring the live coverage from the Bee alongside a display of the official spelling clues from Scripps, speller bio blasts, previous words spelled, live tweets and other information. SportsCenter anchor Chris McKendry returns to the Final with Paul Loeffler returning as analyst. Meanwhile, ESPN and the Scripps National Spelling Bee reached a two-year agreement for the exclusive rights to carry the National Spelling Bee Finals in 2014 and 2015 across its linear television and digital platforms.
HBO has lined up three fights from three different continents on three separate HBO channels this Saturday starting at 4p. With bouts set from Macau, London and Las Vegas, the action begins with Simpiwe Vetyeka/Nonito Donaire from Macau, followed by Carl Froch/George Groves II from London. At midnight, HBO 2 and HBO Latino hits the Tropicana Casino Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas for Javier Fortuna/Juan Antonio Rodriguez.
MLB Network’s June slate will feature 25 different teams, including every division leader, and live games six days per week. Highlights include: the Athletics in five games, including the Yankees on June 5; and MLB Network Showcase making its first stops of the season in Cincinnati, Detroit and Texas.
MSG+ and The New York Racing Association will be offering viewers "enhanced" coverage of the New York racing scene throughout the year, including comprehensive preliminary coverage of the June 7 Belmont Stakes. Programming will include several days of live racing throughout the year, including all three New York-bred Showcase Days — Big Apple Showcase Day on May 31, Saratoga Showcase Day on August 24 and Empire Showcase Day on October 18 at Belmont Park as well as Friday Live at Saratoga, which will air Fridays from 5-6p.
Time Warner Cable Deportes announced a new deal that will see the channel broadcast 16 live Chivas USA matches. The first live game telecast on the network runs today when Chivas USA faces Portland at the Stub Hub Center in Carson at 7:30p. Network and veteran on-air presenter Ricardo Celis will call all of the play-by-play action for the 10 home and 6 on-the-road Chivas USA matches.
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ESPN announced the lineup of sponsors for the inaugural X Games Austin, set to begin on June 6 with live coverage on ESPN and ABC. Brands are set to include America’s Navy, Ford, GoPro and Monster Energy as top -tier sponsors while exclusive sponsors include Dos Equis, Dr Pepper and Harley-Davidson. Brands supporting the X Games for the first time are: Bing, Cricket Wireless, Dos Equis, Dr Pepper, DuPont Kevlar, Firemans #4, Fram, Gildan, GSD&M, Lance Snacks, OneDrive, Nokia and Torchy’s Tacos. Returning sponsors include GEICO, Harley-Davidson, Loctite, Oakley and Skype.
BMW extended its title sponsorship of the PGA TOUR’s BMW Championship through 2019. "Since becoming title sponsor of this historic tournament, BMW not only has been committed to elevating the stature of the BMW Championship as a playoff event, but also supporting the WGA and the Evans Scholars Foundation," PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem said. "BMW has been a terrific partner of both the PGA Tour and WGA, and we very much look forward to continuing this collaboration over the next five years."
The NBA Lottery was the champion of the Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings Weekly Top Ten Series and Specials list for the week ending May 25. The announcement generated 460,000 event-related Tweets that were seen by a Unique Audience of 5.9 million people. In sports events, the Heat/Pacers game on May 20 ranked at the top of the list with 932,000 event-related Tweets seen by a Unique Audience of 7 million people.
The Tiger Woods Foundation named Rick Singer as President and CEO of the organization where he will lead the foundation the now operated three PGA TOUR tournaments as well as seven Tiger Woods Learning Centers and the Earl Woods Scholarship Program. Singer joins from IBM, where he served as Vice President of Client Executive Marketing.
Yikes, tough one! The Kings can close out the series at 8p on NBCSN, while the Heat can reach the finals with a win on ESPN at 8:30p.
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Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Which MLB player was known as "The Wizard of Oz"? Answer: Ozzie Smith. Kudos: Teddy Coleman-Teddy Coleman Inc Productions/NY; Linda Lieberman-Big Fish Entertainment/IMG/NY; Barry McMullin-Premier Partnerships/NY; Mike Lee-BPN/NY; John Totaro-Totaro Communications/NY; Mike May-PHIT America/Wellington; Jerehmy White-BusyBuddy Books/Glen Rock; Wayne "World B." Otto-Pro-Am Sports/Boone; Randy Ingram-WBTW-TV/Myrtle Beach; Gretchen Brady-KDAF/Dallas; Bill Robertson-WCHA/St. Paul; Jim Hall-True Media/Columbia; Bill Goodfriend/Charter Media/St. Louis; Michael Jaquet-US Ski and Snowboard Assoc./Park City; Daniel Hanson/Vail; David Hauptman/Denver; Matt Sautter-OpenTV/Golden; Warren Weideman-Producer/LA; Jack Simmons-Fox Sports/LA; Jeff Mirkin-The Game Plane/Hollywood; Alan Perris/Beverly Hills; Brian Sullivan-KHQ-TV/Spokane.
Later — Chris
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