The Southeastern Conference named its heir, announcing that Greg Sankey would become the eighth commissioner of the conference. Replacing the retiring Mike Slive, who will be leaving in July, Sankey has served as Executive Associate Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer for the league office since 2012. “The universities of the SEC represent the greatest combination […]
Almost bracket time. Turner Sports and CBS Sports begin the road to the Final Four with the pairings announcement for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship with the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Selection Show on Sunday at 6p on CBS. Greg Gumbel hosts and will be joined by Clark Kellogg, Doug Gottlieb and […]
Will Ferrell will appear at five Arizona spring training baseball games and play nine positions today, in a stunt for a Funny or Die special airing later this month on HBO. Ferrell Takes the Field, in partnership with Major League Baseball, honors Bert Campaneris’ feat 50 years ago of playing every position on the field; […]
The “fracas” that got Jeremy Clarkson suspended from the BBC2’s Top Gear involved allegedly punching a producer, according to BBC News. Two of three remaining episodes in the season were pulled from the schedule. Clarkson, who has hosted the popular auto show since 2002, broke his finger in 2004 taking a swing at Piers Morgan. […]
Snapchat is looking to score partnerships with sports leagues. According to Digiday, the app is working on media-rights deals with the NCAA and Turner so it can feature live sports in the “Our Story” feature. Starting with this weekend’s NCAA Final Four tournament games, Snapchat plans to seal similar deals with other sports nets in […]
Verizon signed a multi-year deal with AwesomenessTV to add more than 200 hours of original content per year through over-the-top (OTT) video. Available only in the U.S., the AwesomenessTV channel will target teens and young millennials with new scripted and unscripted series; DreamWorksTV will include live action and animated short-form content as well as some […]
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Univision Deportes’ President Juan Carlos Rodriguez will be honored on April 16 at the Cynopsis Sports Media Awards. The sports leaders have been named the recipients of two the company’s annual accolades with Bettman receiving the 2015 Vision Award as League Executive of the Year. Juan Carlos Rodriguez will be […]
FOX Sports 1 pumped up its soccer viewership this week. The network reports that Sunday’s Liverpool/Blackburn match in FA Cup action notched 506,000 viewers according to Nielsen, making it the most-watched FA Cup match on English language cable since at least 2008. Later, the return of MLS to FOX Sports saw the Red Bulls/Sporting Kansas […]
Lester Holt is holding his own in the anchor seat. With five months left to go of Brian Williams’ suspension for embellished reporting, NBC News was first for the second consecutive week in viewers and key demos the week of March 2.
David Hasselhoff (Baywatch) is set to play dad to Ian Ziering’s character in Syfy’s Sharknado 3. Hasselhoff joins Bo Derek, who will play the mother of Tara Reid’s character in the Asylum production, premiering in July.
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