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14 years ago @ http://fangsbites.com/ - Pac-12 Conference Rele... · 0 replies · +1 points

Presumably some (or all) these are ESPN Thursday night games...

Thur., Sept. 27 - Stanford at Washington
Thurs., Oct. 4 - USC at Utah
Thurs., Oct. 11 - Arizona State at Colorado
Thurs., Oct. 18 - Oregon at Arizona State

I'd imagine the 9/27, 10/11 and 10/18 games are for sure. Arizona St-Colorado isn't exactly a great matchup.

14 years ago @ http://fangsbites.com/ - ESPN Signs 12 Year Agr... · 1 reply · +1 points

So basically, main ESPN will have live coverage for the entire 2nd week. Not too bad. I think tennis fans are getting a great deal here, especially with the concurrent coverage on ESPN/2 for 3 of the busiest days. This means every quarterfinal will be aired live in its entirety. I see why Wimbledon couldn't turn this down, especially with the extra money ESPN threw at them.

14 years ago @ http://fangsbites.com/ - TNT Airs "Wide Open" C... · 0 replies · +1 points

If I lived in the United States, I'd love this. Living in Canada, TSN still has to take commercial breaks (well they usually do "side-by-side") and they always manage to screw it up. Let's hope they don't this year.

Next to BBC's commercial free coverage of Formula 1, this is probably the most watchable race coverage on TV though.

14 years ago @ http://fangsbites.com/ - The 3rd Annual Fang's ... · 0 replies · +2 points

I agree with much of this, but Duthie is certainly better than Patrick.

I know you really, really hate Pierre, but there is a reason every network wants him, he is quite possibly the best (not the worst) NHL analyst out there. I understand that people in the US who only hear him talking over Emrick and Edzo don't really understand this, but when he works with Chris Cuthbert there is no better tandem in hockey (including Doc/Edzo and Hughson/Simpson).

Whenever Glenn Healy retires you should create a new award in his name for the most bitter analyst. He'd certainly win it this year. No way he deserves a mention for inside the glass. Kevin Weekes is a pretty bad game analyst too. He is good in studio though. Mark Lee deserves a very honourable mention for being the worst play-by-play.

15 years ago @ Truth & Rumours | On S... - Good World Cup coverag... · 0 replies · +1 points

The 5 best football leagues in the World are in England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. Last time I checked four of those made up the European contingent of the G8. Yep soccer is mostly played in countries with no money. The two best leagues in South America are in Argentina and Brazil, both of those countries are in the G20.

Nobody is saying that MLS isn't a terrible league, everyone knows it is. That certainly doesn't mean that there aren't soccer fans in Canada and it far from proves that soccer is a boring sport. That would be like saying hockey is boring because nobody watches the British League (yes one exists).

Of course football is big in poor countries, so is baseball. The reason is simple, they are fairly cheap to play. Is baseball boring because it is huge in the Dominican, Cuba and Venezuela? Football is played by pretty much EVERY country, so it isn't mostly played by poor countries, it is mostly played by EVERY country. Pretty much every country on the planet enters World Cup qualifying.

Oh and of the 32 teams at the 2010 World Cup, 12 are in the G20, and Canada and Russia were the only G8 members who weren't there.

15 years ago @ Truth & Rumours | On S... - Good World Cup coverag... · 0 replies · +1 points

There are no assists in soccer, at least its not an important stat if there are.

15 years ago @ Truth & Rumours | On S... - Good World Cup coverag... · 0 replies · 0 points

Nice shot at Rooney, as a Manchester United fan I disagree, but you may be correct. He certainly hasn't played like the world's best for England recently. Ronaldo actually played really good today for once.

Actually I think the World Cup has been much better the last few days, albeit partially because of France. The Cameroon-Denmark game on Saturday was great.

I agree on CBC's coverage, Collins and De Vos are as good as CBC is going to get I guess. ESPN's coverage has been better, I enjoy hearing the likes of Martin Tyler, Ian Darke, Ally McCoist and Efan Ekoku when ABC has coverage on the weekends. ESPN is employing analysts from at least 5 different countries on their studio show as well, it provides a different perspective.

Just wondering, why do you mention the hockey/NBC thing now? It happened over two weeks ago.

Have a good summer Bill. I think that your first piece back should be about how good of a hockey writer James Mirtle is, and maybe you can follow that up with one on Brian Burke being the best GM in hockey. Just kidding of course.

15 years ago @ Truth & Rumours | On S... - The CBC's World Cup pa... · 1 reply · 0 points

I'll never understand why people find football, er sorry soccer, boring. There are so many things going on at once on the pitch that it just can't be boring if you enough about it. The thing that I love about both hockey and soccer is watching a play develop away from the puck/ball that results in a goal.

16 years ago @ Truth & Rumours | On S... - The CBC's World Cup pa... · 2 replies · 0 points

John Helm, David Woods, Steve Banyard, Gary Bloom and Kevin Keatings.

Most of these guys are terrible. Remember, working for the international feed means you aren't good enough for BBC and ITV. Just because they are British, doesn't make them good. Keatings and Banyard are good and Woods is decent, but I can't stand the other two. ABC will be using Martin Tyler, Ian Darke and Derek Rae, all of whom work for British TV channels (Darke and Tyler for Sky Sport and Rae for ESPN UK).

I really wish CBC would use the BBC/ITV commentators, but otherwise their coverage should be very good. I like John Collins a lot.

16 years ago @ Truth & Rumours | On S... - ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS:... · 0 replies · +1 points

We don't have Rogers Cable and that's it. BellAliantTV is also available in Fredericton, plus there is always Shaw Direct and Bell TV satellite. I switched from Rogers to Shaw Direct a few years ago and couldn't be more happy. TSN and Sportsnet are both in the basic package, so you don't lose anything there.

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