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Your Week 1 NFL TV schedule

By Ryan The NFL is playing a game tonight, and it actually counts for something! The Tennessee Titans take on the Super Bowl XLIII champion Pittsburgh Steelers in Heinz Field. It’s the first regular-season game for NBC’s new broadcast team of Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, following the retirement of John Madden. Other national TV games of note is the Sunday night matchup at Lambeau Field with Jay Cutler playing in his first regular-season game as a Chicago Bear, taking on the Green Bay Packers. And on Monday night, ESPN has a doubleheader with Terrell Owens making his Buffalo Bills […]

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College football kickoff weekend schedule on ESPN networks

By Ryan Prepared for some collegiate pigskin? There are 28 games over the next five days on all of ESPN/ABC’s TV, radio, web and mobile media properties. Fifteen of the top 25 teams are in action on ESPN networks this weekend, including No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 5 Alabama, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Virginia Tech and No. 8 Mississippi. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU And ABC College Football Kickoff Week Schedule Sept. 3-7 Thursday, Sept. 3 South Carolina at N.C. State, 7pm ET, ESPN North Texas at Ball State, 7:30pm ET, ESPNU Oregon at Boise State, 10:15pm ET, ESPN

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ESPN’s “E:60”: Plaxico Burress, Tom Ellenson and Parkersburg, Iowa

By Ryan Features on the Tuesday, Aug. 25 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: Plaxico Burress — Former N.Y. Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, will talk in detail with correspondent Jeremy Schaap in an exclusive E:60 interview, Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. ET, about the early morning hours of Nov. 29, when he accidentally shot himself in the leg with his own gun at the Latin Quarter nightclub in Midtown N.Y., and about the two-year jail sentence he now faces. Burress pleaded guilty Thursday, Aug. 20, to the weapons charge and avoided what would have been […]

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ESPN’s “E:60”: Larry Fitzgerald, Davorte Kelly and Pat Venditte

By Ryan Features on the Tuesday, Aug. 18 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: Larry Fitzgerald E:60 profiles acrobatic and unstoppable wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who helped the Arizona Cardinals reach Super Bowl XLIII. E:60 follows Fitzgerald through his rigorous offseason workouts, as well as jet skiing, and playing basketball games with NFL stars. E:60 also looks at his relationship with his mother. Rachel Nichols reports. Davonte Kelly E:60 tells the story of 11-year-old Davonte Kelly, a Brooklyn, N.Y., baseball player who survived being shot in the head while awaiting his turn on team picture day. Just […]

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Michael Vick on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Donte Stallworth on ESPN’s “E:60”

By Ryan Two news series this week will interview sports figures who’ve been in a heap of legal trouble lately. From ESPN: Suspended Cleveland Browns Wide Receiver Donte Stallworth Speaks Exclusively to E:60 Tuesday, August 11, at 7pm ET Suspended Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth, in an exclusive E:60 interview, will talk in detail with correspondent Michael Smith on Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 7pm ET, about the early morning hours of March 14, when Stallworth killed a man while driving under the influence in Miami. A plea deal was reached in June, and Stallworth was sentenced to 30 days […]

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“E:60” returns: Vince Young, Anna Rawson, Cheese Rolling And James Stewart

By Ryan E:60, ESPN’s prime-time sport newsmagazine program, returns Tuesday, July 28, at 7pm, the first of five new shows to be aired weekly through Aug. 25. Tuesday’s program includes: Vince Young – In his first sit-down interview about the murder of his longtime mentor, Steve McNair, Vince Young tells E:60‘s Michael Smith he is ready to lead the Tennessee Titans again, and discusses the emotional impact of the murder and how he will honor is father-figure’s legacy. Young also provides details on the September 2008 night teammates feared he was missing and contemplating suicide after a game against Jacksonville […]

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Where To Watch The British Open Golf Tournament

The British Open is my favorite of golf’s four majors. There’s just something awesome about the game being played on the isle of its birth, on those old majestic Royal & Ancient courses. The 2009 Open Championship will be played at the Ailsa Course at Turnberry Golf Club, Scotland, July 16-19. This is the fourth time Turnberry has hosted the Open (previously held there in 1977, 1986 and 1994). Padraig Harrington (pictured) has won the two previous Opens, and will look for a third championship this weekend. Harrington followed up his 2008 British Open victory with a win at the […]

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Where To Watch The NBA Draft (Now With 100 Percent Less Stephen A. Smith)

I’ll readily admit that the NBA Draft is not something I typically take a great deal of interest in. This year, I am exceptionally disinterested because 1) This draft class is horrible, and 2) There will be no Stephen A. Smith on ESPN’s draft coverage. Over the past few drafts, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed the Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentlemen and the work they’ve done at the NBA Draft. Details of ESPN’s NBA Draft coverage (and last year’s awesome tribute to Cheez Doodles): ESPN At 63rd Annual NBA Draft Draft Televised in HD For First Time For the seventh […]

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Where To Watch The U.S. Open Golf Tournament

The U.S. Open Championship golf tournament from the Black Course at Bethpage State in Farmingdale, N.Y., tees off Thursday, June 18, at 10am ET on ESPN. Tiger Woods, who won last year’s U.S. Open in an 18-hole playoff thriller against Rocco Mediate, returns to the site of his 2002 U.S. Open win. ESPN and NBC share coverage of the first two rounds on Thursday and Friday, with NBC taking over coverage of the third and final rounds. ESPN and GOLF CHANNEL have plenty of highlights and news/analysis shows surrounding the open. Full tournament TV schedule with additional broadcast plans from […]

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“E:60”: UFC President Dana White, Binghamton Bar Brawl, Matt Steven, And Sports Gambling In Delaware

Features on the Tuesday, May 12 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: UFC President Dana White — At 39, Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, is both czar and star of one of the world’s fastest growing sports — mixed martial arts. He is at the epicenter of an enterprise that has moved from spectacle to sport in less than a decade. Mostly, White is outside the box, and at times, out of control. E:60 had unprecedented access to White over a four-month period, following him to UFC events in the United States and Canada. […]