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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Discover a musical Renegade
This week’s Renegade Clubhouse Report on Cablevision will feature a Hudson Valley player who plays more than just baseball. Host Charlie Cornacchio won’t reveal who the player is, but he has video proof that one Renegade is pretty good with the musical instruments, too.
“I was told he plays guitar and piano,” Cornacchio said. “So I [...]
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Dungy to visit Letterman show
Comedian David Letterman should be in his full glory on Tuesday night when Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy visits the Late Night show on CBS to promote his new book.
Letterman hails from Indianapolis and loves everything Hoosier.
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Muchos gracias, Senor George
Jack George of Time Warner Cable in Middletown informs me that the cable system carries the Spanish-language ESPN Deportes on Channel 821 (the Spanish tier of programming). That means folks who subscribe to that tier can watch the daily coverage of the Pan American Games.
ESPN will provide English-language programming from the Games this weekend. ESPN2 [...]
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Golf and bagpipes
The British Open golf championships return to Scotland this week, and Tiger Woods will be gunning for his third consecutive Open title.
TNT will air a preview show at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, followed by 12 hours of coverage (7 a.m.-7 p.m.) on both Thursday and Friday. ABC will show highlights of the first two rounds at [...]
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Boxing, football talk on Daily News Live
Boxing and football get some air play Wednesday as Daily News Live on SportsNet New York features interviews with world champion Oscar De LaHoya and Kerry Rhodes from the New York Jets. The guest panel includes Daily News writers Bill Madden and Anthony McCarron, Chris Carlin from WFAN and Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated.
On Thursday, [...]
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Renegades pick great time for TV outing
The Hudson Valley Renegades are en fuego (my tribute to the ESPN Radio departure of Dan Patrick) of late, which could make Wednesday’s Time Warner Cable 6 broadcast very exciting.
The Renegades are playing the State College Spikes, a Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate. Hudson Valley beat State College, 5-1, on Tuesday night at Dutchess Stadium. It was [...]
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Pan Am Games snub
The Pan American Games opened on Friday in Brazil. For the next two weeks, the “Olympics” of the Western Hemisphere will take place, but you’re not going to see most of it.
ESPN bought the American television rights, but has decided that the only audience for the Pan Am Games is its Spanish-speaking fans. If you [...]
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The NFL preseason is a month away
There will be 19 National Football League preseason games televised in the tri-county region in August on broadcast and cable television. All four Jets and Giants games will be aired on one of the New York network outlets.
The NFL Network — which has yet to be picked up by Time Warner Cable and Cablevision — is [...]
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Let’s talk about Dem Bums
Daily News Live features a panel discussion with writers Tim Smith, Roy Johnson and Ohm Youngmisuk. The guests on Wednesday’s show include Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, former Major League pitcher Ralph Branca and Ross Greenberg of HBO Sports, who will talk about a documentary on the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The show will air on SportsNet New York at 5 [...]
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Basketball’s Olympic road runs through Las Vegas and TV