Monthly Archives: July 2007

Basketball’s Olympic road runs through Las Vegas and TV

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 24, 2007 | Comments closed
(UPDATED ON AUGUST 16) ESPN2 and ESPN Classic will televise all of Team USA’s games in the FIBA America’s men’s basketball championships from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Net New York and NBA-TV will also televise the tournament. The top two finishers qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The United States is a favorite to advance to the Olympics. The [...]
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Discover a musical Renegade

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 24, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 24, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 19, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 18, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 18, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 18, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 14, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 12, 2007 | Comments closed
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

By Ken McMillan | Published: July 11, 2007 | Comments closed
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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