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| NCAA gymnastics championship to air on CBS Sports Posted: 06 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT ADVERTISEMENT FAYETTEVILLE — CBS Sports is airing a tape delay broadcast of the 2010 NCAA Gymnastics Championship on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. Arkansas advanced to the NCAA Championship for the fourth time in its eight years, the fourth time in five years and the third straight season. The Razorbacks, who finished second in the NCAA West Regional, finished fifth in the NCAA Championship Session II semifinal. Overall, Arkansas finished 11th in the country for its third straight top 12 finish, its fourth top 12 finish in five years and its sixth consecutive finish among the nation's top 15. Highlights in this year's Session II semifinal included senior Casey Jo Magee finishing second in the nation with a 39.55 in the all-around. Sophomore Jaime Pisani won the Session II semifinal floor with a school championship record score of 9.925, and Magee tied for first on beam and bars. Magee earned first-team All-America honors in the all-around, on bars, on beam and on floor. Pisani was a first-team All-American on floor and vault, and second-team in the all-around. This article was published May 6, 2010 at 10:46 a.m. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Mini-camps beckon for summer gymnastics, sports at MAdison YMCA Posted: 06 May 2010 04:19 AM PDT | 
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| TV-Radio Notebook: Mixing sports talk, politics not easy Posted: 06 May 2010 10:27 PM PDT With the Rockets done and the Dynamo struggling and the Astros in freefall, this was one of those weeks where sports-talk hosts were looking for material. And into their laps, fortunately or not, fell the Arizona immigration issue. The trick, for hosts and producers, was to keep the discussion about the nexus of politics and sports, particularly with the Arizona Diamondbacks in town, while avoiding the type of discussion better suited, if even then, to talk radio and prime time cable TV. "Our job is to talk about it from a sports point of view," said Gavin Spittle, program director at KILT (610 AM). "We talked about should the Suns wear their Los Suns jerseys, should sports get involved in government issues. "When we do that, people want to relate it to the law. But whether you agree or disagree (with the Arizona statute) is not the question. The question is should sports and politics mix?" At KBME (790 AM), midday host Matt Thomas had his own answer to the question. "My stance was that I don't' know how much good comes out of any type of protests," he said. "I don't think that putting 50 people in front of a sports venue in Houston will change peoples' minds. "We didn't want to exclude the topic, but because I'm a sports-talk host, I did want to keep it to a certain angle. We talked about what baseball should do, whether the (2011) All-Star Game should be pulled from Arizona. But I didn't want to go Rush Limbaugh. It was how do we talk about it while talking sports."
R.I.P., Ernie HarwellHundreds of fans began lining up before 6 a.m. Thursday at Comerica Park in Detroit to pass by the casket of Ernie Harwell, the Hall of Fame baseball announcer who died Tuesday from cancer at 92. One fan told the Detroit Free Press he arrived before midnight Wednesday to be first in line; by mid-afternoon, more than 5,000 had paid their respects. I met Harwell, who broadcast MLB games for 55 years, in 1999 during one of the Tigers' interleague visits to Houston. His enthusiasm for the game remained undimmed by the more than 8,000 games he had called over the years. "I've been at it for 52 years, and something still will come up that I've never seen before," he said. "It's amazing that there are so many nuances to it. Some rule will come up that you've never run across or there will be some goofy play that has never happened before. ... Every game is a challenge." Among those paying tribute to Harwell this week was Astros announcer Milo Hamilton, who had known him since the 1950s. "Every city and every area and every team has its favorites, and you judge them by that, of course, but Ernie was bigger than life in Detroit and in the state of Michigan," he said. "When you talk about the (Vin) Scullys of the world, you have to list Ernie Harwell not far behind. At the worst, he's in the top five, and even that might not be good enough." Author Curt Smith, indeed, listed Harwell third in his book Voices of Summer, behind only Scully and Jack Brickhouse, as baseball's greatest announcer. He said the outpouring of affection in the wake of Harwell's death "has no parallel in baseball. It is the definition of a broadcaster as an extended member of the family." "People die, and you respect them and admire them, and some try to emulate them, but that misses the mark," Smith added. "Ernie may have had the most accomplished life beyond the microphone of any broadcaster — lyricist, author, family man. It was an extraordinary life." Scully, typically, perhaps summed it up best. "I could never say 'God bless you, Ernie,' because God had blessed him indeed," he said.
Midday one-liners at 97.5A.J. Hoffman, the new midday co-host with Fred Faour on KFNC (97.5 FM), likes to mix sports with comedy, so he's got plenty of ammunition these days watching Astros games. "I said a couple of days ago they should let them use aluminum bats to make it fair," he said. Hoffman, 29, comes to Houston after working six years at KVET, the Clear Channel-owned station in Austin that is the flagship for University of Texas football and basketball. He grew up in Brazoria County but has lived across the state and graduated from Beeville Jones. "I've done well in the ratings for the last several years, and it's an opportunity to test myself and see if I'm ready to work in a bigger market," Hoffman said. "My style of radio tends to lean to that 18-34 demographic, which is great for an FM signal, and I think I'll be able to give them something they haven't had."
Coming upDan Patrick apparently has become NBC's designated backup to Bob Costas for event hosting duties. Patrick will host the network's coverage of The Players Championship from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., The Golf Channel has today's second round. … CBS has the NCAA women's gymnastics championships at 2 p.m. Saturday. Performers include Susan Jackson of Spring, a senior at LSU who won the individual all-around. … HBO will re-air the Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley fight at 8:45 p.m. Saturday. … FoxSportsHouston.com will webcast the Texas High School Lacross League state title games at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Division I semifinals pit Episcopal against Dallas St. Mark's and Dallas Jesuit against Highland Park, and the Division II semis are Coppell-San Antonio Regan and Houston Christian-Round Rock Stony Point. … Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern will produce Rise, a film about about the 1961 U.S. figure skating team that was killed in a plane crash in Belgium, and the restoration of the figure skating program that culminated in Peggy Fleming's 1968 Olympic gold medal. The film is scheduled for release next year. Lax and Stern also are collaborating with Hannah Storm on a documentary about Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova for ESPN's 30 for 30 series. … Speaking of which, the next 30 for 30 installment is Ice Cube's Straight Outta LA, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, on the Raiders' sojourn in Los Angeles in the 1980s and '90s and the degree to which the team's silver and black colors and outlaw reputation was adopted by the city's hip-hop and gang cultures. Unfortunately, after a couple of excellent 30 for 30 shows, including a hilarious episode on fantasy sports and an inspiring look at Nelson Mandela and the 1995 South African rugby team, Straight Outta LA comes across as parochial and dated. And I had to laugh when Ice Cube rhapsodized that no matter where the Raiders play, they will always belong to Los Angeles. As Houston learned with Bud Adams and the Oilers, the Raiders, no matter where they play, belonged then and belong now to Al Davis. I'm amused that Ice Cube, in this context, turns out to be just another sucker. … For the benefit of those of you who have advanced to the next dimension of consumer electronics, DirecTV will broadcast July 10 and 11 games between the Yankees and Mariners in 3D. … The Insight Bowl will move from NFL Network to ESPN, which will air the game from Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 28. … Moving to the extreme fringe of sports, Twisted Sisters, veteran filmmaker Chuck Braverman's documentary about female bodybuilders, airs at 8 p.m. Sunday on MSNBC. …
Four DVRs, no waitingWhile discussing the life and death of Ernie Harwell, I asked Milo Hamilton how he was holding up during what at the time was an eight-game Astros losing streak. He said he's doing his job, which is to accentuate the positive. "I owe it to the sponsors and the fans," he said. "I can't become someone who dwells on the negative, because that's there for everyone to know. I have to do the game, and as my mentor, Bob Elson, told me, the game's the thing." As for Curt Smith, who makes periodic Houston stops to visit in-laws, he's working on a book for release next year titled A Talk in the Park: Nine Decades of Tales from the Broadcast Booth. Smith also is looking forward to Jon Miller's acceptance speech for the Ford Frick Award at the Hall of Fame later this year, and he's demanded that Miller perform not only his Vin Scully impersonation but also his impersonation of Japanese and Venezuelan announcers impersonating Scully. You can find it on YouTube, and it's an absolute howl. … Speaking of Hall of Fame broadcasters, new in bookstores is Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas, on the late former Astros and Phillies announcer. … NBC averaged 16.5 million viewers for the Kentucky Derby, up from 16.3 million last year, with a 9.8 Nielsen rating and 28 share. Both rank as the most-watched Derby broadcasts since an average of 18.5 million watched Sunday Silence win in 1989. … According to the research company Kantar Media, American Idol was the top-grossing prime time show in 2009 with $849.6 million in ad revenue. Sunday Night Football on NBC was second at $374 million. Both numbers are down from 2008, when Idol brought in $879.5 million and SNF brought in $434.5 million. … Before it aligned with Turner Sports on its new NCAA Tournament deal, CBS considered sublicensing the 2010 through 2013 Tournaments to ESPN in an effort to avoid $200 million in annual losses, according to The New York Times. Negotiations stalled when CBS opted to align with Turner, the newspaper said. … A couple of weeks after signing on with MLB Network as a studio analyst, veteran Kevin Millar signed this week to moonlight as a player with the independent minor league St. Paul Saints. … Buried in my e-mail in-basket was the recent announcement that World Wrestling Entertainment's Friday Night SmackDown is moving in September to Syfy from MyNetworkTV affiliates, including KTXH (Channel 20). … Also overlooked was the recent announcement that Chris Berman has signed a contract extension to remain with ESPN. … Intriguing speculation from Sports Business Journal that Comcast may try to beef up its sport tiers by adding regional sports networks (absent live games, owing to blackout rules) in the same manner as DirecTV. Time Warner, Verizon and AT&T, for example, have added the YES Network in several markets. The magazine said Comcast is studying plans to add several RSNs by late summer. … Finally, Charles Barkley offered this gem of sagacity to Dan Patrick on the Dez Bryant/Dolphins brouhaha: "You shouldn't ask someone if your mom was a prostitute, but if you tell someone your dad was a pimp, that makes you an idiot." I think Chuckster may have stumbled onto something here. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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