Viewing Picks for February 22, 2020
MLB Spring Training begins in earnest today and we have the NBA in primetime on ABC
Trey Wingo posts pic of a bear on his back porch, even though the pic is from 2017
This bear actually tried to get into an older woman's house in May 2017 because it smelled brownies.
Did you catch Marshawn Lynch in the ‘Westworld,’ Season 3 trailer?
Is Beast Mode man or machine in the future?
Top Rank president Todd duBoef talks Wilder-Fury, state of boxing industry
Wilder-Fury is poised to be one of the biggest heavyweight boxing matches in years.
Former Yahoo Sports editor Kevin Kaduk bounces back with Midway Minute, newsletter devoted to Chicago sports
"So much of the media has given way to those algorithms and streams. I wanted to take the power back."
Tony Luftman on NHLN coverage of the Miracle on Ice team’s 40th anniversary reunion: “This team, it transcends the sport.”
"It reminded me of Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner says 'I am pitching to Shoeless Joe Jackson.' In my mind, I was going 'I am talking to Mike Eruzione.' This was truly the highlight of my career."
David Ortiz is the latest player-turned-broadcaster to bash Astros’ whistleblower Mike Fiers: “You look like you’re a snitch”
"So you look like you're a snitch. Why you gotta talk about it after?"
San Francisco Chronicle pulls “Aubrey Huff wasn’t invited over Trump support” op-ed after Huff refutes its premise to Chronicle reporter
Ryan Moore's op-ed included "According to Huff, Giants CEO Larry Baer said the board did not approve of Huff’s tweets or his support of President Trump." Huff then told the Chronicle that Baer didn't specifically mention his support of Trump.
Charlie Ergen calls Dish merger with DirecTV “inevitable,” makes overture to Sinclair RSNs after first quarterly SlingTV subscriber loss
"The growth in TV is not coming from linear TV providers, but from huge programmers. You just can't swim upstream against a real tide of big players."
Your NBA announcing schedule for 2/20-2/24
Thursday, February 20 Brooklyn at Philadelphia, TNT 8 p.m. – Marv Albert, Chris Webber & Allie LaForce Houston...
ESPN will roll with Matt Vasgersian and Alex Rodriguez pairing on Sunday Night Baseball, won’t replace Jessica Mendoza
Sunday Night Baseball will be going with a two-man booth for the first time in more than half a decade.
Viewing Picks for February 20, 2020
The NBA returns from its All-Star Break with a doubleheader on TNT plus NBCSN again airs a Washington Capitals game in hopes Alex Ovechkin scores his 700th career goal
NFL CBA proposal reportedly includes two extra playoff teams and two fewer byes, adding two wild card games annually for TV
Wild-card games drew from 26.4 million to 35.8 million viewers in 2019-20, so there could be a lot of TV benefits from this plan.