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...court, could prove to be a major weapon in Lin’s athletic arsenal. These skills would be especially dangerous for the Crimson’s opposition if Lin continues to gain experience and composure over Harvard’s first few games, becoming more able to channel and control his intensity. “He has a fearlessness about him,” Amaker says. “That’s good—as long as he plays under control.” Lin also recognizes that this lack of control is an area he needs...
...Bonds' surpassing Hank Aaron's home-run record in far-off San Francisco. But viewers who caught the No.756 coup de circuit from Toulouse weren't squinting at a blurry feed from mlb.com Instead, many Europeans watched Bonds' blast on the North American Sports Network (NASN)--a channel that is spreading that particular strain of U.S. sports mania to Europe...
...expats, NASN now beams a variety of more than 800 live or slightly delayed U.S. and Canadian sporting events to 10million homes across Europe. This year NASN has added nine countries, including Portugal and Kazakhstan, bringing its total to 32, with the number of digital platforms carrying the channel in each market growing just as rapidly...
Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120million--say their goal is to reach 100million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...
Though marquee U.S. leagues are NASN's big draw, the channel doesn't shrink from sports that even Americans ignore such as Arena and Canadian football and Major League Lacrosse. As for the U.S. version of the global game, NASN dropped Major League Soccer when viewers complained that they got better matches from local leagues. That means L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham's best chance of appearing on NASN is if he can start bending curveballs like L.A. Dodgers star Brad Penny...