Word: espn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started calling penalties against players for taunting and excessively celebrating after touchdowns. Still, it's players like Philadelphia receiver Terrell Owens--who trampled the Dallas Cowboys logo after a touchdown this fall--who get most of the attention, since their antics are replayed and reinforced on ESPN and sports talk shows...
...many businesses survive, never mind thrive, with a customer-satisfaction rate of 50%. Somehow that ratio doesn't do justice to the 68,756 patrons packing spiffy Gillette Stadium and the 5.5 million homes watching ESPN as quarterback Tom Brady leads the New England Patriots past the Buffalo Bills. Armed with a game plan designed by the league's best coach, Bill Belichick, Brady dismantles the Bills. No doubt Bills customers at home in western New York are disappointed. Two weeks earlier, it was the Pats turn to disappoint, courtesy of a whipping from the surging Pittsburgh Steelers. The real...
...keep all those eyeballs on the game--and on those commercials--the networks are constantly experimenting to make the TV football experience even better. The new frontier: high-definition broadcasts. Fox already shows six games a week in high def, CBS three, and both ESPN's Sunday-night game and ABC's Monday Night Football are available at higher resolutions. The difference between standard and high definition is striking. With high def, you can recognize faces in the crowd, and the wider screen lets you see that safety backing up into coverage...
...what are the things you're doing with Barry? He's an incredible player. I want to still be able to work out at that age and keep playing,'" Giambi testified, according to the Chronicle. "And that's how the conversation first started." Buster Olney, a baseball writer for ESPN the Magazine who has a vote in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame elections, calls Giambi's court appearance the "Mount Everest of steroids and baseball testimony. Nothing else is going to come close...
Sources: New York Times (2); Washington Post (2); U.S. Census Bureau (2); Reuters; ESPN...