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Welch, validating in part the in-studio analysis of U.S. College Hockey Online columnist and ESPN college hockey correspondent Adam Wodon during the NCAA tournament selection show. Wodon spent the better portion of his Harvard-related air time bashing the Crimson defense for hanging netminder Dov Grumet-Morris out to dry in the ECAC final, won by Cornell 3-1. He was right—Harvard’s blueliners had played below their potential for the most part. But hearing it from Wodon, whose passion for the Big Red is among college hockey’s worst kept secrets...
NOTE: Tomorrow’s regional semifinal contest in Amherst will be broadcast nationally on ESPN-U and Altitude at 3:30 p.m., with regional coverage provided by CN8 in Massachusetts, Cox New England, and Metro Sports Network in Kansas City...
...mores have become looser in just a few years. In 1999 it was shocking for Fox's sitcom Action to use obscenities that were bleeped out. Now the same words are bleeped routinely (often barely) all over network TV--and go unbleeped on basic-cable networks like FX and ESPN, let alone Showtime and HBO. In an episode of Fox's since-canceled Keen Eddie, three men enlist a hooker to arouse a horse to extract semen from him. The PTC recently protested an episode of NBC's Medium in which the police burst into a bedroom to find...
...would roil a very profitable business. And so last week Disney broke ranks with its media brethren and backed FCC regulation of cable--as an alternative to Congress imposing à la carte offerings. (Disney's cable holdings include tamer channels like ABC Family and The Disney Channel, but its ESPN often lets profanities fly.) Some broadcast executives, meanwhile, have called for decency control over cable so that they could better compete with cable channels. The greatest hope for those who want to extend the state's power over media may be in the fact that most executives would rather lose...
...also granted interviews to ESPN Radio, the New York Times, and, most importantly, The Harvard Crimson...