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...much less college sports fans—we were, once upon a time, relegated to buying tickets to games in order to directly experience the protagonists of our favorite sporting events. In conjunction with this development arose the popularity of radio, then television, and cable television, and ESPN, and satellites, and NFL Sunday Ticket, and most recently, packages like MLB.com’s MLB.TV. Amazing, right...
...phrase from Visa, one of his sponsors--everywhere he wants to be. Since the 19-year-old became the first person to break five individual world records at a single meet last summer, his mighty fine physique has graced a slew of magazine covers (including those of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ESPN and TIME), thousands of credit cards (Chase started issuing them in April) and an unprecedented six national TV commercials that feature the hydrophilic Olympic hopeful doing everything from racing a dolphin (for Argent Mortgage) to swimming laps across the Atlantic (for Visa). Meanwhile, Phelps sponsor Speedo has garnered boatloads...
...stage—began to empty out, leaving only various foreign draft picks and hardcore VIPs, the people from the Section 300’s of MSG filed in as if the third-class passengers had overtaken the deck of the Titanic. And in a beautifully coordinated scheme, the ESPN crew—Mike Tirico, Jay Bilas, Smith and Tolbert—was attacked on three fronts...
...findings that Thompson and Haninger presented on ESPN came from a series of articles they have co-authored on video games, which have looked at the rates of violence in T- and E-rated video games. The most press they received followed the publication of their findings of T-rated video games in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Feb. 18, though they were invited to appear on another ESPN show after an earlier article was published...
Afterwards, the researchers were invited to collaborate on a piece that another ESPN program, “Outside the Lines,” was doing on video games licensed by different leagues. In particular, they highlighted NFL Blitz, which allows a person playing to the game to hit and jump on an opponent after he has been already tackled, an activity not allowed in the normal rules of football...