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Recent developments make me optimistic that a couple decades from now people won’t think I’m as much of a screwball. A year ago ESPN purchased the broadcast rights to 21 NCAA championships, including the entire women’s basketball tournament and the Women’s College World Series. A new network called College Sports Television, available on DirecTV, is providing coverage of just about every aspect of college sports that the major networks don’t pick up on. Maybe someday I’ll be able to introduce a column...
...easy answer, at least in my mind. Harvard wasn’t on ESPN. Nobody from our school or any of our family friends had ever gone there to my knowledge, and I had never been to Boston or cared much about colleges. Ms. Albarelli was aghast, and before we left she made us promise that when we went on our summer vacation trip to Cape Cod (we had also never been there) we would go visit this grand Harvard place of which she spoke...
...proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic Sports in 1997 for $180 million, with Bedol making millions (he won't be more specific...
Today Bedol, 44, is again pushing ignored goods, as a co-founder and the president of College Sports Television (CSTV), the only 24-hour network devoted solely to college athletics. Major broadcast networks, as well as cable outlets like ESPN and Fox Sports Net, already have dibs on big-conference basketball and football. So CSTV, which went on air in April, will field a second-string lineup of college sports, including basketball and football from conferences such as the Horizon League (Butler, Detroit Mercy, Youngstown State), plus track, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball and--yes--squash. CSTV joins several niche sports...
...whether it’s as simple as a stroll across the river to take in a few innings of baseball’s doubleheader with Dartmouth this weekend or a few hours of ESPN before hitting the books, we have to make sure to live the end of the school year. We’re lucky to have more than 24 hours at our disposal. Let’s use them wisely...