Major League Baseball All-Star Game Returns to Fox Sports en Espanol for Third Consecutive Year (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES----June 29, 2006--For the third year in a row, Fox Sports en Espanol will bring the excitement of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game to Spanish-speaking audiences throughout the United States....more...Tilley loses full-time role on CN8 sports (phillyburbs.com)
Thursday's announcement that CN8 will shut down its 1 p.m., 7 p.m., and 10 p.m. news means changes to its sports division. The biggest change is that the face of CN8 sports since 2000, Lou Tilley, will no longer have a full-time role at the network....more... Notes: Hall of Fame awards Visser; Pats' Sullivan arrested; Bears extend Hillenmeyer (USA Today)
Sports reporter and broadcaster Lesley Visser can add another "first" to her list. Visser, of CBS Sports, will become the first woman to receive the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. The annual award recognizes "longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football."...more... What's On: Major League Baseball, Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 p.m., WGN (Vancouver Province)
Trail native Jason Bay and the Pirates host the White Sox today. BASEBALL: MLB, Atlanta at N.Y. Yankees, 10 a.m., TBS; Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m., WGN; Washington at Toronto, 4 p.m., TSN....more... All-Star Balloting Ends; Online Voting in Last 24 Hours Results in 2 Lead Changes; Teams to Be Announced Sunday at 7:00 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Fan voting for the starting teams for the 77th All-Star Game, to be played Tuesday, July 11 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, ended last night with the conclusion of the Monster 2006 Online All-Star Balloting on MLB.com....more... Fans still have some All-Star say (MLB.com)
Fans still have some All-Star say...more... Fox Sports Radio -- 6 a.m. WBLF 970 (Centre Daily Times)
Fox Sports Radio -- noon WBLF 970 Scholastic softball, District 6 All-Star Game No. 1 -- 4:30 p.m. WBLF 970 College baseball, College World Series, North Carolina vs. Oregon State, Game 1 -- 6:45 p.m. WMAJ 1450...more... Transfer rule change? (Sports Illustrated)
Winthrop's Gregg Marshall has accepted the job as men's basketball coach at the College of Charleston, ending the most successful coaching run in Big South Conference history. -- Charlotte Observer...more... Visser liked football early (USA Today)
Lesley Visser, named Thursday as the first woman to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, graciously credits those who've helped her through the years. "I asked Santa for a pair of shoulder pads and a bongo drum (when I was 9 years old). Can you imagine? My mother must have needed a vodka."...more... |