The News Review:
- Big Ten has new 10-year deal with ESPN ABC – College Sports
- US ouster from World Cup yet another national sports disaster
- Study: Diversity lacking in newspaper sports staffs – ESPN
Big Ten has new 10-year deal with ESPN ABC – College Sports
ESPN – Jun 22, 2006
attachButton(document. getElementById(”espnstlink”)); ESPN. com news servicesESPN and ABC Sports will continue to broadcast Big Ten football men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball games for 10 years starting in 2007 — and the conference will create its own cable channel to show even more games nationally. The agreement was announced Wednesday by the Big Ten office. “This agreement among the most expansive ever reinforces our position as the No. 1 college sports destination and servesthe ever-evolving appetites of fans by providing premier Big Tenaction through traditional outlets like ABC and ESPN and emergingentities such as Mobile ESPN and ESPN360″ George Bodenheimerpresident of ABC Sports and ESPN Inc. said in a statement.
US ouster from World Cup yet another national sports disaster
USA Today – Jun 22, 2006
Now that the Americans have been excommunicated from the World Cup let the recriminations begin. coach is now going to be treated as if he’s the ball and this is a penalty kick.
Study: Diversity lacking in newspaper sports staffs – ESPN
ESPN – Jun 22, 2006
attachButton(document. getElementById(”espnstlink”)); Associated PressLAS VEGAS — The staffs of newspaper sports sections aredominated — and usually headed — by white men according to a studythat shows women have yet to make big inroads in a traditionallymale field. The survey of 305 newspapers of varying circulation also showedsports sections lagging in employment of minorities with blacksholding 6. 2 percent of jobs among an overall minorityrepresentation of 12 percent. Bigger newspapers tend to hire more women and minorities thansmaller papers but study director Richard Lapchick said theoverall rate was dismal. “Normally we assign a grade in these reports and this is thefirst time we didn’t do that” said Lapchick director of theInstitute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University ofCentral Florida.
