The News Review:
- Joe’s Sports & utdoor files for Chapter 11
- Windows Media Center launches sports channel
- Tomlinson among seven enshrined in Texas Sports Hall
- F1 team bosses launch roadmap to save their sport
- Sanders fires back at Funkhouser over plan to slash sports complex …
- Do you believe in miracles? Michaels to host lympics
Joe’s Sports & utdoor files for Chapter 11
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Windows Media Center launches sports channel
CNET News
(Credit: Microsoft)In its bid to broaden the appeal of Windows Media Center Microsoft is launching a new sports channel that will offer a range of sports coverage including replays of NCAA basketball tournament games. WMC has yet to go mainstream and is still primarily used by hardcore techies. Microsoft is out to change that by making the WMC easier to use as well as acquiring rights to. html” >premium video content. Microsoft has licensed the rights to sports content from Fox Sports CBSSports.
Tomlinson among seven enshrined in Texas Sports Hall
Houston Chronicle
html San Diego Chagers running back LaDainian Tomlinson and former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Lee Roy Jordan were among the seven inductees into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday night in Waco. The annual induction banquet at the Ferrell Center on the Baylor University campus had a burnt orange flavor because two former University of Texas stars and one legendary Longhorns coach also were enshrined. Running back Steve Worster a Bridge City native and safety Bill Bradley who grew up in Palestine were inducted with the late basketball coach Abe Lemons. ther members of the class were former Dallas Mavericks guard Rolando Blackman and soccer star Kyle Rote Jr. Tomlinson who grew up in Waco and played at TCU was inducted a few miles from where he starred at University High School.
F1 team bosses launch roadmap to save their sport
The Associated Press
The Formula ne Teams Association which represents the 10 current teams in the sport announced its blueprint for the future Thursday at a news conference in Geneva. The group believes team budgets can be halved by next year. It wants to provide affordable engines ban in-season testing and limit technological updates. FTA also proposes giving broadcasters use of radio conversations between drivers and mechanics.
Sanders fires back at Funkhouser over plan to slash sports complex …
Kansas City Star
If the city money goes away it’s possible (even likely) that the Chiefs and Royals would claim the local governments have broken their agreement to come up with enough money to maintain the stadiums. And that would open up the 25-year agreements with the Chiefs and Royals to new negotiations. But based on my conversations over the years with Missouri officials here’s another problem that could arise for Funkhouser’s idea:The state — which pumps several million into the sports complex maintenance fund — also spends a few million a year on Bartle Hall. The state could simply kill the Bartle Hall funding and switch it over to the sports complex to make sure the high-profile sports teams stay in KC and don’t get to negotiate new leases that might be more onerous on local taxpayers. That would open up a $2 million hole in Bartle Hall funding for the city to suddenly try to replace. UPDATE: And another scenario — more positive for Funkhouser — is that the state of Missouri ought to be sending more money to KC than it does now.
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Do you believe in miracles? Michaels to host lympics
Newsday
Click below for the release. Emmy Award winner Al Michaels one of the most renowned broadcasters of all-time and whose legendary “Do you believe in miracles? YES!” call at the Lake Placid lympics 30 years ago stands as the most famous call in sports television history will serve as host of NBC’s live weekend and weekday daytime coverage of the Vancouver Winter lympics. The announcement was made today by Dick Ebersol Chairman NBC Universal Sports and lympics. This will be Michaels’ first lympic broadcast assignment in 22 years when he called hockey games at the 1988 Calgary Winter lympics. Michaels will host more than 50 hours of live weekend and weekday daytime coverage from Vancouver a significant increase in hours from NBC’s daytime shows from Torino in 2006. “To say I am thrilled to have Al host our weekend and weekday daytime coverage is an understatement” said Ebersol.
