“Saturday Night Football” on ABC kicks off its 2019 season with a showdown between the Oregon Ducks and the Auburn Tigers on Aug. 31, two of the sport’s premier teams. Oregon, if healthy, can be a Rose Bowl contender this season. Auburn will have to contend with their usually-competitive SEC rivals in the coming weeks […]
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NBA TV’s Summer League coverage – the first opportunity to see many of the NBA’s top rookies in action – will feature 50 live game telecasts in 13 days beginning Monday, July 1. The network’s schedule – including live game telecasts from all three Summer League locations – will feature the expected first look at […]
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ESPN will present every matchup of the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, continuing Friday, June 7 thru Monday, June 10, with the Super Regionals from eight sites across the country, televised on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU. The winners of each Regional (16, in all) advanced to the Super Regionals for a single, best-of-three series […]
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The networks of ESPN will provide complete coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship beginning with regional action (March 29-31) and concluding with the Frozen Four in Buffalo, N.Y. (April 11 & 13). The Championship field was announced exclusively on ESPNU on Sunday, March 24. St. Cloud State is the No. 1 […]
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Not every team gets invited to the “Big Dance.” For the teams that almost made it to the Final 68 on Selection Sunday, there is the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). A total of 32 teams comprise the NIT. The first four teams left out of the 2019 NCAA tournament field will be the top-seeded teams […]
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ESPN will continue its industry-leading college basketball slate with more than 180 matchups during Championship Week. Digital coverage began Monday, March 4, while television coverage as part of Champ Week tipped off on Friday, March 8, and continues through Sunday, March 17. ESPN networks will air 27 Division I conference tournaments across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, […]
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The Gonzaga Bulldogs remained at No. 1 after extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 20 games. Virginia stayed at No. 2 after winning both its games last week. North Carolina and Tennessee both moved up two spots, to Nos. 3 and 5. Duke fell one spot to No. 4. No. 15 Virginia Tech had […]
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The Gonzaga Bulldogs, without a loss since December (winning by a margin of victory of at least 12 points per game), took this week’s top spot in the Associated Top 25 poll (released Feb. 25). They last were at No. 1 back in late November. The Atlantic Coast Conference hoards three spots in the poll’s […]
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The Duke Blue Devils reclaimed the top spot in the Associated Top 25 poll (released Feb. 18), the third time this season they’ve reached No. 1. Tennessee, which had spent four weeks at No. 1, fell to fifth after their Feb. 17 loss at Kentucky. The LSU Tigers (21-4) made the week’s biggest jump, climbing […]