Archive For The “TV” Category
Not going to Murray Goodman today? Need to find out how to catch the game online, by a video stream or online radio?
Never fear. LFN’s here.
Not going to Worcester to watch Lehigh take on Holy Cross? Need to find out how to catch the game online, by a video stream or online radio?
Never fear. LFN’s here.
Not going to DC to watch Lehigh take on Georgetown? Need to find out how to catch the game online, by a video stream or online radio?
Never fear. LFN’s here.
Not going to the #HateTheGate (or, alternatively, #SlamTheGate) game at Murray Goodman, and you need to show your #Project10K support in some other way, either by watching TV or watching the game online?t
Never fear. LFN’s here.
New Year’s Eve is supposed to be about all the good things about college football.
For FCS, it’s about the run-up to the FCS National Championship game in Frisco, Texas. This season – again – North Dakota State heads to the party once again, while the No. 1 team in the nation. Jacksonville State, tries to be the team that finally harpoons the Bison to break their consecutive national championship streak.
In the FBS, the bowl games that really matter – the plus-one playoff teams, the four teams that could win their bowl championship – are being played. Lots of people will tune in. Advertisers will see a very strong return on investment on their ad buys for the game. The administrators for Alabama, Michigan State, Clemson and Oklahoma will be entertained, and well paid.
Yet now, at the end of 2015, there are dark clouds on the horizon looming pretty much everywhere about the entire sport. Folks are worried about head injuries more than ever. The bowl system, with more exhibition games than ever, feels overstretched, and the games are competing with more and more sports entertainment and feeling diluted. Even the revenue model for sports on TV feels under threat as more and more people cut the coaxial cable and media conglomerates like ESPN actually shrink in viewership.
College football was, and still is, the greatest sport in the entire world. But many forces of change feel like they’re coming, and it’s making a lot of folks pessimistic about the future of the sport.
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If you’re not able to catch the Yale game in person – really? You can’t? – you can stream the game here from the Patriot League Digital Network. It’s a 12:30 start and will be the same broadcast that’s available over the air on SE2 in…
The CBS Sports Network and the Patriot League go way back.
The first major media agreement the Patriot League had was with the network, CBS’ stand-alone national network partner that used to be called CSTV.
For many years, CBS Sports Network carried as many as three Patriot League football games on the channel during the course of a season.
In 2015, however, that streak of nationally-televised Patriot League football games on the network seems like it will be coming to an end.
“Unless something major changes there will not be any through the Patriot League package this year,” the Patriot League office told me.
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It must be very hard for a millennial to understand the fuss around the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding figure skating scandal in the run-up to the 1994 Olympics.
If you’re of a certain age, though – whether you’re a figure skating fan or not, and I am decidedly no fan of figure skating – the Shakespearean story of Harding and Kerrigan still engages, and still grabs peoples’ attention, twenty years later.
Why, though? Why, twenty years later, in a sport I care little, does the story still grab me? Why did I spend time out of my life watching dueling NBC and ESPN documentaries on the subject, and Google multiple stories about Jeff Gilooly, idiot “bodyguards”, and the whole sordid affair?
I think it’s because the story, even twenty years later, is like opium.
The addictive story, even now, has everything. Everything. The woman that fought for everything, perhaps crossing over to the dark side to get her chance at Olypic Gold, vs. the woman who, despite her pleas to the contrary, had a well-financed team behind her, especially in the run-up to the Olympics.
A mysterious crime that still isn’t completely solved. Idiot criminals. Shakespearean tragedy. Icy rivalry. Flawed heroes. Heroic feats of athleticism. Recovery from tragedy – and a triumph against all odds. There’s even a twist of an ending to the story, mired in the weird politics of figure skating judges.
The real tragedy, though, is in the two women – still trapped in the narrative, twenty years later, perhaps never to fully emerge from it.
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It’s that time of the week where I share with you your weekly Lehigh fan viewing guide for Week 2 of the college football season. Why go to website after website when all the information you need is right here?
