European Championships and Missouri State Cup

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I’m going to be in Springfield for the State Cup in June. I’m working with Bill at Farmers Gastropub to set up Watch Parties for the European Championships that will begin on check-in Friday. Two games a day will be shown on the ESPN stations daily at 11:00 am And 1:45 pm. If you’re playing [...]

Survival Sunday – What Will You Be Watching?

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ESPN2 will have the English Premier League’s final day big game: Manchester City vs QPR, which has both title and relegation implications. Man City will clinch its first top-level league title in 44 years with a win, while QPR needs at least one point (or a Bolton Wanderers loss or tie at Stoke City) to [...]

USA vs Ghana Today – Watch For Us on ESPN!

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Just got done trading emails with Paul Molin, an ESPN producer. They now have the original iPhone video I shot of our celebration at Farmer’s Gastropub as Landon Donovan scored the game-winner against Algeria. The plan is to include it as part of the pre-game show today. We will continue our support of the USA, [...]

ESPN Announces World Cup 2010 Schedule, All In HD

CHICAGO (Jan. 27, 2009) – The U.S. Men’s National Team’s highly anticipated match against England in their opening game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be broadcast live on ABC HD on Saturday, June 12 at 2 p.m. ET from the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Rustenburg, kicking off coverage of the USA’s campaign [...]

ESPN Will Launch 3D with World Cup Match

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“ESPN is going 3D,” Edward C. Baig writes, adding that the network “will launch ESPN 3D on June 11 with a World Cup soccer match, creating what it says will be the first all three-dimensional television network to the home. ESPN 3D expects to showcase at least 85 live sporting events during the first year. [...]

ESPN Adds Two Saturday EPL Games To Its Weekly US Broadcast Schedule

According to EPLtalk website ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 7:45am ET Saturday game and the 3pm ET Monday game. Those two weekly time slots were previously held by [...]

US MNT Advances To First Ever Men’s Final In A FIFA Competition

Wow, the hyperbole overflows… In one of the greatest matches in U.S. Soccer history, the U.S. Men’s National Team got goals by Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey to stun No. 1-ranked Spain 2-0 and advance to the finals of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa. The U.S. will face Brazil/ South Africa in [...]

English Premier League, La Liga and ESPN

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Some of you may have seen a few items related to the English Premier League broadcast rights. Sentanta has gone into receivership and their UK broadcast rights have been pulled. ESPN has won the rights to broadcast 46 live Premier League matches in the United Kingdom for the 2009-10 season, and has also been awarded [...]