It blows me away how major companies can pay big money and get designs like this that anyone with photoshop could make. However, they did follow Glendale's lead and use the scarlet and gray scheme.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2006-05-12-weekend_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2006-05-12-weekend_x.htm
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Fox will inherit those games from ABC, which will continue to show the Rose Bowl as its one remaining BCS game.
As Fox puts together its game plan, Fox Sports President Ed Goren says it isn't "necessarily realistic" to think Fox, which doesn't have regular-season college football packages, will be able to borrow announcers from networks that do. "Although it's possible, we'll be able to cherry-pick an announcer or two."
Goren, after meeting with various college officials, also says it's "a long shot" that Fox will be able to microphone coaches or get unusual access.
He says he's tried to make the case that Fox is trying to be benevolent rather than intrusive by citing CBS' NCAA basketball tournament coverage in which CBS was allowed into George Mason's locker room after the long shot had been eliminated.
Viewers saw coach Jim Larranaga tell his players he was proud of them.
"That was a wonderfully warm moment that says everything you want to know about college sports," Goren says.
Kuselias finds his passion
Erik Kuselias constitutes a bigger oxymoron than "jumbo shrimp." He's a Mensa member and a sports talk radio host.
He says his mother has noted the incongruity, telling him, "You have more degrees than a thermometer, and you're doing that?"
But Kuselias, who hosts ESPN Radio's daily afternoon SportsBash show on 217 stations, is past being sensitive. "I've been a lawyer and elected politician," he says. "I'm less worried about the image of sports talk radio."
And Kuselias, subbing Friday for Mike Greenberg on the Mike and Mike in the Morning radio show, which is also simulcast on ESPN2, is happy. "You have to find your passion," says Kuselias, who also pops up on ESPN TV shows and hosts ESPN Radio's Sunday afternoon NFL coverage during the football season. "And you can see the passion at ESPN. At ESPN Zone (restaurants) they have TVs over the urinals! They're showing you the passion."
Yikes. Still, Kuselias otherwise seems rational. After playing baseball at Brown University, he says he scored in the 99th percentile on his law school aptitude test, thus getting a free pass into Mensa without having to take an IQ test. The payoff: He's been to one Mensa gathering — a Scrabble night.
He became a litigator and, at 26, was elected to the town council in his native Hamden, Conn. He was recruited by Connecticut's Republican governor — "I was awestruck. I would have walked over hot coals for him" — to run for the state senate in 1996. Kuselias lost. (Maybe it was just as well: That governor, John Rowland, pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 2004 and went to a federal prison.)
After negotiating a contract for a client at a New Haven radio station, the station manager asked if he knew anybody who could do sports radio. His brother Christopher, who owns a job training firm, suggested they could argue sports on-air — "We've had those arguments since I was 8," Erik says — and they got a one-hour weekly show in 2001.
Somebody at ESPN, based in Connecticut, heard them and saw arguing brothers was a novelty with potential. They got a one-week trial in 2002 and a weekday show in 2003. Erik went solo in 2004. Christopher bowed out because for him, Erik says, "it had been about whether we could get there."
Kuselias, 37, is also getting a Ph.D. from Columbia Journalism School, with a dissertation on baseball economics — "competitive imbalance has a much bigger chance of ruining baseball than steroids" — even as he wrestles on-air with issues such as whether prospective fathers "can openly root for having a boy." His pregnant wife, Kristen, called his show Wednesday to announce she's expecting a boy. Says Erik: "I cheered loudly."
His legal work consists of things like helping relatives with traffic tickets. He focuses on what his father, Michael, diagnosed with inoperable cancer and given six months to live in 1990 but alive today, told him. "He said, 'Don't go to a job you don't like.' "
Viewers' sports feats to air
Starting Sunday morning, ESPN will begin regularly airing viewers' home videos.
So, can we all look forward to seeing out-of-focus footage of chipmunks on tiny water skis? Or golfers taking swings and their clubs accidentally flying out of their hands and hilariously smacking into bystanders' private parts?
That's not the idea, ESPN senior vice president Mark Gross says. "We're not looking for staged, silly or dangerous stuff. And no fake stuff where you've tried it over and over to get something to work. We're not going to put anything on that will embarrass the network."
Killjoy. Instead, he says, ESPN wants home videos of "things that happened in sports."
Initially, he says, the videos will air on a weekly basis, "but the hope really is that we branch out into a weekly top 10 of home videos or a half-hour home video show." All videos received will go on ESPN.com, with online voting leading to one getting an Espy in ESPN's made-for-TV award show in July.
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