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Pacquiao-Cotto Match Drew 1.25 Million Pay-Per-View Buys

Manny Pacquiao’s 12th-round technical knockout of Miguel Cotto in their welterweight title fight Saturday night generated 1.25 million pay-per-view buys, with gross revenue of $70 million, HBO said Friday. Of the total, 650,000 came from cable ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Manny Pacquiao,  Miguel Cotto,  HBO,  Juan Manuel Marquez,  Oscar de la Hoya

Quiet Subdivision Is Home to a Booming N.F.L. Blog

Mike Florio refuses to fly, so he drove his VW bus 15 hours last January to his first Super Bowl. Discuss the Giants, Jets, fantasy and everything else N.F.L on the Timess pro football blog. He never enters locker rooms, so he has met few N.F.L. ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants,  New York Jets,  United Football League,  ComScore Inc,  Bob Costas

'Sunday Night' Gives NBC No. 1 Prime-Time Program

NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” has achieved what ABC’s “Monday Night Football” never did, even in the 1970s: it is the No. 1 program in prime time. For now. It will almost certainly lose the race after the season ends and Fox’s “American Idol” returns ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ESPN,  American Idol,  New York Giants,  New York Times Company,  New York Jets

TV Sports: ESPN Rewards Jon Gruden Despite Flaws

On Monday afternoon, ESPN extended Jon Gruden’s contract as an analyst on “Monday Night Football,” affirming the deep affection the empire feels for the former coach midway through his first season in television. Discuss the Giants, Jets, fantasy and ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ESPN,  Cleveland Browns,  New York Jets,  Jon Gruden,  New York Giants

TV Sports: A Possible Glimpse Of Ebersol’s Future

Dick Ebersol has thrived under General Electric for 20 years as the head of NBC Sports. He has spent billions of G.E.’s dollars on the rights to show eight Olympic Games, from Atlanta to London. Keep up with the latest news as the 2010 Winter Games ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Comcast,  Golf Channel,  United States Olympic Committee,  ESPN,  General Electric

Sports Business: Nets Reaching Out to Fans, Wherever They Are

Nets guard Devin Harris sat at a table between the bread section and the produce aisle at a Pathmark here signing autographs and quietly representing a team that plays in New Jersey but wants to escape to Brooklyn. Harris, the team’s starting point ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New Jersey Nets,  Devin Harris,  Western Union,  George Karl,  Ray Allen

Sports Business: In So Many Words, the N.B.A. Redefined by Bill Simmons

It is nearly impossible to write about Bill Simmons’s new work, “The Book of Basketball,” without noting its heft: 697 pages, longer than his hero Bill Russell’s three memoirs (648 pages), weightier than Wilt Chamberlain’s two autobiographies (614 ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Simmons,  ESPN,  Wilt Chamberlain,  Hubie Brown,  Omniture, Inc.

Fox Affiliate Leads the Yankees' Parade

Follow the Yankees as they prepare to play in a new Yankee Stadium and discuss the team with fellow fans here. From 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 358,500 viewers watched the Yankees' victory parade on Channel 5, followed by WCBS-TV/Channel 2 (264,800), WABC- ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Steve Bartman,  Alex Rodriguez,  Mariano Rivera,  Philadelphia Phillies

Lombardi’s Life May Soon Be on a Broadway Stage

The life of Vince Lombardi one of the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham, the coaching saint, the mahatma of Green Bay is the subject of a new play, and its producers plan to bring it to Broadway late next year. Vince Lombardi did just about all that ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vince Lombardi,  New York Giants,  New York Jets,  Eric Simonson,  New York University

TV Sports: Yankees’ 27th Title Proves a Big Draw

In the 13 years since the Yankees started to play regularly in the World Series again, their viewership has never exceeded the 25.2 million average in 1996, when they beat the Atlanta Braves. Pick your reasons: the novelty of the Yankees playing in the ...

From RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Philadelphia Phillies,  Atlanta Braves,  George Steinbrenner,  New York Mets

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