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NBC wants the NBA back
Cue up John Tesh’s “Roundball Rock” – “The NBA on NBC” may possibly be returning, if NBC Athletics gets its way. Comcast‘s NBCUniversal is planning to make a bid to win back Countrywide Basketball Affiliation broadcast rights a lot more than 20 many years following the corporation misplaced them to Disney and Turner Sporting activities, in accordance to people today acquainted with the subject. NBCUniversal executives have knowledgeable the NBA of their potential desire, claimed the people, who asked not to be named due to the fact the discussions are personal. NBC Athletics needs a package that would incorporate playoff video games to air on NBC’s broadcast network, two of…
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NBC should finally call time on Tony Dungy’s amiable right-wing zealotry | NFL
No sports league does more than the National Football League to encourage the stereotype of the glass-chewing, expletive-spewing coach. Tony Dungy, though, was more Kenneth Parcell than Bill Parcells – a soft-spoken, clean-cut ex-defensive back whose winning pedigree and strategic ingenuity rightly earned him pride of place among the titans of his profession. That Dungy is also a Black pioneer makes him especially useful to commissioner Roger Goodell’s efforts to “protect the [NFL] shield” from the seasonal assaults on its undying legacy of racial and gender inequality. Since transitioning to a lofty post-retirement role as co-host of NBC’s top-rated NFL telecasts, it’s been on the 67-year-old to serve up even-toned…