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Row 44 Bringing Live MLB Games To Southwest

Marcus Vanderberg — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:06:59 +0000

Southwest Airlines customers will soon be able to watch their favorite baseball team 30,000 feet in the air.

Row 44 Inc., Southwest’s in-flight broadband Internet provider, signed a deal with Major League Baseball that will allow the airline giant to stream audio and video broadcasts to passengers’ Wi-Fi enabled devices.

“Major League Baseball is such a part of the fabric of America — and has always been more than a professional sports organization,” said Howard Lefkowitz, Row 44′s chief commercial officer. “It is an honor that they’ve chosen to undertake this innovation with Row 44 — becoming the first sports league to offer in-flight live streaming video of its games. This partnership is the first in a series that underscore Row 44′s commitment to creating a unique broadband entertainment experience for our airline partners and their customers.”

Southwest is slated to have their entire fleet wired by 2013.

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The Score Satellite Radio Is Going Off The Air

Marcus Vanderberg — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:06:05 +0000

Sad news from north of the border as The Score Satellite Radio is going off the air on Sept. 1.

According to Toronto Sports Media, Sirius decided to pull the plug on the station due to the recent merger with XM Radio Canada.

The Score was the home of the wildly popular The Morning Jones – we will have Bomani Jones‘ reaction about this breaking news Tuesday evening.

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Capitol One, Castrol Edge Return As Presenting Sponsors Of ESPY's

Marcus Vanderberg — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:39:33 +0000

Sponsors Capital One and Castrol Edge will once again present the ESPY Awards from the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

Along with co-presenting the show, both companies will serve as co-presents of the nomination show, ESPY voting, and an individual award – the Capital One Cup, recognizing excellence in collegiate athletics, and the Castrol EDGE “NFL Strongest Performance” award.

EA Sports, Gatorade, GMC, Hennessy, MGD64 and SuperCuts return as associate sponsors and newcomers include Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, K-Swiss, HP and 20th Century Fox.

The ESPY’s “Vault of Secrets” pre-party will once again be sponsored by Hennessy and MGD64 returns as presenting sponsor of the official ESPY’s Post Party.

The 2011 ESPY’s airs live July 13 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN.

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ESPN Offering Extended Coverage Of 2011 WSOP Main Event

Marcus Vanderberg — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:36:45 +0000

ESPN is going “all-in” for the 2011 World Series of Poker.

From July 14-19, the network will offer daily coverage of the WSOP main event, including ‘live’ unedited hole cards on a 30-minute delay and more than 34 additional hours of coverage in high definition on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3.com from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Every hand will be shown unedited and hole cards will be available post-flop. Coverage will shift between two feature tables approximately every 30 minutes. All “all-in” and “call” situations will be shown at both tables. continued…

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Chris Rock On The Sad State Of The NY Mets

Marcus Vanderberg — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:43:31 +0000

Comedian Chris Rock was on The Late Show with David Letterman to discuss the start of the baseball season and the second base situation for the New York Mets.

My apologies to SportsNewser co-editor Alex Weprin and other poor (pun intended) Mets fans for what could be another long season.

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