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CBS Sports
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CBS SPORTS WRAPS UP 2012 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON WITH “HYUNDAI SUN BOWL”
USC Takes on Georgia Tech on Monday, Dec. 31 CBS Sports’ 2012 coverage of college football concludes on New Year’s Eve with the Hyundai Sun Bowl on Monday, Dec. 31 (2:00-6:00 PM, ET). USC faces Georgia Tech in the 79th annual Sun Bowl, live on the CBS Television Network. This marks the 45th consecutive year CBS Sports broadcasts the match-up from El Paso, Texas. CBS Sports’ lead college football announce team of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson call the action from Sun Bowl Stadium. Tracy Wolfson serves as sideline reporter. Craig Silver, CBS Sports’ coordinating producer o...
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“THE NFL ON CBS’s” GREG GUMBEL SITS DOWN WITH INDIANAPOLIS COLTS HEAD COACH CHUCK PAGANO IN PREVIEW OF HIS RETURN TO SIDELINES AGAINST HOUSTON AFTER FIGHTHING LEUKEMIA FOR WEEK 17 OF “THE NFL TODAY” ON SUNDAY, DEC. 30
THE NFL ON CBS, home of Super Bowl XLVII and broadcasting its 53rd year of the NFL, continues its 2012 NFL season on Sunday, Dec. 30 (1:00-7:00 PM, ET) beginning with THE NFL TODAY (12:00 Noon-1:00 PM, ET). THE NFL ON CBS’s Greg Gumbel previews the Houston Texans-Indianapolis Colts game with one of the most inspirational stories of the 2012 NFL season, an interview with Colts Head Coach Chuck Pagano as he returns to the sidelines for the first time since Week 3 after fighting leukemia. When Pagano took the head coaching job of the Colts in January of this year, lit...
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CBS SPORTS FEATURES IN-STATE BATTLE AS #3-RANKED LOUISVILLE TAKES ON #23-RANKED KENTUCKY ON SATURDAY, DEC. 29
CBS Sports Tips-Off 75 Years of NCAA March Madness Celebration with BEHIND THE MIC and A COACH’S PERSPECTIVE, on Dec. 29 CBS Sports’ college basketball coverage continues with a national broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 29 (4:00 PM, ET) with *#3-ranked Louisville taking on *#23-ranked Kentucky. Tim Brando, Clark Kellogg and Greg Anthony call the action live from KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. Steve Scheer produces and Mark Grant directs. AT THE HALF, CBS Sports’ halftime studio show features analysts Doug Gottlieb and Sports Illustrated’s Seth Davis. Vin DeVito produces a...
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THE NFL ON CBS: WEEK 17 (SUNDAY, DEC. 30) - AUDIBLES WITH “NFL ON CBS” LEAD ANALYST PHIL SIMMS
The CBS Television Network, home of Super Bowl XLVII, continues its 53rd year broadcasting the NFL with coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Dec. 30 (1:00-7:00 PM, ET) beginning with THE NFL TODAY, the Network’s one-hour studio show (12:00 NOON-1:00 PM, ET), live from THE NFL TODAY studio in New York City. THE NFL ON CBS lead announce team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms call the action live from the Miami Dolphins-New England Patriots game from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA. Lance Barrow is the coordinating producer and lead game producer and Mike Arnold is ...
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NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL COWHER AND BOOMER ESIASON FOR WEEK 16 ON DECEMBER 23
► QUICK HITS (On N.Y. Jets) BILL COWHER: They have no real plan. We've never seen a plan from the very beginning with Tim Tebow. We keep waiting for it. There is no foresight to see what happens if Mark Sanchez doesn't work out. Right now what you have is a situation [where] you bench Mark Sanchez, then you leap frog to Greg McElroy. What happens to the backup quarterback? We have not seen Tim Tebow all year. What is taking place in New York defines dysfunctional. ► INSIDE INFORMATION WITH JASON LA CANFORA (On New York Jets quarterback situation)Click to view: ht...
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THIS JUST IN… from CBS Sports Network
Dana Jacobson makes her CBS Sports Network debut on Wednesday, Dec. 26 as guest host of the weekday show ROME (6:00 PM, ET). Jacobson hosts ROME Dec. 26 through Friday, Dec. 28, and will be joined by contributors Jeremy Fowler of CBSSports.com and Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated. Jacobson recently joined CBS as a radio host on the newly created CBS Sports Radio and a contributor to CBS Sports Network’s studio programming. For more information, go to www.cbssportsnetwork.com. * * * * * Follow us on Twitter: @CBSSportsGang
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College Basketball
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CBS SPORTS NETWORK TIPS OFF COLLEGE BASKETBALL STUDIO PROGRAMMING
Network Debuts “Wally’s World” Featuring Wally Szczerbiak Beginning this week, CBS Sports Network returns its primetime college basketball studio shows COURTSIDE WITH SETH DAVIS and INSIDE COLLEGE BASKETBALL and debuts WALLY’S WORLD, a new 30-minute show hosted by Wally Szczerbiak. Debuting Wednesday, Dec. 19 (6:30 PM, ET), WALLY’S WORLD covers the entire basketball landscape. Szczerbiak provides his take on the news, storylines, trends and buzz around the basketball world. Contributors to the show include a variety of CBS Sports and CBSSports.com basketball analysts. Szczerb...
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NFL ON CBS
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“THE NFL ON CBS” EARNS HIGHEST-RATED REGULAR-SEASON GAME SINCE LAST YEAR’S TOM BRADY-LED NEW ENGLAND vs. TIM TEBOW-LED DENVER
YESTERDAY’S GAME HIGHLIGHTED BY PITTSBURGH-DALLAS OVERTIME THRILLER IS HIGHEST-RATED OF WEEKEND CBS Sports’ coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Dec. 16, highlighted by the Pittsburgh-Dallas overtime thriller (and Kansas City-Oakland), earned the weekend’s highest overnight household rating/share of any network in the metered markets with a 17.2/30, compared to last year’s 19.5/36 (New England-Denver), which was the second-highest-rated regular-season game since the Network re-acquired the NFL in 1998. The game rating peaked at 20.8/38 from 7:30-8:00 PM, ET. ...