Tag: NCAA Tournament

Busy week: Media focuses on NFL and college playoffs, coaching choices and March Madness plans

By  01/09/2021 0

With the NFL playoffs starting today, the media had lots to say this week. […]

Halby’s Morsels: NCAA issues RFP for network radio rights starting with March’s tourney; Other nuggets

By  12/22/2020 1

The NCAA Tournament Here’s the latest on the battle for the network radio rights to […]

Halby’s Morsels: End of the World; NCAA Tourney; Neil Funk; A busy fall; Entercom silences update voices

By  03/20/2020 1

Neil Funk It’s too bad that retiring Chicago Bulls’ television announcer Neil Funk, 73, won’t […]

Halby’s Morsels: Calling games in empty arenas? It’s happened; In ’81, Reagan was shot day of finals

By  03/13/2020 2

Yesterday, the NCAA followed what the NBA, MLB and NHL did earlier. It cancelled both […]

Conference tournaments play on; TV networks busy against an alarming and muted backdrop

By  03/11/2020 1

UPDATED: So a partial score become a final  score–St. John’s-Creighton, a Big East Tourney game […]

Tourney in empty buildings? CBS’ McManus and Turner’s Zucker are in constant contact with NCAA

By  03/10/2020 0

Charles Barkley was asked whether the public was overreacting to the coronavirus. He essentially said […]

Halby’s Morsels: Coronavirus scraps CBS/TNT’s tourney production meeting; Remembering Ed Ingles

By  03/09/2020 1

The annual CBS/Turner production meeting that’s held in New York prior to the NCAA […]

For voices and fans: An unequaled month of record setting and emotionally driven sports

By  05/08/2019 0

It’s been an amazing stretch, one that might take forever to equal. In what now […]

CBS missed the crowning moment, dropping Auburn celebration 15 minutes before Duke-Mich State tip

By  04/01/2019 1

Isn’t much of the beauty of March Madness its drama? Isn’t it the emotional […]

Sunday’s March Madness, CBS and Turner schedules; ranking of today’s play-by-play voices and analysts

By  03/24/2019 0

Announcer rankings for today’s NCAA Tournament broadcasts (Sunday, March 24, 2019) First this from […]

CBS and Turner release their March Madness announcer assignments for the first week of games

By  03/18/2019 0

CBS and Turner announced their line-up of game announcers for the first week of the […]

March Madness and bracketology: The media’s cottage industry; Lunardi, Katz, Schwab, Palm +

By  03/11/2019 0

March Madness has always been beyond exciting, easily rivaling late December as the most […]