Tag: NCAA Tournament
Busy week: Media focuses on NFL and college playoffs, coaching choices and March Madness plans
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
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
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
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
UPDATED: So a partial score become a final score–St. John’s-Creighton, a Big East Tourney game […]
Halby’s Morsels: Coronavirus scraps CBS/TNT’s tourney production meeting; Remembering Ed Ingles
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
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
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
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
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 +
March Madness has always been beyond exciting, easily rivaling late December as the most […]