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ESPN The Magazine’s “Recruiting” Issue on Newsstands Friday

January 27, 2012 · 0 comments

Recruiting: It’s not just for college coaches anymore. Wooing your way to a better roster is practically a sport of its own. ESPN The Magazine’s “Recruiting” issue on newsstands Friday, January 27, explores the various shapes the recruiting process takes featuring the nation’s No. 1 high school football prospect, Mario Edwards, who wouldn’t mind if [...]

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Live on-site coverage from NHL Network of all the festivities surrounding the 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend in Ottawa begins on Thursday, Jan. 26, delivering 16.5 hours of live coverage. The NHL Network team in Ottawa includes NHL Tonight hosts Kathryn Tappen and Brian Duff, analysts Barry Melrose, Kevin Weekes, Mike Johnson and EJ Hradek and [...]

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NBC Sports Network will air an all-encompassing 10 hours of coverage of the 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend, beginning with the NHL Fantasy Draft Pre-Show on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by the NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft at 8 p.m. ET. The network will then air the 2012 NHL All-Star Skills Competition on Saturday at [...]

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NHL Hour with Commissioner Gary Bettman will now telecast live on NHL Network and stream with video on NHL.com. The show will continue to air on Sirius XM Radio’s NHL Home Ice channel (channel 92 on XM and channel 207 on Sirius Premier). Broadcasting live on Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET, NHL [...]

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The National Hockey League (NHL) and NHL Original Productions announced Detroit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom as the next NHL player to be profiled in the all-access series NHL 36. The Red Wings icon, who has spent his entire career with the Detroit organization, is revered by teammates and management for his consistency, his preparation [...]

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The NHL Winter Classic continues to demonstrate its success as it has now produced five of the six most-watched NHL regular-season games in the past 37 years. Yesterday’s 2012 NHL Winter Classic between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers from Citizen’s Bank Park averaged 3.74 million viewers, according to fast national data provided by [...]

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2012 NHL Winter Classic Alumni Game featuring former Philadelphia Flyers against former New York Rangers in a New Year’s Eve showdown on Dec. 31, which was scheduled to air at 1 p.m. ET, will now air live at 3 p.m. ET on VERSUS. The delayed start time decision by the NHL was based on tomorrow’s [...]

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NBC Sports Network debut a 90-minute documentary ‘Cold War on Ice: Summit Series ’72′ on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 at 4:30 PM the same day the channel is re-branded from VERSUS. Cold War on Ice, produced by 51-time Emmy Award-winner Ross Greenburg, chronicles the historic 27-day Summit Series in September of 1972 between a team [...]

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Versus will become NBC Sports Network on Tuesday, January 2. NBC Sports Group as it broadcasts the 2012 NHL Winter Classic at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and launches the NBC Sports Network, currently VERSUS, immediately following the game at 4 p.m. ET with a special NHL Live post-game show hosted by Bob Costas from [...]

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Following are the highlights of an NBC Sports Group media conference call conducted last week regarding the NHL Winter Classic and the rebranding of Versus into NBC Sports Network. Bob Costas – NBC Sports Winter Classic host Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick – NBC Sports NHL lead play-by-play commentator Sam Flood – Executive Producer, NBC Sports & [...]

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