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The network will air the Cubs-Rangers season opener exclusively, with the “Sunday Night Baseball” crew of Karl Ravech, analysts David Cone and Eduardo Perez and reporter Buster Olney on the call.
When a popular broadcaster is replaced, it’s usually because he retired or died. On Thursday, that popular broadcaster will be working in the same ballpark as his replacement.
Chairman George McCaskey has long opposed the Bears being on the show. This year, the NFL can compel the team to participate.
David van Dyck was one of the most respected sportswriters in Chicago. He had a gift of getting to know behind-the-scenes people who tipped him to scoops and gave his reporting depth. He later worked for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“This was something that people around here used to dream about doing one time,” said Eanet, the radio voice for Northwestern basketball. “And now we’re doing it on a regular basis.” The Wildcats face Florida Atlantic on Friday (11:15 a.m., CBS 2, 720-AM).
The deal will give the network exclusive rights to the expanded postseason through the 2031 season, with the national championship game moving to ABC starting in 2026.
What this means for the writers and others who produce Sports Illustrated remains to be seen.
King fell for a fake Adrian Wojnarowski account on the site formerly known as Twitter during the Wizards-Bulls game Saturday night. The mistake was King’s alone, and he apologized to the crew afterward. NBCSCH also addressed the matter.
He’ll be BTN’s analyst alongside Kevin Kugler for the first two quarterfinal games of the Big Ten Tournament on Friday, including Northwestern’s game against Wisconsin.
The radio analyst feels most of all for the players, who are staring at an unthinkable 0-20 record in the Big East.
Clark’s rookie season could result in record viewership, putting the league in its best position ever to negotiate a new rights deal. Its current one expires after the 2025 season.
The schedule of games, which will also include matchups from the Big 12 and Mountain West conferences, likely won’t be announced until late May or early June.
Marquee will use the game as a promotional tool, and Weigel will make it known that it’s available to air local teams’ games.
Mortensen announced in 2016 that he he had been diagnosed with throat cancer.
“I had a moment of frustration with the audio issue we were having,” Cronin told the Sun-Times on Saturday, “and I said something I shouldn’t have said, not realizing I had a live mic.”
Missing from this newfangled bundle are CBS and NBC, which have pretty good menus of sports programming. None of the league networks are included, either.
Kamka is known for unearthing nuggets of information. The rest of NBC Sports Chicago’s Sox production crew is back, led by producer Chris Withers.
Schriffen will make his debut Friday, when he’ll call the Sox’ spring-training opener against the Cubs in Mesa, Arizona, on NBC Sports Chicago.
Former skippers Joe Maddon and Terry Francona rewatched the game with open mics at the network’s studio. Neither had watched it since that night in Cleveland. Bob Costas and Tom Verducci co-host the show.
That shattered last year’s mark of 115.1 million for Kansas City’s last-play victory over Philadelphia and is a 7% increase.