Blowout football ratings for CBS: Tim Tebow attracts big jump in viewers for playoff game
Recently I was watching a clip on YouTube of CBS's coverage of Super Bowl X between the Steelers and Cowboys in 1976. With about four minutes left, announcer Pat Summerall informed viewers that broadcast partner Tom Brookshier was heading to the locker rooms for postgame interviews. My goodness, can you imagine? Sunday, NBC had more than a dozen on-air personalities for the Super Bowl ...
Film company has taken often brutal sport and turned it into a ballet during its 50-year history  Full coverage: Super Bowl XLVI
Deal starts in 2013-14, first season of NCHC, and calls for at least 18 games to be televised, including the conference tournament's semis and final.
After watching all the buttdowns, awkward graphics, and ads we'd already seen on YouTube, regular Super Bowl viewers may have noticed something strange about yesterday evening's postgame coverage: It was much shorter than normal. According to Sports Media Watch, there was only 15 minutes of postgame in the half-hour time slot set aside between 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. to debrief fans on the game. ...
Fans of the Philadelphia Union, known as "Sons of Ben," packed into the mayor's reception room today to watch the announcement from Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber.
Star on why he worked so hard to get film made, his life with Angelina Jolie and the kids, his relationship with Obama
The Super Bowl is set to break television ratings records on Sunday, capping a season in which the NFL established itself as the most reliable and formidable of TV juggernauts. Last month, its conference championship games were the most watched in 30 years, and it soars into Sunday's Super Bowl defying the ratings drag that plague much of TV.
For the second time in 10 days, No. 2 Notre Dame visits the state of New York as the Fighting Irish head to Syracuse on Tuesday for a 7 p.m. (ET) BIG EAST Conference matchup with the Orange at the Carrier Dome. Not only does it mark a return trip to the Empire State for Notre Dame, but it also is the third road game in the last four outings for the Fighting Irish.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The biggest of stars is off to a slow start this season.
We're lucky, really. Since the Super Bowl is a one-shot deal, we only have to deal with any problems—be it bad announcers, poor officiating or a lopsided match-up—for a game. Unlike any other sport, where if any of the preceding issues crop up, you're stuck for at least four games. The Super Bowl is, and always has been, possessed of a singular intensity not found in any other sport. Even the ...
San Jose State grad to have his number retired at halftime of Saturday's game
Broncos QB tells "NFL Today" his parents taught him ability at a sport doesn't make one more special than others
Total viewership of NBC's Super Bowl coverage was an average 111.3 million, with the Giants' close win against the Patriots helping retain viewers. Another ratings record, another halftime controversy. What else could it have been but the Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl is advertising's biggest stage and companies spent an average of $3.5 million for 30-second commercials for the right to duke it out during Sunday's game.
For the second time in four days, No. 2 Notre Dame visits the Tri-State area, as the Fighting Irish get set to tangle with No. 13/12 Rutgers in a BIG EAST Conference contest at 7 p.m. (ET) Tuesday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center in Piscataway, N.J. The game will be televised live to a national cable audience by CBS Sports Network.
LONDON (Reuters) - The St. Louis Rams will play one regular-season home game in London for the next three years starting with a clash against the New England Patriots at Wembley Stadium in October, the NFL said on Friday.
In the question of who will win the Super Bowl, there is a growing consensus: the Giants over the Patriots. Some solid analysis backs this up, but mostly we're relying on no good reasons.
The St. Louis Rams will play one regular-season home game in London for the next three years starting with a clash against the New England Patriots at Wembley Stadium in October, the NFL said on Friday.
"That’s the America that all of us love and want to see even if it has been brought about by what some call socialism."
