The College Football Committee concluded meetings this week as the 2015 season is less than a month away. The committee was very pleased with last season and hopes for a successful 2015 campaign. The committee, among other things, reviewed and discussed the time schedule for the weekly rankings with the first rankings coming Tuesday, November 3 on ESPN. The final rankings will air on December 6. The committee also discuss its recusal policy which will remain the same as...
When Michael “Dutch” Jackson recorded and produced the hip hop song “I am the Greatest,” ESPN, AND1, Amazon and Hastings Entertainment (“Defendants”), decided to brand the song to market, promote, and sell basketball shoes, sports apparel, DVDs, television programs and websites. However, according to Dutch Jackson, Defendants never got permission to use the song for marketing purposes. Jackson’s 31 page complaint was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging Defendants unauthorized use...
Erin Andrews, everyone’s favorite sideline personality, has just signed on with the popular College GameDay crew. ESPN/ABC was forced into giving Andrews a new contract after her stint with “Dancing with the Stars” made her a household name. Several media outlets expressed interest in signing Andrews, but ESPN/ABC answered the call. After several negotiations, ESPN/ABC re-signed the Lewiston, Maine native to continue what she does best–reporting on college football. As part of her new contract she garnered more...
The Granddaddy of Them All is desperately seeking a new sugar mama. Citi, the embattled banking giant, decided it’s time to sever its ties as the presenting sponsor of the Rose Bowl. The landscape of this relationship was doomed when ESPN took control over all sales of marketing and advertising of the New Year’s Day event. Citi had enough of ESPN’s total broadcasting rights and decided to throw in the towel. Meanwhile, the Rose Bowl is going back to the well...
FedEx announced today that it was ending it’s twenty-one year long sponsorship of the Orange Bowl. FedEx executives decided that it was not in the company’s best financial interest to continue sponsoring the bowl game. The change of heart from FedEx stems from the result of ESPN taking over broadcasting rights of BCS games from FOX Broadcasting Company beginning in 2011. ESPN purchased the BCS rights to sell sponsorship and advertising for the football games at the price of...
In 2011, Alabama will be making a trip to Happy Valley just in time to hear the new and improved audible assault at Beaver Stadium. After an in-depth study of acoustic engineering, a team of scientists discovered a way to optimize the noise level at Beaver Stadium all in the name of discomfort for visiting teams. Already dubbed the best student section in college football by ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit and scientifically the loudest stadium in college football, Beaver Stadium is...
For all you nuts out there, let Michael David Barrett be the example of why, among obvious reasons, you should not stalk and secretly shoot nude photos of quasi-celebrities, or any person for that matter. On Monday, a federal judge sentenced Mr. Barrett for 2 ½ years for his secretly shooting nude videos of ESPN’s Erin Andrews. It is known that Barrett did this act of voyeurism in at least three cities shooting videos through hotel peepholes. He would...
