The more than 100,000 attendees of Saturday’s Preakness Stakes in Baltimore will have access to free Wi-Fi service, as well as a free wireless app. Owings Mills-based Believe Wireless Broadband and the Maryland Jockey Club, owner of Pimlico Race Course,…
5/16 – ESPN Launches its First Spanish Website
ESPN has started a new website, ESPNDeportesLA.com, that will include a heavier focus on international soccer and boxing. This is ESPN’s first Spanish-language local website, as they are hoping to expand their coverage and tap into the fastest growing population…
5/16 – Cablevision to Launch MMA Channel
Cablevision will launch a new sports channel devoted to mixed martial arts and other combat sports by the end of the month. The channel, Fight Now TV, will be available on Cablevision’s sports and entertainment tier when it launches May…
5/16 – Former Redskin Takes Shots at Norv
Shar Pourdanesh, former offensive lineman for the Redskins, Steelers, and Raiders from 1996 to 2001, today said on The Sports Junkies on 106.7 the Fan in DC, that head coach Norv Turner was always nervous and had trouble calling offensive…
5/16 – Bucs Pass on Hard Knocks, Is Carolina the Next Choice?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced Monday that they have declined to be featured on this year’s version of the HBO show Hard Knocks. There’s a chance there won’t even be a Hard Knocks for the 2011-12 season, given the NFL…
5/16 – ESPN Is Upping the Olympics Bid Ante
ESPN, a unit of Disney Corp., is considering the idea of supplementing its TV rights offer with a marketing deal from its parent company. A deal being considered would make Disney a member of The Olympic Partner (TOP) program, the…