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NBC Doesn't Quite Step Up to Podium

So, another Winter Olympics are in the books, and the bobsleds, curling stones, skis, skates and rifles (and the athletes who use them) have been stored, to be dug out of the closet in roughly four years, for the next time we care about these sports.Before NBC puts away the cameras and videotape machines to be unloaded in...

NBC Bringing Different View to Olympics

In the United States, we are used to see our sporting events the second they happen, save for a possible delay of a few beats to make sure no naughty words seep through.But every two years, as is happening now with the Vancouver Games, the nation gets to play the "Are the Olympics live or aren't they?" game with NBC in the...

Stephen Colbert 'Races' Shani Davis, Interviews NBC Sports' Dick Ebersol

Stephen Colbert had one final shot to make the US Olympic team -- all he needed was a victory over Shani Davis, the fastest speed skater in the world. Fortunately for Stephen, Shani didn't know about the race until Stephen was already on the ice and ready to roll. Unfortunately for Stephen, well, watch the clip and you'll...

NBC Sports: Peacock's Next Nightmare

Now that NBC has smoothly figured out its late-night programming, media observers can chatter about another looming crisis for the Peacock Network: Dick Ebersol's next move. Ebersol, the Yale-educated Connecticut native who has run NBC Sports since 1989, announced last week that the network expects to lose money on the...

New York Times' Work Is Pulitzer-Worthy

Howard Cosell is credited with the aphorism that "Sports is the toy department of human life," which, of course, reduces athletics to little more than a diversion.Perhaps it was that way in Cosell's day, when the games were carefree. However, in modern life, with millions of dollars often riding on a free throw or...

DickEbersol News From the Web

05/21/12 How The Big East Died, And Was Dead All Along Source: High School Sports Zoom To write the epitaph of the Big East, we welcome Northeasterner Bobby Big Wheel.
05/16/12 University to award 10 honorary degrees at Commencement Source: The Observer - University of Notre Dame & St. Mary's College - Notre Dame IN Notre Dame will award 10 honorary degrees at this year's commencement ceremony, in addition to the honorary degree given to commencement speaker Haley Scott DeMaria.
05/11/12 The Premier League Invades U.S. Television on Sunday,... Source: The Big Lead Sunday should be a landmark day for soccer in the United States.
05/01/12 11 to receive Notre Dame honorary degrees May 20 Source: South Bend Tribune - South Bend IN A former business dean, a longtime NBC producer and a Holy Cross priest are among those who will receive honorary degrees at the University of Notre Dame 's 167th commencement on May 20.