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'Friday Night Lights' Series Finale Leaves Twitter Folk All Emotional

Excuse us for a second -- Surge Desk is a little choked up. That's because the series finale of "Friday Night Lights" aired Wednesday night on DirecTV. The show's ratings were never in Top 10 territory, but critics and fans were devoted to the show, which was as much about a community as about football. "Friday Night...

New FOX Sports Boss Eric Shanks Dreams Big Dreams

Eric Shanks has had barely a week behind the desk as the new president of FOX Sports, but that's apparently long enough for him to develop a wish list. "Wouldn't it be great if there was a time where when you thought of FOX, you thought of every professional final, the Triple Crown (and) the biggest of the big?" Shanks...

Yankees, Mariners to Bring MLB Into World of 3-D

The world of 3-D came to Major League Baseball Wednesday with the announcement that the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners will play games July 10 and 11 from Safeco Field. The 3-D telecasts, first reported by FanHouse, will be available to viewers in the areas covered by the Yankees' YES Network and the Fox Sports...

DirecTV Switches Super Bowl Channels

I live in the Cincinnati area and was enjoying watching the Super Bowl in HD on Fox affiliate WXIX. Then 8:30 pm hit ... and the screen went black (well, white and varying shades of blue). No more Super Bowl for me! I just read FanHouse Ryan Wilson's post that people were losing their Super Bowl signals across the...

DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Just Got Worse

Hard-core NFL fans who want to spend their Sundays lounging in their living rooms keeping tabs on 14 games at once have no choice but to order NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV -- that's the only game in town, as DirecTV has an exclusive deal with the league. It's a great service if you love football, and it's even greater if...