I need to correct/clarify myself on how the first weekends work for the two
tournaments:
The men's tournament has eight pre-selected neutral sites handling four
games on Thursday/Friday and two games on Saturday/Sunday. The women's
tournament has the sixteen top seeds hosting two games on
What strikes me - from afar - as strange here is that ESPN is still
producing the pictures.
With international football (soccer) fixtures, the per game production
costs are lower. Another network provides a world feed and local networks
supplement that to a greater or lesser degree. Sending
Two layers of complexity on this:
* CBS/Turner holds the mens rights while ESPN holds the womens rights. I
agree it would be a *very* interesting scenario if Disney held both.
* What Auriemma doesn't take into account (which is obviously not his
problem) is the precarious financial state of ESPN
Moi, in part, March 18th:
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> Happened onto AwfulAnnouncing today, and had some discoveries...
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> Under Bristology, a handful of women's NCAA division-1 basketball tourney
> games will be rendered much as NBCU has rendered selected Olympic events
> and overseas soccer games... with the
