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03/19/2010Hot air: Talk of the tourney Things I learned watching the greatest two days of the year in sports television: first-round games of the NCAA Tournament.03/13/2010Hot air: Pay-per-view is latest heavyweight in boxing An absolutely free 12-round pay-per-view primer in advance of tonight's Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey welterweight title fight at Cowboys Stadium, available on HBO Pay-Per-View at the suggested retail price of $49.95:03/05/2010Hot air: Fran Fraschilla is college basketball's Messenger of March Fran Fraschilla, a University Park resident, is in his eighth season as an ESPN college basketball analyst.02/26/2010Hot air: Success of U.S. hockey delights NBC NBC couldn't have drawn up a better script for the closing day of the Vancouver Winter Olympics. It will have the U.S. men's hockey team play in Sunday afternoon's gold medal game. Faceoff is scheduled for 2 p.m.02/19/2010Hot air: Games cranking out gold-medal TV ratings It happens every Olympics. The old debate: live vs. tape.02/12/2010Hot air: A long time calling for Marv Albert Marv Albert seemingly has been the voice of the NBA forever. He will be on the play-by-play call Sunday for TNT's coverage of the NBA All-Star Game at Cowboys Stadium. By his count, it will mark his 12th All-Star Game – if you count radio. 02/08/2010CBS Super Bowl broadcast botches a critical call CBS got the competitive game it wanted from the Saints and Colts. When the ratings are released today, it will be the most-watched Super Bowl ever. Unfortunately, the broadcast stumbled to the finish with a couple of premature calls from the booth.02/06/2010Keeping focus while watching Olympic Games Columnist Barry Horn gives a list of items to ponder if you'll be watching all or any part of the XXI Winter Olympic marathon from Vancouver.02/05/2010Hot air: Record number seen as possibility for Super Bowl Anyone who has been paying attention knows this has been a boffo season for NFL ratings and viewership on all networks. CBS is feeling so good about Sunday's Colts-Saints Super Bowl that one of its executives made a rare public prediction this week. 01/30/2010On Michael Irvin's agenda, radio show rates No. 1 If I were a betting man, I'd have laid odds that Michael Irvin would never celebrate his second anniversary at ESPN-FM (103.3). I figured he would get bored with radio and walk as soon as he got himself a new TV deal. Lots of other people, including his friends, thought the same thing.01/29/2010Hot air: On Michael Irvin's agenda, radio show rates No. 1 If I were a betting man, I'd have laid odds that Michael Irvin would never celebrate his second anniversary at ESPN-FM (103.3). I figured he would get bored with radio and walk as soon as he got himself a new TV deal. Lots of other people, including his friends, thought the same thing.01/22/2010Hot air: Lundquist has had bowls aplenty In going back and forth with CBS' Verne Lundquist this week, I was reminded he has been in the catbird seat for some of the top moments in recent sports history. Lundquist, a former radio voice of the Cowboys who doubled as a Channel 8 anchor, remained with the Cowboys through the 1983 season, when he moved full time to CBS.01/17/2010Fox ruled out Cowboys comeback on Vikings fairly early Sports media columnist Barry Horn is sure that Buck and analyst Troy Aikman gave up on the Cowboys with the score 27-3 and six minutes left in the game. He writes that it seemed pretty early.01/15/2010Hot air: The stage gets bigger Sports media isn't a bad beat to pound. Networks encourage broadcasters to respond to interview requests. Sometimes, when something big is on the horizon, networks hold paychecks to the broadcasters' heads and nudge them into conference calls.01/08/2010Hot air: Big games are Al Michaels' calling Al Michaels is the premier play-by-play voice of his generation. And if you listen closely enough, he's not afraid to mix in commentary and opinion.ABC off the mark on McCoy's injury Quote of the game: "Didn't look all that serious, but we'll see."03/09/2009Sports Media blog: Texans top Cowboys in number of radio listeners
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It's Wade Phillips' first game at Texas Stadium as coach of the Cowboys.
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