TENNIS: US OPEN Announcers on CBS
September 1, 2009 at 2:29 pm | In Sports, TV Sports | 9 CommentsAnd here’s the CBS announcer lineup for the US Open Tennis:
CBS SPORTS SERVES UP 2009 U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Men’s and Women’s Finals Highlight CBS Sports’ Coverage
Jim Courier Joins CBS Sports Announce Team
CBS Sports presents the U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS, tennis’ final grand slam of the year and the only one played in the United States. Coverage begins on Saturday, Sept. 5 (11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET) with men’s and women’s third-round action and concludes with the men’s singles final on Sunday, Sept. 13 (4:00 PM, ET). CBS Sports will broadcast over 38 hours of the 2009 U.S. Open from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
Lead play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg will be joined by expert analysts Mary Carillo and John McEnroe in the booth for the 10th consecutive year. Jim Courier joins CBS Sports U.S. Open announce team as an analyst and will call the action alongside Bill Macatee. Mary Joe Fernandez serves as reporter. Ian Eagle serves as contributor.
CBS Sports will provide live comprehensive coverage during both weekends of the event and on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7 (11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET) and on Friday, Sept. 11 (12:30-6:00 PM, ET). The 2009 women’s final live in prime time highlights the Network’s “Super Saturday” coverage on Saturday, Sept. 12 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET). All the action during CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2009 U.S. Open will be broadcast in HDTV.
CBS Sports’ schedule of live U.S. Open Tennis action as follows:
Saturday, Sept. 5 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET (men’s and women’s third round singles)
Sunday, Sept. 6 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET (men’s third round/women’s fourth round)
Monday, Sept. 7 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET (men’s/women’s fourth round singles)
Friday, Sept. 11 12:30-6:00 PM, ET (men’s doubles final/women’s semi-finals)
Saturday, Sept. 12 12:00 NOON-6:00 PM ET (men’s semi-finals)
8:00-10:00 PM, ET (women’s singles final)
Sunday, Sept. 13 4:00-7:00 PM, ET (men’s singles final)
For the 14th consecutive year, CBS Sports will broadcast ARTHUR ASHE KIDS’ DAY PRESENTED BY HESS on Sunday, Aug. 30 (12:00 NOON-1:30 PM, ET).
Working his 29th U.S. Open, Bob Mansbach will serve as coordinating producer of CBS Sports’ live coverage of tennis’ final grand slam of the year for the 20th year. Mansbach and David Winner will produce, and lead director Bob Fishman and Jim Cornell will direct. Mansbach and Ken Mack will produce ARTHUR ASHE KIDS’ DAY, and Suzanne Smith will direct. Harold Bryant is Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.
TENNIS: US OPEN Announcers on ESPN
September 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm | In Sports, TV Sports | 20 CommentsPeople have been coming to this blog and seeing my post about the US Open golf announcers, so here’s ESPN’s press release about their announcers for the tennis:
ESPN has televised tennis since its first week on the air nearly 30 years ago, but on Monday, August 31, it will do what no U.S. network has ever done – complete the Grand Slam by televising the US Open for the first time. In the first year of a six-year agreement with the USTA, tennis fans will enjoy 100 hours in high definition on ESPN2, US Open update shows each weekday on ESPNEWS, nearly 400 hours on ESPN360.com’s multi-court offering and coverage across ESPN’s platforms in the U.S. and around the world.
ESPN’s multimedia coverage will begin Thurs., Aug. 27, with the live, exclusive announcement of the tournament’s brackets on ESPNEWS at noon ET. Chris McKendry will host the half-hour, commercial-free show, with Mary Joe Fernandez and Patrick McEnroe. Live interviews with defending champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams from New York are planned.
Before the first ball is in the air, ESPN’s first presentation from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be on ESPN Radio and ESPN2 with Mike & Mike in the Morning. Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic will host their 6-10 a.m. show – heard on more than 350 radio stations (plus Sirius and XM Satellite Radio) and simulcast on ESPN2 – both Monday, Aug. 31, and Tuesday, Sept. 1.
During the first week of the tournament, ESPN2’s coverage will start at 1 p.m. each weekday and will continue non stop through both the day and evening sessions. A one-hour US Open Scoreboard program will lead into Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM at 7 p.m. and until 11 p.m. or play is concluded, whichever is later. The second week, ESPN2 will have Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM at 7 p.m. on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 7 (ESPN’s 30th Anniversary), followed by 12-hour windows Tuesday – Thursday starting at 11 a.m., with US Open Scoreboard at 6 p.m. and Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM at 7 p.m.
On the final day of the tournament, Sunday, Sept. 13, ESPN2 will televise live the women’s doubles championship at 1 p.m., and will review all the action at 9 p.m. with a special two-hour edition of SportsCenter presented by BMW at the US Open. Both weeks, ESPNEWS will present a two-hour weekday US Open update show at noon. As with the other three Grand Slams, ESPN2 will work with Tennis Channel to bring fans virtually round-the-clock coverage during the US Open, each utilizing its own commentators.
ESPN2’s Commentator Lineup
ESPN’s tennis team is led by Cliff Drysdale, completing his 30th year with ESPN. The former US Open finalist has been with ESPN since its first tennis telecast September 14, 1979, exactly one week after the network launched, making him second in ESPN tenure among commentators behind only Bob Ley. Chris Fowler, ESPN’s lead studio anchor for Grand Slam tennis since 2003, will serve as a host and call matches. Mike Tirico of Monday Night Football and Hannah Storm of the weekday morning SportsCenter will make their debuts as a tennis host.
They will team with John McEnroe, the four-time US Open champ who has joined ESPN for the event, plus familiar ESPNers Darren Cahill, Mary Carillo, Fernandez, Brad Gilbert, Patrick McEnroe and Pam Shriver, plus Hall of Fame tennis journalist Bud Collins. Shriver will frequently be utilized as a sideline reporter and as a roving reporter covering play in “outer courts”, as will Luke Jensen, and the McEnroes will at times be teamed together to form a sibling booth pairing. In addition, Tom Rinaldi will provide essays and conduct interviews during the first week and Rick Reilly will contribute commentary.
BLOGS: A New One to Behold
May 12, 2009 at 2:05 am | In Sports | 1 CommentQuite possibly the best blog name I’ve seen in a long time, http://bustedknees.wordpress.com/ has joined the fray. I’m promoting it because of its content — it’s top notch — and really, that’s the only reason.
Well, maybe because it’s co-written by one of my bosses….
TIU OUTTAKES: The Beauty of the Playoffs
April 20, 2009 at 11:09 pm | In Sports | Leave a CommentThe NBA playoffs started on Friday. The NHL playoffs started this past Wednesday. All over this campus, fans of different teams are intense, rooting for their teams. They then get elated if they win (see: the 76ers and Bulls in their game 1’s) or end up in cursing rages if they lose (see: the Magic and Celtics in their game 1’s).
The NBA’s slogan is “Where Amazing Happens” but I’d argue that it crosses into all sports. Someone could potentially knock Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins out of the playoffs as fast as Derrick Rose can say adios to Paul Pierce.
Playoffs give a boost to the fans like nothing else — they know it’s do or die, and that one made basket or goal or catch could have all the impact in the closing seconds. THIS is why you grind all off season, preseason and regular season — to get to this moment where all is on the line.
It transfers into golf too — just at a much faster rate — and transfers into almost any sport imaginable. Non-fans get attracted to…everyone wants to win, right?
The playoffs, where amazing DOES happen.
NCAA Men’s College Basketball: My Final 4
March 19, 2009 at 11:18 am | In Sports | 3 CommentsCollege Basketball on a national level isn’t really my deal, but of course I filled out a bracket. My Final 4 is:
Louisville, North Carolina, UCONN, and Pittsburgh.
My final matchup is Louisville versus North Carolina, and my national champion is North Carolina.
Watch it on CBS over the next 3 weeks to find out if I’m right.
TIU Outtake: Michael Phelps
February 16, 2009 at 10:25 am | In Sports, TIU Outtakes | Leave a CommentNewsflash: young people in the spotlight who are under massive amounts of pressure sometimes mess up. Evidently Michael Phelps did in fact smoke pot from a bong in South Carolina late in 2008. He messed up, he apologized, and he will feel the wrath of his mistake for a while as he lost a sponsor and will have his doubters all over sport. But some of the stuff said about him in the media has me extremely puzzled.
He’s young — I believe he’s only 23 — and sometimes when your young and wreck less you lose track of what you’re doing and have some issues. There was a book written in I think 1998 about Tiger Woods saying how mean and immature of a person he was, how he was horrible to the media and a bunch of other stuff on the like. I still get people who come up to me today and say outdated stuff about Tiger. He’s moved on, got a better team of people around him, matured, and now actually likes the media.
Phelps has said he’s enjoying being back in the pool, around his coaches and the people he’s most familiar with. I’m sure, knowing how much of a competitor he is, that this has sufficiently gotten him angry and will motivate him like none other for the World Championships later this year. Just like people doubting Tiger will probably motivate him to come out firing on all cylinders when he returns to the PGA Tour, I have a feeling this is going to light a fire under Phelps and propel him to set new records in the pool.
Young people do mess up — we’re young, sometimes stupid, and sometimes don’t know how to deal with the pressure of newfound fame and stardom. Let us grow up, and then watch what we do.
FYI for the Tirico and Van Pelt Inquierer
December 30, 2008 at 12:29 am | In Sports, Springsteen | Leave a CommentOne of the cool things about having a blog is that you can see the web searches that people are entering that eventually land them on your blog.
Someone already today (this blog switches over to the next day at 7pm ET) was landed here under the search “tirico and van pelt springsteen song.” The person is referring to the ESPN Radio show “Tirico and Van Pelt” featuring Mike Tirico and Scott Van Pelt.
Well as someone who listened to them a bunch when they first launched, I can tell you the only 2 Bruce songs I heard were “Radio Nowhere” and “Last to Die,” both off his 2007 album Magic.
Hope that helps if you come searching here again.
An Interesting Read on Sports and Life…
December 24, 2008 at 1:32 am | In Sports | Leave a Comment…is at Ranger Reporter.
If you ever wondered why us fans get so enthralled with a simple game, read the entry. You’ll enjoy it.
Rangerjoe Rises Again
September 23, 2008 at 10:15 pm | In Sports | Leave a CommentMy Ranger fan buddy has risen again with a new blog for the 2008-2009 New York Rangers season.
Link to it here.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
March 20, 2008 at 2:42 pm | In Sports | Leave a CommentCollege Basketball is not quite my thing, but as so many of you know today is Day 1 of the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. We’ve all filled out our brackets for who will win the big dance out of the field of 65. My Final 4 is:
North Carolina, Kansas, Memphis, and Duke.
Championship game: UNC vs Duke
Winner: UNC
We’ll see it all pans out.
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