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Makes sense for the Canucks if this COVID year taught us anything about having an affiliate so far away As for the Devils, well, hot potatoing their way through the 88/81/Thruway triangle back towards Albany again via Utica, I guess. Give it 2 or 3 years

Don't worry, in addition to being like 2005 NHL on OLN with the bottom scorebug, the needless stretching the whole screen, the needless space underneath, putting the shot totals and power play clock in the game action on top instead of beneath with all that space, and the distracting continuous out of town scoreboard, the GOAL animation only covers the box of the team who scored while the out of town scoreboard continues unabated. Oh, and all the motion graphics reek of AT&T Sportsnet quality

Well, they did change it up, and they did seem to capture the essence of a college sports streaming service with the scorebug

Supposedly CBS and Turner had a new March Madness graphics package ready to go last year before COVID shut everything down 4 days before the Selection Show, so let's see if that was really the case later this evening. Given CBS hasn't used the Super Bowl graphics on anything since then and Turner's still rolling with a 6 year old NBA package, seeing is believing

Looks like the NHL and ESPN reunion's on the cusp of being officially official. 7 years and alternating Stanley Cup Finals with whomever NBC or Fox gets the other half

Looks like ESPN will pay a lower increase by percentage but otherwise ESPN, CBS, Fox, and NBC hold the status quo, ABC gets more MNF simulcasts and a spot in the Super Bowl rotation, and TNF will have Amazon to be NFLN's partner in carrying it

Self quote because of course Wysh tweets out he's doing a Clubhouse meetup just days after he says he wasn't touching it on Puck Soup. But yeah, be on the lookout for the NHL deal in the coming weeks because that seems to be ramping up

So kind of a busy weekend for sports TV deals talk. Chris Johnston said on Saturday Headlines it's looking like ESPN will pick up a portion of the new NHL contract, with a little additional fire poured by Wyshynski saying something about tomorrow at 2 pm with a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse .gif, though who knows if that's just Wysh going into usual trolling mode or not. The ESPN vs. Fox secondary rights fight we thought was coming might actually be NBC vs. Fox for the primary rights after all. But we'll see. Anyway, why is that timing interesting? Well, here comes this whopper from Ourand a little bit ago OOOOOOOOOFF

where's Dinger and the DeviantArt OT Challenge when you need him

God we hit page 400 of this thread

Man it's been 7 and a half years since the Tom Goes to the Mayor city council meeting and yet here we are, the Coyotes still managing to one up themselves

Daytona Speedweeks. Fox sometimes breaks out some new stuff for the 500. Last season NASCAR on Fox stuck with the older non-football set, as did MLB and MLS

They need to center the quarter and time. Overall it's fine, even though it's really just a simplified version of what they had for the scorebug. They gotta decide what theme to stick to, though, because the scorebug's really simple and flat but then they're using all these 3D graphics and animations for all the other graphics

Another video with a bit of the new graphics

This might be another hint towards what's to come on Sunday, too

CBS was using these on and off in the pre-kickoff features and with the augmented reality graphics, so don't be surprised if that's what we see on Sunday. If it is, it's... kinda like CBS and Fox's graphics had a baby Source

I'm cool with the one helmet rule with a throwback exemption. That way you can still do throwback games without muddling up the brand with alternate helmets.

Again, I know it's due to circumstance, but this is hilarious and OITGDAHL ENTIRE SCHEDULE VS. TWO OTHER TEAMS

Almost about time for the annual letdown of finding out the next year's Super Bowl logo in the current year's program

I don't think the NBCSN drop affects what was going to come with the NHL deal too much. Everybody was anticipating the next TV deal being NBC sharing it with one of ESPN or Fox, and basically now you're just swapping NBC/NBCSN plus ESPN or Fox/FS1 with NBC/USA plus ESPN or Fox/FS1. Ditto for EPL, that's heading on a one way track behind the paywall to Peacock and everyone can see that coming a mile away. NASCAR, though? That could get messy. Still another 3 years on that contract and it's not just your Sunday Cup Series race, you also have all the practices and qualifying plus Xfinity Series practices and qualifying as inventory. Tack on IndyCar and the other motorsports properties and.. well, here's your opening to bring back Speed Channel, Fox?

And so does Sportsnet (might appear with my initial reaction to NBC, then mine towards SN)

I know this is mainly due to the opt-outs out of Charlotte, Milwaukee, and Springfield, as well as the whole situation with COVID, but if this isn't the most hilarious divisional alignment I've ever seen

March 30th, 2013 I'm a senior at Syracuse. It's the final real binge watch of March Madness before the real world. Syracuse beat Indiana because Tom Crean couldn't figure out how to play against a 2-3 zone if his life depended on it, so Syracuse made it to the Elite 8 for the second year in a row. The game was in the afternoon slot. Great, right? Well, one issue. One of my best friends played on the Princeton women's lacrosse team and when we graduated high school I promised I'd see her play, most likely when the Tigers went up to Cornell either my sophomore or senior year as unlike the men, there isn't a Princeton-Syracuse lacrosse rivalry in the women's game. Sophomore year her game at Cornell was the same day another one of my friends who plays lacrosse at Plattsburgh had a game at Oswego. Oswego is considerably easier to get to from Syracuse than Ithaca, especially when you didn't have a car. So needless to say I had this trip to Cornell planned out quite in advance. So of course the Princeton-Cornell women's lax game is scheduled after the men's game between Cornell and Dartmouth for 3 pm; Syracuse-Marquette for the trip to the Final Four at 4:30. Well, good news as my friend allowed me to borrow his car and I headed down to Ithaca for the lacrosse doubleheader. Cornell blew out Dartmouth in the men's game which provided me some time to walk a bit around campus. Then it was time for the women's game. I was a bit jaded at women's lacrosse after Northwestern stall balled their way to a national title against Syracuse the year before with me in attendance, but this game made me enjoy the women's game again. Very close, exciting, fast paced game. And best yet, it was a game where my friend really stepped up and the Tigers defense locked down the Big Red at the end of the game. Princeton won so I was quite happy, and of course it was very special for the two of us to see each other after the game and it felt like a promised fulfilled. The Syracuse-Marquette game started late in the 2nd half of the lacrosse game, so I threw it on my phone. Syracuse went on a big run to start the game and that was pretty much it for the scoring in that game. But then after the game at Cornell, I hurried into my (Syracuse) friend's car, had my list of AM stations in Ithaca, Cortland, and Syracuse carrying the game, and threw it on the radio. It was a frenzied drive back from Ithaca through NY 13 and the dreaded Dryden speed trap (no, the town is not named after Cornell hero Ken Dryden), then through downtown Cortland and onto I-81. Game hits halftime just as I get onto 81. Make it back to my friends' apartment at the under-16 timeout and catch the rest of the game. Just like I do not care that the Islanders used Lou and Barry's anti-hockey to get themselves 3 periods and an overtime away from a Stanley Cup Final this year, I do not care that Syracuse-Marquette had the worst arena Elite 8 game of the decade. Syracuse's D was a machine that tournament and it was humming at full throttle this game. The nervousness was starting to wear off and it was becoming clearer and clearer that this was finally happening. Freshman year the Orange were going to win it all if A.O. doesn't get hurt in the Big East Tournament. Junior year it was destined to be Syracuse-Kentucky for the title until Fab Melo ran into his issues. Senior year? I was giving up on their chances when I walked out of the Dome for the home finale. They looked shaky against DePaul and they were losing quite a lot of games the back end of Big East play. But they went on a roll their final Big East Tournament making it to the final against soon to be national champ Louisville, and then they carried it over to the Big Dance. And then the clock ticked down, and Syracuse was going to their first Final Four in 10 years, and it just so happened to be in my senior year there! I'll never forget the scenes with all of us celebrating the win and then the drive back to main campus from south with all of frat row on Comstock Avenue becoming one big jubilation over the game. It lucked out to be one of those March days in Central New York where the weather was beautiful and in the 60s and not that late winter lake effect snow. And it just felt like the best day ever. Yes, it's a bit of a personal story day with connections to lifelong friends and the college you attend, but it really was the best day of my sports fandom life.

TNT's seriously rolling out with the same graphics package for the NBA since 2014. I know NBC's needs to be updated too given the mishmash of new wipes and other graphics and an old scorebug, but the NBA on TNT one is even more dire because of how drab it is

Not to derail the more recent graphic talk (and do send pics of the new TSN layout when you can, Canadian pals), but lately YouTube has been recommending 90s/00s NFL clips after watching some old Primetime episodes and a lot of them have been post-return NFL on CBS. Man, CBS really went out there putting a whole graphics package set to Arial and Impact as their fonts.