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Vince McMahon is an actual American storyAs the eulogies for Vince McMahon’s career pile up in the wake of his not-in-any-way-forced retirement on Friday, they follow the usual script of any powerful and ungodly wealthy man’s career coming to an end. His offenses, crimes, and responsibility for the misery and violation of basically countle...

With No Games To Watch, SportsNet LA Punks Dodger Fans By Finally Reaching Deal With DirecTV & AT&T U-verseSix years after it launched as Time Warner Cable Sportsnet, and four years since it changed its name to Spectrum SportsNet LA, the channel that broadcasts Dodgers games is finally available to DirecTV and AT&T U-verse customers, just in time for fans to be able to… not watch the Dodgers....

What's About To Happen To CNNFor the journalists at CNN—everywhere, really, but especially at CNN—now is an appropriate time to become very afraid. ...

How Rupert Murdoch Could Go To War With ESPN

The blockbuster news that Rupert Murdoch bid $80 billion for Time Warner—and was at least temporarily rebuffed—points to an impending seismic shift in the media landscape. And, as the New York Times points out today, nowhere would that shift be felt more than in the business of televised sports. A F...

Columbus Crew Broadcast Features Soundtrack Of Woman Having Sex

Saturday's Columbus Crew vs. Philadelphia Union match broadcast on Time Warner Sports Channel featured a bonus, sexy interlude midway through the second half....

This Steve Nash Interview Got Off To A Pretty Horrible Start

"Why are you here?" "I own the team."...

Life At <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Is About To Become Even More Difficult

Well, this isn't good. Sports Illustrated's parent company, Time Inc., is going to spin off from its very rich corporate overlord, Time Warner. Time Inc.'s 21 magazines—which include SI, Time, People and Entertainment Weekly—will be tossed aside into a new public company....

News Corp Buys Into The YES Network, As The RSN Bubble Grows Closer To Bursting

What was rumored last week has been officially announced: News Corporation will purchase 49 percent of the YES Network, and become the single biggest shareholder in the single most lucrative regional sports network in the country....