Your Full 2011 MLB League Championship Series Schedule

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American League Championship Series - Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers 
FOX- Joe Buck, Terry Francona (Game 1 & 2), Tim McCarver (Games 3-7), Ken Rosenthal

National League Championship Series - Milwaukee Brewers vs. St. Louis Cardinals
TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, John Smoltz, Craig Sager

Saturday, October 8th

ALCS Game 1, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:30/8:05 pm)

Sunday, October 9th

NLCS Game 1, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 3:30/4:05 pm)
ALCS Game 2, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:00/7:45 pm)

Monday, October 10

NLCS Game 2, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm)

Tuesday, October 11

ALCS Game 3, Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers (FOX 7:30/8:05 pm)

Wednesday, October 12

ALCS Game 4, Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers (FOX 4:00/4:19 pm)
NLCS Game 3, Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm)

Thursday, October 13

ALCS Game 5*, Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers (FOX 4:00/4:19 pm)
NLCS Game 4, Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

Friday, October 14

NLCS Game 5*, Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

Saturday, October 15

ALCS Game 6*, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

Sunday, October 16

NLCS Game 6*, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 3:30/4:05 pm)* - If Necessary
ALCS Game 7*, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:45/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary, ^ If ALCS ends, TBS 7:30/8:05

Monday, October 17

NLCS Game 7*, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

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Listen To Bob Uecker's Call Of Nyjer Morgan's NLDS-Clinching Hit

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When I think of Bob Uecker, I think of Harry Doyle. When Brewers (and most baseball) fans think of Bob Uecker, they think one of baseball's best announcers. They're not wrong -- he's brilliant -- but 'Major League' introduced me to Uecker and, thus, to me he'll forever be the guy who once inquired, "That's all we got? One goddamn hit?"

But in real life he's always been a legendary announcer for the Brewers (and WWF and Miller Lite commercials) and thanks to The Outside Corner, we have his awesome call of Nyjer Morgan's one goddamn game-winning hit that propelled the Brewers into the NLCS (no Nyjer Morgan f-bombs included, unfortunately): 

Bob Ueckers call of Nyjer Morgans winning hit (mp3)

Monty, anything to add? ... He's not the best color man in the league for nothing, folks! 

Stunning! ESPN Pimps Longhorn Network During Texas/Oklahoma Game

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Of course, it doesn't take a degree in journalism to see the conflict of interest between ESPN's role in college football and their sizeable financial backing of the Longhorn Network.  Heck, it makes Craig James look like a beacon of virtue (oh hey Poynter, we're still waiting for that Craig James article by the way).  We've covered the news exaustively at AA in the offseason, but now that the college football season has started, we've seen how ESPN has decided to delicately dance around the 10,000 pound elephant in the room.  

First, there was the mysterious appearance of Texas on ESPN's website amongst other top 25 teams when the team wasn't ranked.  Now today, during the Red River Rivalry game, fans saw the definition of a shameless plug from stalwarts Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit.  Naturally, amongst all the talk of how important it was for people in Texas to call their cable operator, there was no mention of ESPN's involvement in the network.  But hey, you get to watch LIVE TEXAS PRACTICES!!  I guess mentioning the force and money behind the Longhorn Network would actually involve transparency and journalistic integrity and all of those silly things ESPN clearly doesn't believe in any more. 

[Video H/T SportsGrid]

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The 2011 Pam Ward Chronicles Week 6

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There's a new leader at the top of the Pammies standings for the first time this season.  Your friend and mine Craig James has replaced Pam Ward at the top of the standings with Gary Danielson and Matt Millen close behind.  A lot of great games all throughout the day starts with the Red River Rivalry and ends with Ohio State/Nebraska on ABC.  Oh, wait, that Ohio State game is going to be terrible... and Millen's announcing?  God, it's going to be a long night in Columbus.  Leave us with all the best and most awful quotes you hear throughout this football Saturday and we'll put it to a vote on Monday.

Week 6 Announcing Schedule

Week 5 winners and updated standings
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"If Oregon wants to win, they can't take advantage of mistakes." - Craig James (via bjo109)

"Since transferring from Buffalo, Maynard plays in much louder stadiums." - Jesse Palmer (via bjo109) Ya think? 

"Friday nights have a tradition: there's always a one point last second drive." - Jesse Palmer (via bjo109) loves those one point drives.

After Series-Clinching Walk-Off Hit, The Nyjer Morgan Postgame Interview Goes Expectedly

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The Brewers just defeated the Diamondbacks in extras to win their first postseason series since 1982. It was the boisterious Nyjer Morgan who delivered a single into centerfield that scored Carlos Gomez for the walk-off win. TBS' Sam Ryan was in the middle of interviewing Ryan Braun until a dancing Morgan interrupted their interview. Ryan then ditched Braun, and attempted to interview Morgan instead. For those of you who get their jollies from unedited swearing on the air, you'll enjoy this short but sweet interview with Morgan.

For good measure, Morgan even throws in a Ric Flair "WOOOOO" in there as well.

Here's The Detroit Radio Call Of The Tigers Ousting The Yankees

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The local radio calls almost always trump the national calls in enthusiasm, and that certainly was the case last night in the finale of the Tigers/Yankees series. In the above clip, that's 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit's Dan Dickerson on the call. Not unexpectedly, his offering is in contrast to the almost melancholy offering we were treated to by the TBS crew. To cement my nerdom in the annals of the internet, I'll throw out that my ringtone on my phone is the Dan Dickerson call of the Magglio Ordonez walk-off HR that sent the Tigers to the World Series in 2006. For 5 years that's been my ringtone, and for 5 years I've ignored my friends and allowed it to play through and go to voicemail.

The series-clinching strikeout capped off a memorable game five full of clutch pitching and insane drama. Personally, I spent much of the game writhing on the floor of my apartment as Tigers pitchers maneuvered around the Yankees 200 million dollar roster. As someone who always takes delight in Yankee schadenfreude, I'm sad that so far I have not been able to locate the John Sterling call.

In the always appropriate and necessary ALDS lockerroom celebration, Victor Martinez poured NON-alcoholic champagne on his seven-year-old son. (video via SB Nation Detroit)

Then, Tom Verducci was doused as he attempted to interview Jose Valverde.


Two more Game 5's today on TBS as Arizona/Milwaukee (5:07 PM) and St. Louis/Philadelphia (8:37 PM) compete to see which fanbases will have to continue to endure that constant "Written in the Stars" song for another series.

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Your Full 2011 Week 6 College Football Announcing Schedule

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Updates to follow...

Friday, October 7

6 Boise State @ Fresno State (9PM ESPN) Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore


Saturday. October 8

1 Oklahoma v. 10 Texas (Noon ABC) Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Erin Andrews - Cotton Bowl, Dallas

Minnesota @ Purdue (Noon ESPN) Beth Mowins, Mike Bellotti

Louisville @ North Carolina (Noon ESPN2) Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie

Maryland @ 13 Georgia Tech (Noon ESPNU) Rob Stone, Danny Kanell

Mississippi State @ UAB (Noon FSN) Ron Thulin, J.C. Pearson, Jeremy Bloom

Kentucky @ 14 South Carolina (Noon SEC Net) Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano

Connecticut @ 16 West Virginia (Noon Big East Net) Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Eamon McAnaney

22 Florida State @ Wake Forest (12:30 ACC Net) Steve Martin, Dave Archer, Scott Pryzwansky

Army @ Miami-OH (1PM ONN) Tim Bray, Gino DiGiandomenico

Boston College @ 8 Clemson (3PM ACC Net) Rich Waltz, Keith Jones, Jenn Hildreth

Illinois @ Indiana (2:30 BTN) Eric Collins, Chris Martin

18 Florida @ 2 Louisiana State (3:30 CBS) Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson

Air Force @ Notre Dame (3:30 NBC) Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock, Alex Flanagan

Miami @ 17 Virginia Tech (3:30 ABC/ESPN) Mike Patrick, Craig James

Iowa @ Penn State (3:30 ABC/ESPN) Dave Pasch, Urban Meyer, Chris Spielman, Quint Kessenich

Missouri @ 20 Kansas State (3:30 ABC/ESPN3) Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard

Pittsburgh @ Rutgers (3:30 ESPNU) Pam Ward, Dan Hawkins

Arizona @ Oregon State (3:30 FOX College Sports) Steve Physioc, Yogi Roth, Desmond Purnell

Arizona State @ Utah (3:30 FSN) Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt, Petros Papadakis

Central Michigan at NC State (3:30 ESPN3) Dave Weekley, Rene Ingoglia

South Alabama at Texas-San Antonio (5:30 Longhorn Network) Andrew Monaco, Ahmad Brooks

15 Auburn at 10 Arkansas (7:00 ESPN) Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe

Georgia @ Tennessee (7PM ESPN2) Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham

Vanderbilt at No. 2 Alabama (7:00 ESPNU) Clay Matvick, Brian Griese, Allison Williams

25 Texas A&M @ Texas Tech (7PM FX) Gus Johnson, Charles Davis, Tim Brewster

East Carolina @ Houston (7PM CBS Sports Net) Dave Ryan, Rich Rodriguez

Marshall @ Central Florida (7PM Bright House) Dave Baumann, Mark Royals

Colorado @ 4 Stanford (7:30 VS) Ted Robinson, Glenn Parker, Akbar Gbaja-Biamilla

Ohio State at No. 14 Nebraska (8:00 ABC) Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Heather Cox

Syracuse @ Tulane (8PM CST) Sean Kelley, Deuce McAllister, Eric Richey

San Jose State @ Brigham Young (10:15 ESPNU) Adam Amin, David Diaz-Infante

Texas Christian @ San Diego State (10:30 CBS Sports Net) James Bates, Aaron Taylor, Brooke Collins

UCLA @ Washington State (10:30 FSN) Joel Meyers, Brian Baldinger

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Casually Swearing Sports Personalities Starring Erin Hawksworth

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Ron Jaworski might have started something after all.  Check out this sports report from Erin Hawksworth on Seahawks Gameday from the Seattle Fox station.  She's obviously very excited about the great mood Seahawks fans are in, maybe a little too excited.  Nothing like seeing a polished TV reporter just plow through dropping an F-bomb like it didn't even happen.  Beast mode.

[h/t Hot Clicks]

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This Week In Screengrab Snafus - 10/7

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It's Friday, Friday, gettin dow... sorry, I had a relapse for a second.  It's Friday, so it's time for Screengrab Snafus, where we pull together the best and funniest screwups of the week.  Thanks to our pal Jimmy Traina at SI for featuring our roundup of graphical gaffes in Hot Clicks last week.  This week's collection is our biggest one yet thanks to your e-mails and tweets to AA.  To kick us off, Jimmy passed along the following from NFL Network.  With the way Cleveland's defense played against Tennessee last week... perhaps 4,039 tackles isn't out of the question for D'Qwell Jackson.

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Onto college football, where Notre Dame is averaging almost 100 points in the first quarter per game this season according to the following ESPN graphic.  Amazing to think they're still an incredibly mediocre football program in spite of those numbers.  Thanks to reader Mike Keeley for the snafu...

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UCLA must have seen that snafu and been motivated to really light up the scoreboard against Stanford.  Kegs 'N Eggs had the pic of ESPN's Bottom Line showing a 99-0 lead through six minutes AND they were at the Stanford 1 yard line!  I wonder if the bottom line's scoring system went according to Rick Neuheisel Football for the NES.  CLEAN SNAP TROPHIES FOR EVERYONE!!! 

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Reader Jim Jackson noticed this snafu from Sports Illustrated's Truth & Rumors.  Can you spot what's the matter with this picture?  Aside from Theo looking like he just realized he owes John Lackey 45.75 million dollars over the next three years that is...

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From Darren Rovell's award winning Twitter account comes this unfortunate typo involving All-Star Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro, which is actually his second appearance in the snafus.  Poor guy.  I think Castro would prefer the "Starling" misspelling of his name than the "Stalin" version.  At least it's better than Hitler Castro...

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Grantland's typos are so numerous they have their own running gag on Deadspin.  Matt Gamber sent us the following from Simmonstopia and their feature on the Arizona Diamondbacks.  You would think a smart, intelligent, site like Grantland would at least be wise enough to correctly list a bullpen staff.  Believe it or not, there is no Daniel Rodriguez on the D'Backs roster.  Instead, Grantland is likely looking to list David Hernandez... the same guy listed a few lines down in the article.  Did Mike Francesa write this???

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And finally, it was just last week that ESPN has spelled Oklahoma, "Oaklahoma."  Last.  Week.  This week during a tribute to the late Lee Roy Selmon, the worldwide leader tried to spell Oklahoma once again.  They FAILED once again.  This kind of thing would never happen to Texas... (h/t Bubbaprog)

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That was your week in screengrab snafus, next time be careful out there!

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Video Of A Maddening Hank Williams Jr. Debate From Outside The Lines

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That whole Hank Williams Jr. firing was bound to lead into some heated debates.  Whenever you mix political, cultural, and racial differences with a controversial firing and a Hitler reference... things get messy.  Bomani Jones of Around the Horn, syndicated Alabama radio host Paul Finebaum (no stranger to controversy), and writer Dave Zirin (no stranger to taking on fiery political issues) came together for an OTL panel to discuss Hank Jr's demise.  Given the personalities involved, the discussion was always going to become heated.  Bomani Jones' stunned facial expressions only add another layer to the discussion.  Here's the video of the segment from Guyism...

The formula is predictable - grab outspoken people from opposite ends of the political spectrum to bicker with each other.  Bomani Jones tried to add some rational, good points to the argument, but any sense and perspective was drowned out with a lot of yelling.  Here's the thing, I get where each of these guys is coming from.  Unfortunately though, rational discourse is an endangered species these days.

[H/T Guyism]

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