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Paralympics special rebroadcast -- worth your time

NBC is replaying its 90-minute documentary on the Beijing Paralympics Saturday at 4:30 p.m. (chs. 11, 4). It's an emotional, uplifting look at some of the American athletes, including Marylanders Jessica Long and Tatyana McFadden. I highly recommend it -- especially...

Baseball wintry mix

Orioles fans can keep track of how their team is moving with all deliberate speed at baseball's winter meetings with ESPN's Baseball Tonight from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday next week. And what better place to make deals...

Ravens and 'Skins on 1370

Jerry Coleman reports a full roster of scheduled guests from both sides of the Ravens-Redskins conflagration on his Fox Sports 1370 show this week (3 to 6 p.m.). Today, in addition to his usual studio guest, Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston,...

From the NFL Sunday studios

Highlights from the network NFL studio shows (as provided by the networks):Fox's Howie Long on Plaxico Burress: “It’s sadly ironic that every wound in regard to Plaxico has been self-inflicted, and this is an obvious case of that.  The Giants...

Making funnies during Ravens game

Solomon Wilcots, who knew?During today's Ravens-Bengals game, CBS' cameras caught a boy in the stands holding up a little Bengals banner, but he had it upside down. Wilcots said: "I think he knew exactly what he was doing."Later on, when...

Slow down those NFL highlights

If I could make one request of you sports producers out there in network land, please stop the annoying habit of speeding up highlights to make the players look like they're in a silent movie or perhaps new versions of...

From the NFL Sunday studios

What they said Sunday (thanks to highlights from the networks):ESPN's Mike Ditka on the NFL's continuing to let the Detroit Lions play on Thanksgiving: “I think the league is missing the point. We need to put two teams on every...

A word on today's Ravens announcers on Fox

One thing that shined through about the Sam Rosen-Tim Ryan pairing doing today's game was how much they seemed like partners. They actually were talking to each other as much as talking to the audience. Lots of times, you hear...

Least wired/most wired markets

Two industrious sports media bloggers have put together lists showing the TV markets in which the highest percentage of households don't have cable or satellite and the markets in which the highest percentage do. Baltimore, where about 11 percent of...

Test your sports music knowledge

A colleague at the office just passed along this quiz, which tests how well you recognize theme music for network sports programming. I got eight of 11. A hint: Make sure you click on the play button and not the...