More outtakes
Not everything fits nicely into one weekly media column or a small notebook in the L.A. Daily News.
We got leftovers that may, or may not, be better than a meatloaf sandwich.
Such as:
-- We told you last week how Spero Dedes and Sterling Sharpe will call Matt Leinart's first NFL exhibition game, Saturday at 5 p.m. on the NFL Network when Arizona faces New England. The weird thing: Game producer Mark Loomis, who is the new coordinating producer of NFL Network Game coverage, was also the producer of Leinart's final game, the 2006 Rose Bowl game on ABC.
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-- DirecTV announced it will supplement the USA Network’s early-round coverage of the upcoming U.S. Open tennis tournament (Aug. 28-Sept. 10) with a similar interactive element used for its “NFL Sunday Ticket� package, allowing viewers to watch five matches simultaneously on a “mix� channel. More than 100 extra matches will be served up on this service free to DirecTV subscribers.
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-- Fox's coverage of the Yankees-Red Sox game Saturday (10 a.m.) goes to 73 percent of the country (including L.A.), with Kenny Albert and Tim McCarver on the call.
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-- FSN Prime Ticket starts cranking out its Pac-10 football preview shows next week, 30-minute blasts from each campus, hosted by Lindsay Soto, with commentary from Petros Papadakis. Two schools are featured each night between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m.
Here's how it lines up:
Monday: Arizona and Arizona State
Tuesday: USC and UCLA
Wednesday: Oregon and Oregon State
Thursday: Washington and Washington State
Friday: Cal and Stanford
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ESPN's first "Monday Night Football" regular-season telecast is actually a doubleheader on Sept. 11. The team of Mike Tirico, Joe Theismann, Tony Kornheiser, Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya will do the Minnesota-Washington game at 4 p.m., while Brad Nessler, Ron Jaworski, Dick Vermeil and Bonnie Bernstein do the San Diego-Oakland contest at 7:15 p.m.
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CBS' only real move in the NFL offseason is adding Charley Casserly, the former GM of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans, as an "insider" for its pregame show.
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Our favorite kickball duo, Steven Cohen and Nick Geber , launch a new soccer talk show on Fox Soccer Channel called “Fox Football Fone-In� starting Tuesday at 5 p.m. The show replaces “Fox Football Friday,� which the two have hosted since 2004. The new show will sound more like their World Soccer Daily weekday radio broadcast (10 a.m.-to-noon).
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And our favorite media-related story from The Onion this week....
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