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People who try to compare the television ratings between the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) like to say that MLB is Mickey Mouse compared to the NFL. Well these people tend to forget that the Mouse is pretty big, despite showing weakness tied to the economy. Now to make the Mickey Mouse title more official, Sports Business Journal (SBJ) is reporting that MLB has entered into a cross-licensing agreement with Disney.

Phil Chenier has been providing color analysis for broadcasts of the Washington Wizards (nee Bullets) of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the past 25 years. That is a long time to be with one team these days. In honor of his accomplishment, Comcast Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic will be presenting "Phil Chenier Night" at the Friday, April 2, 2010 game between the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards (Verizon Center, Washington, D.C.. 7:00 PM ET).

Every day people are sharing information and news with others. It may be Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and/or some other tools. The challenge becomes embracing this paradigm and finding the best way to aggregate and present it online. One sports media organization has taken an approach with a new media mashup that is at the same time simple, elegant, and as comprehensive as they want it to be.


With that being said, Eye on Sports Media is pleased to present the 2009 Bloodshot Eyeball Award for Best New Media Mashup to...

Athens, GA (Mar 14, 2010) - The selections are in. Some schools are happy. Other schools are not. All the really matters is that the 2010 Men's Division I Basketball Tournament kicks off this week.

We are pleased to once again bring you the television schedule for this event in this sortable database. When we have the game times from CBS Sports, they will all be eastern time and, except for the first games of each session, will be approximate.

With the men's 2010 brackets taken care of last Sunday evening, the NCAA yesterday unveiled the brackets for the 2010 NCAA Coronation of Connecticut, oops I mean the 2010 Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, which tips off on Saturday, March 20, 2010.

We are pleased to once again bring you the television schedule for this event in this sortable database. The times are be eastern time and, except for the first games of each session, will be approximate. All games will be on the ESPN family of networks.

Kevin Laue played his freshman year of NCAA Division I basketball in relative obscurity. As a reserve center for the Manhattan Jaspers of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), the 6-11, 230 pound Laue only scored seven points over 50 minutes in 19 games this year. Nothing phenomenal there. What is great about his story is that he is following in the footsteps of former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Abbott, playing his sport with only one hand.

Yesterday may have been the start of March Madness, but it was also the day for the 2010 Sports EMMY Award nominations to be announced. Here are this year's nominees, with our choice of who should win.

CBS Sports has announced that their coverage of the 2010 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW will be streamed live on NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) available at CBSSports.com and NCAA.com, as well as MMOD apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch and through the CBS Channel on FLO TV, which is available through AT&T and other wireless providers.

CBS College Sports will be offering close to 80 hours of programming to complement CBS Sports coverage of the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships. The Network's coverage is anchored by Adam Zucker, Tom Hart and CBS Sports' Tracy Wolfson with Wally Szczerbiak and Steve Lappas providing in-depth analysis each day. Programming will also feature analysis from CBS Sports' Greg Anthony and Seth Davis, as well as reports from CBS Sports announcers from every remote tournament site.

This photograph is just to cool not to post. Here is the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Selection Committee workroom before the pressure really gets into the process. The NCAA posted it on Facebook. You can view the image full size by clicking on it.

The Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) has announced its first "Super 11" field of sports information departments, which were deemed the best in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision during the 2009 season. In alphabetical order those 11 schools are: Buffalo, Clemson, East Carolina, Georgia, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, San Jose State, Southern California (USC), Texas and Utah.

When watching a live basketball game, one of the frustrations fans face is not knowing the on-going stats for individual players who are not in the game or who are waiting at the scorer's table to enter the game (unless of course they have a wireless device). At this week's 2010 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Women's Basketball Tournament at the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth, GA, there is an interesting solution: display the stats on the scorer's table video display. Unfortunately, this is only a 25% solution at best.

Howie Schwab of ESPN is the hero of many sport trivia geeks. He took his love of sport minutia and turned it into a career at ESPN. Many people know this ESPN producer from "Stump the Schwab" show, a show where wannabee Schwabbies take their chance to out-geek him. Usually they lose. Schwab was in Orlando this past weekend for the 2010 edition of "ESPN the Weekend," and an all-star version of his show was part of the schedule.

After watching just over two weeks of the 2010 Winter Olympics on NBC Sports, it is nice to get back to some sense of normalcy. It is also good to take a couple of days to reflect on the Vancouver Games and think about what did and did not happen via our gateway to the games: NBC Sports. And while there were a few head scratching moments during their coverage and things NBC could have done better, a lot of criticism thrown their way was not warranted.