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Bulls Announce 2010-11 TV Schedule

The Chicago Bulls today announced their television broadcast schedule for the 2010-11 season, with Comcast SportsNet and WGN-TV/WCIU overseeing all local television duties.  All 82 regular season games will be televised, as well as all eight preseason games.  The Bulls will make 39 nationally-televised appearances on TNT, ESPN, ABC, NBA-TV and WGN America.

 
Comcast SportsNet will televise 42 regular season games, with five of those games being televised on Comcast SportsNet Plus.  Comcast SportsNet will also broadcast six of the Bulls’ eight preseason contests, including two on Comcast SportsNet Plus.  WGN-TV will televise 24 regular season contests, plus one preseason contest.  Of these, 15 regular season games will appear on WGN America.  Rounding out the local TV schedule, WCIU-TV will air seven regular season games and one preseason contest, produced by WGN Sports.  Neil Funk and Stacey King will call all local telecasts.
 

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Hang Ten Show -- September 2, 2010

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This week on Hang Ten, Fish and producer Adam Pumm talked opening games, division realignment, and gave their best shot at predicting the Big Ten season.  The guys were joined by Champaign News-Gazette Illinois beat reporter Bob Asmussen to talk about Ron Zook and his Illini.  Mike Carmin of the West Lafayette Journal and Courier was also on to discuss Purdue and its new QB Robert Marve.  Pumm gave his Heisman hopefuls and Fish outlined the draft prospects of the Big Ten's best.  Tune in Monday for a recap of this weekend in the Big Ten.

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ALL-IN FOR 2011: Fan Feedback Drives Fire’s 2011 Season Tickets Plan

 

CHICAGO, IL (Sept. 2, 2010) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced pricing today for 2011 season tickets after nearly a season’s worth of feedback from its supporters about the kind of offers and incentives they want in a Fire season ticket package. In an unprecedented move in Chicago sports, the Fire will offer free and reduced parking to a majority of season ticket holders and a 12-month payment plan that will allow Fire Season Ticket Holders to pay as low as $15 a month from Nov. of 2010 until Sept. 2011. Ninety-seven percent of all season tickets will experience no increase in ticket prices from 2010 to 2011. Season Tickets start as low as $199 for the Fire’s 20-game TOYOTA PARK schedule and feature a number of unique and exclusive benefits to being a Chicago Fire Season Ticket Holder. Fire Season Tickets can be purchased by phone at 1-888-MLS-FIRE (657-3473) or head to the club’s official website at www.Chicago-Fire.com.  
 
“The Chicago Fire operates under a fan-first philosophy, so it made sense for us to canvass our supporters and get their input for our 2011 season tickets plan – that’s how the “ALL-IN FOR 2011” campaign was born,” said Director of Ticket Sales Mike Ernst. “This is the most progressive, fan-first Season Ticket Plan in the club’s history and we believe it will help us build the club and our season ticket base well beyond where we are today.”
 

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Evans Granted Release by Notre Dame

SOURCE- Chicago Sun Times
 
Notre Dame’s head coach Brian Kelly isn’t used to having many of his scholarship players leave his program in his 20 years as the head coach. 
 
Several of Notre Dame’s highly recruited players who have expected to play sooner rather than later and may have a problem grasping Kelly’s “next man in” concept.  On Tuesday, Kelly announced that sophomore wide receiver Shaquelle Evans has asked to be released so he can transfer to another school. 
 
The 6-1, 205-pound Evans, who was rated one of the top four receiver prospects in the country as a senior in California played in six games as a freshman at Notre Dame with Charlie Weis as head coach.  In those 6 games, Evans had seven receptions for 61 yards. 
 
He was the backup to junior wide receiver stud Michael Floyd to start the pre-season training in August but lost ground to freshman TJ Jones and sophomore Theo Riddick, among others, and apparently did not see himself meshing into Kelly’s offense.
 
“We’ve granted him a release and wish him the very best,” Kelly stated.  “He’s a good kid.”

 

Mike Quade: Great Manager? Or Greatest Manager?

Mike Quade (Photo Courtesy of Chicago Tribune)As it if werent enough that Mike Quade led the Cubs to their first sweep in 137 years, inserted guys with the best OBPs at the top of the lineup, and got Tylermania back in the game, now he's managed to beat the unbeatable Pirates and possibly cure Big z's nephew:.

"The Cubs treated Dawson to a lopsided win, as Aramis Ramirez drove in four runs with two of their nine doubles, and Carlos Zambrano homered while evening his record at 6-6.
"Everything now is heading in the right direction," manager Mike Quade said.
Zambrano is 3-0 with a 1.84 earned-run average since being put back in the rotation following his stint on the restricted list. He was as buoyed by the fact his 11-year-old nephew in Venezuela, who is in a coma with a bacterial infection, is doing much better after a grim prognosis last week.
"My nephew is getting better every day," he said. "It was a miracle in my family. He's not out of intensive care yet, but he's much better than 4-5 days ago when he was diagnosed with a 5 percent chance of (living)."
But even though he's rivaling Annie Sullivan in the miracle department, Quade doesn't expect anyone to hand him the manager's job:
"I hope the overall picture is taken into account, but I'm not doing the evaluation," he said. "Some of that I'm sure will be in the mix. Look, there are a lot of good baseball people out there and I get a chance to do this in front of people. We're going to try and win every ballgame obviously, and I'm sure wins and losses will be a part of it. To what extent, that's for the people evaluating me to answer."
Quade took a moment to look around the ballpark during the national anthem, thinking about how fortunate he is to have finally reached this position. It has been a long road to Wrigley, but the wait was worth it.
"It's not just about being here," he said. "But it's about where I've been, and I've been damn near everywhere, so this is a pretty good place to end up right now."

Read more: Mike Quade: Great Manager? Or Greatest Manager?

 

Hang Ten Show - August 30, 2010

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On the debut of Hang Ten with Fish and Gotty, the guys recapped an exciting offseason in the Big Ten and the addition of Nebraska. They talked with Pete Bigelow of AnnArbor.com about the Michigan Wolverines and another season of low expectations in Ann Arbor. ESPN Big Ten blogger Adam Rittenberg helped preview the Big Ten season, looking at what teams and players could be big surprises. The guys introduced the Fish Tank and G-Status as well as the 11 at 11 segments, then made their predictions for the 2010 Big Ten bowl games.

 

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Wrigley: the Worst Home-Field Advantage in Baseball

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I love Wrigley Field. I do. It's one of my favorite places in the world. I say that to inform you that nothing in this post is out of spite for the venue I revere as a mecca of the baseball world. And as much as I give Cubs fans a hard time, I don't really think they're worse than the fans of any other team. There are some great Cubs fans and some abominable ones just as any fan base is prone to including members from both ends of the spectrum of tolerability.

But the home-field advantage at Wrigley, for the last several decades, has been the worst in all of baseball, and I've got the numbers to prove it.

I started out investigating home-field advantage in general in the hopes of proving something about the significance of psychology in baseball. The first wave of research showed that as far back as I could look (1901) there always has been a home-field advantage league-wide. In every season of Major League Baseball, the home teams have, collectively, registered a winning record. There have been 4 seasons in which the teams of either the National League or the American League had a collective losing record at home, but it has never happened across baseball.

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B-Squared August 30, 2010

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Monday on B-Squared, the Cubs talk Carlos Zambrano as he gets ready to pitch against the potent Pirates of Pittsburgh.  Blake DeWitt and Kosuke Fukudome were very good in the month of August, but did anyone really notice?  Also, today is "Andre Dawson Day" in Chicago as proclaimed by Mayor Daley.  Bernie and Bedo debate whether or not the Cubs should retire his #8 jersey number.  And finally, former B-Squared producer and co-host of the newest show on 312sports Radio "Hang Ten with Fish & Gotty" Kevin Fishbain joins in to talk about his show which debuts Monday as well as the Big Ten football landscape for the upcoming season.

 

 

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Cubs Monday Headlines: Triumphant 4-2 Road Trip Finished

Mike Quade can ride his chariot back to Chicago with his head held high, the owner of a 4-2 managerial record. It looked like the Cubs had a good chance at 5-1 after heroics by Kosuke Fukudome. Unfortunately, Fuky also decided to not be heroic.

Kosuke Fukudome hit a 2-run homer in the top of the eighth inning to tie Sunday's game at 5-5, but a tough throwing error by Fukudome enabled the Reds to score 1 of 2 runs in the bottom of the inning as Cincinnati won to open a 5-game lead over St. Louis in the National League Central.

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B-Squared August 27, 2010

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TGIF.  Eric Wedge was interviewed by Jim Hendry for the Cubs managerial post.  How serious are his chances of landing the gig?  Joe Girardi comes to Chicago tonight!.....as his team plays the Sox.  Would he be crazy to leave the Yanks?  Or would he be stupid to not listen to the Cubs?  Julie DiCaro from 312sports.com and ChicagoNow joins the guys to cover these issues and more.  Stephen Strasburg is our for the rest of this year and next.  We'll tell you how bad it is for baseball.  Also, the Cubs try to make it four in a row tonight as they battle first-place Cincinnati as the Starlin watch continues.  And last but never least, Scott Spinelli from MLB Network chimes in as part of Fantasy Friday.

 

 

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