Big Ten Network 2010

Commissioner Jim Delany made it all official tonight on the Big Ten Network, and although Ohio State and Michigan are in different divisions, they will play each year and it will be the final game of the regular season.

-The “X’ division includes Ohio State, Indiana, Illinois, Penn State, Purdue, and Wisconsin.
BIG TEN NETWORK
-The “O” division is made up of Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern.

A team will play each school in its division every year as well as one crossover rival from the opposite division.  For Ohio State the crossover team is Michigan.  Those six games (division teams and crossover rival) are set in stone and will be played every single season.

In an effort to honor, encourage and support the thousands of Big Ten community members who give back, the Big Ten Network is launching Give Big, a major community service initiative.

“Give Big recognizes that being a part of the Big Ten means giving back to the community in a big way.”

The first Give Big profile airs Friday during Big Ten Tailgate, which originates from the University of Iowa and features John Heineman.

It’s Lane Kiffin’s debut as Trojans head coach. The Utes have won 17 consecutive home games and are 7-0 against Big East teams.

read more

Espn3

Latest Update News About Espn 360, Espn360, Miami Hurricanes Football, Miami Hurricanes Football Schedule 2010, Espn 3, Time Warner Cable customers get ESPN3 in new deal: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Time Warner Cable Inc. customers will finally get access to the sports website ESPN3.com, even if they are not subscribers of the company’s Internet service, according to a long-term deal with The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.

In the deal, 12.7 million of Time Warner’s video subscribers and 2.4 million Bright House Networks video subscribers will get access to ESPN3.com without an extra charge. ESPN3.com offers full game videos, and recently it carried live World Cup matches that built huge audiences via computer screens in the workplace. About 7.4 million people tuned in to ESPN3.com at one point during the tournament, on average watching two hours each.

Time Warner Cable and Bright House had long been holdouts on ESPN3.com, which has been around in different forms since 2001. They said Disney’s pattern of tying fees to the number of Internet subscribers was inappropriate, since not all its Internet customers wanted to pay extra to access a single website.

In conceding the deal terms on ESPN3.com, in exchange Disney cut its most extensive deal ever with the companies. They had not renegotiated since 2000, only agreeing to a three-year extension in 2007.

Among the expanded offerings, Time Warner is launching a new college football channel called “ESPN Goal Line” that gives fans a live peek at games around the nation on Saturdays, a similar offering to the NFL Network’s “NFL RedZone.” The first program starts Saturday for sports tier subscribers. A similar service called “ESPN Buzzer Beater” will be offered for the college basketball season in January.

read more