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Beginning Tuesday, McDonald’s will bring exclusive preview screenings of Focus Features’ RACE, the long-awaited movie about gold medal champion Jesse Owens, to five theaters across the country. In conjunction with local McDonald’s franchisees and community partners, the movie will receive exclusive screenings in Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and ...

The Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship,  the largest annual collegiate Rugby Sevens event in the world, today announced that the field for the 2016 Women’s Collegiate Championship will expand to 16 teams for the first time ever, and that the women’s championship final will be televised live nationally on NBC ...

Is Penn Mutual becoming to rugby what Allstate is to college football? It appears so, as the Horsham, Pa.-based company today announced an extension of their landmark deal with the Collegiate Rugby Championships and The Varsity Cup for an unspecified number of years, along with an added investment to promote ...

Were the ratings for Super Bowl 50 up or down? Depends on who you ask… CBS says: CBS Sports’ Coverage Of Super Bowl 50 Is Most-Watched Program In Television History As 167.0 Million Viewers Watch All Or Part Of Game The CBS Television Network’s coverage of Super Bowl 50 featuring ...

The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP), the premiere domestic professional beach volleyball tour in the U.S., today officially announced its 2016 schedule, which includes eight events in seven states, including the final FIVB Olympic Qualifying event in the U.S. before Rio, in Cincinnati. Tournaments will be held from April through ...

There are some restrictions* (*there always are), but this news from Verizon Wireless on the availability of NBA LEAGUE PASS on go90, its mobile entertainment platform. Starting February 6, fans can watch live out-of-market NBA games through NBA LEAGUE PASS on go90.  From February 6-7, all registered go90 users can ...

Strong television ratings and packed stadia for the National Football League playoff games further validate the sport’s broad popularity and limit stadia competition, Fitch Ratings says. The NFL’s playoff games were successful despite their relatively small markets. Ninety-nine million viewers nationwide watched the games on January 23, and coverage in ...

beIN SPORTS announces the schedule for its exclusive coverage of the highly-anticipated 2016 Six Nations Rugby tournament, kicking off Saturday, February 6. The annual competition will be broadcast on both beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS CONNECT, the network’s streaming service, for U.S. and Canada audiences. Original programming designed to showcase ...

Red Bull Global Rallycross and NBC Sports Group are pleased to announce that Red Bull GRC coverage will once again return to NBC and NBCSN in 2016. For the second consecutive season, NBC will broadcast live coverage of all 2016 GRC Supercar races. In addition, NBCSN will telecast encore presentations ...

For over a half century, Marty Glickman was the pre-eminent voice of New York sports – and perhaps the most influential sports broadcaster of all time. Beginning as radio announcer of the original New York Knicks n 1946, he created a now-familiar sports lexicon, including swish! Yet Glickman – who ...