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unusual facts about Fox Sports


Lee Carseldine

Carseldine continues to be involved in cricket through media commitments with regular commetating on ABC Grandstand and Fox Sports whilst also being employed by the ACA as a Past Player Welfare and Game Development Coordinator.


Anne Marie Anderson

In 2010 Anderson hosted the PAC 10 Women’s Basketball tournament on Fox Sports Net alongside Lisa Leslie, as well as served as a sideline reporter on regular season games.

Christine Brennan

Brennan now is a sports columnist for USA Today, an on-air commentator for ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, NPR and Fox Sports radio and the author of seven books, including the national best-seller Inside Edge.

Damien Fleming

He has been heard on Melbourne’s Triple M and SEN 1116 radio, and is a specialist cricket commentator for ABC Radio Grandstand, Channel Ten and Fox Sports.

Dave Pasch

Before working with ESPN, Pasch worked for the West Virginia Radio Corporation for high school football; CBS Radio/Westwood One for golf, NFL, and college basketball tournaments; Fox Sports for NFL Europe and NFL, Detroit Vipers, and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.

Fox Sports Go

Fox Sports has announced that Super Bowl XLVIII will be streamed for free through the Fox Sports Go app as well as on their website.

Jeanne Zelasko

Zelasko was hired by Fox Sports in 1996 as part of the original broadcast team anchoring the newly formed Fox Sports Net's National Sports Report, as well as a sideline reporter for Fox NFL Sunday.

Ken Singleton

After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the middle 1980s and, has worked for TSN (The Sports Network) as a television color commentator and as a radio color commentator on Montreal Expos broadcasts and as a color commentator for Fox Sports.

Larry McReynolds

Lawrence Joseph McReynolds III (born January 10, 1959) is a former NASCAR crew chief and currently serves as a racing analyst on Fox Sports, TNT and a columnist on Foxsports.com.

Laurie Daley

In September 2007, Daley left his commentary position with Fox Sports and signed a contract with the Nine Network to co-present much of their rugby league coverage, from appearing on the weekly rugby league topic show The Footy Show, to commentating on Nine's weekend league coverage.

Matt Painter

ESPN's Andy Katz selected Purdue as the preseason #1-ranked team for the 2011 season, while Fox Sports selected them as the #4 favorite.

Max Handelman

After a short stint as an investment banker, Handelman became a director at News Corporation, where he helped to launch Fox Sports' fantasy football division.

Mike Harper

Mike has interviewed many ARCA and NASCAR stars, television executives/personalities from ESPN, Fox Sports and Speed Channel, and national personalities like wrestler/movie star Bill Goldberg and Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks.

Ned Zelić

Zelic has also appeared as a football analyst for Fox Sports.

Pam Oliver

In 1995, Oliver joined Fox Sports, where she currently works as a sideline reporter with the network's number-one broadcast team of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.

Patti Wheeler

The company produces motorsports related material and has worked with Fox Sports, SPEED, ESPN, ABC, NBC and CBS for live race programming, documentaries, episodic and news series.

Toby Lightman

Lightman performed the opening theme to Fox Sports' coverage of the NASCAR racing season with a song titled "NASCAR Love (Let's Go Racing)".

WMYO

Beyond weather warnings denoted with WDRB's news logo on the bottom of the screen, WMYO only carries WDRB newscasts in pre-emption situations such as primetime Fox Sports broadcasts such as NASCAR races and MLB and NFL games.

WSKX

On January 10, 2008, it was noted that the station had dropped country and was simulcasting sister station WQSO 96.7 (oldies) with WUBB's website stating "Coming Soon! Sports Radio" with a link to MSN's Fox Sports page, implying that the new format would be Fox Sports Radio, seeing as the station is owned by Clear Channel Communications, which, in turn, owns Fox Sports Radio.


see also

Arnaz Battle

A USA Today honorable mention All-America and third-team All-South quarterback by Fox Sports South.

BigSoccer

In 2003, BigSoccer partnered with News Corporation's Fox Sports World (now Fox Soccer Channel) to become the network's official online community provider.

Eri Yoshida

On August 21, 2010, she was the feature story on FOX Sports' This Week In Baseball, where she was shown meeting her idol, Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield.

Etak

It was during this time that Fox Sports' FoxTrax hockey puck was introduced for use in NHL telecasts, using Etak GPS technology (there is a display in the Etak lobby).

Fox Sports Kansas City

During the college football season, Fox Sports Kansas City airs Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats games at different times to ensure that there are no broadcast conflicts.

Missouri Tigers football games are available only from an alternate feed of Fox Sports Kansas City.

Fox Sports Live

Fox Sports Live serves as Fox Sports 1's sportscast of record and is headlined by main anchors Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole, who came to FS1 from the Canada's main English-language cable sports network, TSN, where the pair gained popularity for their irreverent presentation of sports news while serving in late-night anchor roles on that network's SportsCentre.

Fox Sports New Orleans

Besides the Pelicans, Fox Sports New Orleans also airs games from Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and the NHL's Dallas Stars (both via sister channel Fox Sports Southwest), as well as Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference collegiate sporting events.

Fox Sports Southwest

In 1996, the network became Fox Sports (Net) Southwest, upon News Corporation's purchase of the Prime Networks and its merger with the SportsChannel networks.

Hiroyuki Nakajima

One major league executive told Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports that Nakajima's range at shortstop is average "at best," and a different evaluator told Buster Olney of ESPN that he is not an everyday player.

Jeremy St. Louis

The Fox Sports World Report re-launched as the new Fox Soccer Report with St. Louis, Carlos Machado, Derek Taylor and Mitch Peacock.

Mark Gubicza

In 2007, he was paired with José Mota on fifty Angels telecasts on Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket and KCOP.

Mieke Buchan

SPORTS - Throughout her career Buchan has covered events including the Olympic Games, the US Open, and French Open tennis tournaments (for Tennis Channel), Australian Open Tennis (for Triple M) World Cup Soccer (SBS), the Super Bowl, Formula One, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship (Fox Sports America), the Crown Australian Poker Championship (Aussie Millions), Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Mike Pagel

He also serves as analyst for the pregame, halftime and postgame shows on WTAM and WMMS during Browns games and offers television color commentary on college games on Fox Sports Network.

National Sports Report

The program began in 1996, when FSN was launched, as Fox Sports News.

Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Event Analyst

2001 Terry Bradshaw (Fox) (Studio); Tim McCarver (Fox) (Sports Event)

Paul Keels

Keels also worked for the Cincinnati Bengals as a preseason announcer on WKRC-TV from 2000–2010, and worked on the Cincinnati Reds Television Broadcasts for Fox Sports Ohio in 2010.

Sports Time

The Kansas City Royals have been shown on its own network, RSTN; Fox Sports Net; Metro Sports, or a combination of them over the years; it is Fox Sports Net-exclusive as of 2008.

Tamir Goodman

He earned recognition in Sports Illustrated and was interviewed by ESPN, 60 Minutes and Fox Sports.

The Big Chill at the Big House

The game was available on the internet via Fox Sports Detroit's website, and in Alaska via KFXF.

The Next Great Champ

After the victory, Griffin was set to battle Alfonso Sanchez live on Fox Sports for the WBO "8-round" light heavyweight championship (a title that was created by the organization solely for the winner of this show, as most title fights are 10 or 12 rounds in length), but the bout never materialized.

The Spaces Between

This song is featured in Rugby 08 and Fox Sports advertisements for the 07/08 season of domestic cricket.