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posted by on December 29, 2012 11:45 AM

ESPN Radio’s Rosinski and crew deliver college football coverage coast to coast (and everywhere in between)

David Norrie (left) and Bill Rosinski will call five of ESPN Radio’s 24 bowl games. (Scott Clarke / ESPN Images)

David Norrie (left) and Bill Rosinski will call five of ESPN Radio’s 34 bowl games. (Scott Clarke / ESPN Images)

Editor’s note: If you want to see a lot of college football before the holidays end, ESPN grants your wish. Between today and Tuesday, Jan. 1, there are 15 college football bowl games airing on ESPN, ABC and various ESPN platforms. ESPN begins airing the BCS Bowls on Jan. 1; our analysts picked the winners of the five BCS games, including ESPN’s Jan. 7 Discover BCS National Championship between Notre Dame and Alabama.

And fret not if you’ll be away from your primary viewing option: ESPN Radio has you covered with audio play-by-play from the best in the business:

ESPN Radio’s lead college football play-by-play man Bill Rosinski literally becomes a student of the game this time of year — a time of year that ESPN Radio has broadcast every BCS Bowl game since 2000.

“It’s like cramming for a final exam,” he says of preparing for a 4-games-in-8-day stretch that began Thursday night in San Diego with the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl and continues Saturday night in Tempe, Ariz. for the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. He and analyst David Norrie and reporter Joe Schad will then be off to Miami for the Jan. 1 Discover Orange Bowl, then back Arizona for the Jan. 3 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Glendale.

If the travel doesn’t get to you, the Ducks will. continue reading…

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posted by on December 27, 2012 9:14 AM

Front & Center: Matt Fortuna and Chris Low

University of Notre Dame (Allen Kee/ESPN Images)

Notre Dame (Allen Kee/ESPN Images)

Alabama (Phil Ellsworth/ESPN Images)

Alabama (Phil Ellsworth/ESPN Images)

Click HERE to listen or visit iTunes to download the podcast and be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Front & Center podcast. Also, make sure to check out the ESPN Radio app, available for the iPad.

On Monday, Jan. 7 in Miami, Notre Dame and Alabama will decide which team is the king of college football this season.

ESPN has the Discover BCS National Championship Game (8:30 ET, ESPN) covered from all the angles, including on ESPN.com.

Blogger Matt Fortuna reports on Notre Dame football for ESPN.com. Blogger Chris Low reports on the Southeastern Conference and Alabama football for ESPN.com. Both will be in Miami beginning Jan. 2 to offer full coverage of the mammoth match-up.

In the “Front & Center” podcast above, the bloggers discuss how they’ll do their jobs in Miami before, during and after the game; how bowl game player and coach access differs from the regular season; and more.

Filed in: Front & Center, Podcast

posted by on October 7, 2012 4:29 AM

All aboard: College GameDay going to Notre Dame

College GameDay, shown here during its Dallas visit earlier this season, will be in South Bend for the first time in seven years this coming Saturday.

College GameDay Built by The Home Depot — returning to South Bend, Ind., for the first time since Oct. 15, 2005 — will originate from the site of next Saturday’s matchup of No. 18 Stanford (4-1) at No. 9 Notre Dame (5-0). College GameDay, in its 26th year, will be making its eighth all-time visit to Notre Dame’s campus. The Irish are 3-4 with the GameDay crew on-campus.

The Cardinal are coming off Saturday’s home, overtime win over Arizona (54-48), and the Irish handled Miami, 41-3 at Soldier Field in Chicago.

College GameDay will air live at 9 a.m. ET on ESPNU and 10 a.m. on ESPN with host Chris Fowler, analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, and host/reporter Samantha Steele and Tom Rinaldi. continue reading…

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posted by on August 8, 2012 3:31 PM

Front & Center: Notre Dame’s
Skylar Diggins, espnW intern

ESPN Intern Skylar Diggins.
(Rich Arden/ESPN)

Click HERE to listen or visit iTunes to download the podcast and be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Front & Center podcast. Also, make sure to check out the all new ESPN Radio app, now available for the iPad.

Notre Dame’s two-time All-American guard Skylar Diggins is spending the summer before her senior year as an intern at espnW in Bristol.

In the Front & Center podcast above, she discusses her internship experience (which included this interview she conducted and produced with two Olympians), staying in shape, what she has learned during her time at ESPN and her brodcasting aspirations.

 

Skylar Diggins of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in action during the 2012 NCAA Women’s Final Four.
(Phil Ellsworth / ESPN)

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posted by on April 3, 2012 4:03 PM

Full-court press: The Experts prep for Baylor-Notre Dame NCAA title game

DENVER — ESPN’s top analysts got together to dish on all things related to tonight’s NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship title game and other top storylines surrounding the tournament.

Host Trey Wingo, along with analysts Doris Burke, Rebecca Lobo, Kara Lawson and Carolyn Peck, spent an hour talking Notre Dame, Baylor, recapping the National Semifinal games from Sunday and Pat Summitt’s future with Tennessee.

An original episode of ESPNU’s The Experts: NCAA Women’s Championship Special will air at 5 p.m. ET, prior to the College Basketball Live: Women’s Championship Special at 6 p.m., also on ESPNU.

Then switch over to ESPN or ESPN3 for the NCAA Women’s Championship Special Presented by Capital One — an hour-long preview special, also hosted by Wingo, Lawson and Peck, from the Pepsi Center at 7:30 p.m.

At 8:30 p.m. on ESPN and ESPN3, the 2012 NCAA National Championship title game will pit Baylor against 2011 national runner-up Notre Dame. Dave O’Brien will have the play-by-play call with Burke, and Lobo will work as an on-court analyst, as well as conducting on-court interviews with players and coaches, along with Holly Rowe.

In addition, ESPN will feature additional content across its platforms, including SportsCenter, espnW, ESPN.com, ESPNEWS, WatchESPN and ESPN International.

Doris Burke on Baylor’s pressure as an undefeated team continue reading…

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posted by on April 1, 2012 2:00 PM

ESPN’s photo booth captures winning pictures at Women’s Final Four

DENVER — The idea to wrap a photo booth into the NCAA Women’s Final Four motif was inspired by attending weddings, where getting your picture taken in goofy props and acting silly has become a staple at friends’ nuptials. It shows people having fun and their personalities come to the forefront.

This project is the brainchild of Tara Baker, who started at ESPN in September 2006 and is currently an associate producer working on a variety of sports from basketball to soccer to tennis to the Heisman, to name a few.

This novelty is something Baker would have loved to do with her soccer teammates at Northern Michigan, where she was a four-year letterwinner for the Division II program.

Fast-forward many years and Baker is reliving this through the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Capital One, a project she has immersed herself in along with additional ESPN staffers who were instrumental in bringing this to fruition – Kathryn Monahan, producer; Jay Fiedler, editor; Brian Girardin, creative services and Kevin Wilson and Phil Hanson from the music department.

The “photo booth” has been seen throughout the championship during the telecasts as part of ESPN’s exclusive coverage, culminating with the Final Four at the Pepsi Center . The games will air on ESPN HD, ESPN3 and on the WatchESPN app starting with the semifinals tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET (Notre Dame vs. Connecticut) and 8:30 p.m. (Baylor vs. Stanford), followed by the national title game on Tuesday, April 3, at 8:30 p.m. continue reading…

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posted by on March 30, 2012 8:00 AM

Behind the scenes of ESPN’s
NCAA women’s hoops coverage

KINGSTON, R.I. — So much goes into the production of all 63 games of the 2012 Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Capital One.

Front Row gives you an inside look into the ESPN production behind the Kingston Regional from March 25 and 27, where No. 1 seed Connecticut, No. 2 Kentucky, No. 4 Penn State and No. 11 Gonzaga contended for a Final Four berth.

ESPN’s own Dave O’Brien, Doris Burke and Holly Rowe had the call of the games and spent much time preparing for the telecasts — between player interviews, production meetings, time at practice evaluating the teams, all leading up to the Regional Semifinals.

ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Capital One has reached its peak as all four No. 1 seeds will meet at the Final Four in Denver Sunday, April 1 and Tuesday, April 3.

ESPN and ESPN3 will full studio and game coverage throughout the weekend, starting with the National Semifinals: Connecticut versus Notre Dame at 6:30 p.m. ET, followed by Stanford versus Baylor at 8:30 p.m. The championship game will air Tuesday, April 3, at 8:30 p.m.

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posted by on March 14, 2012 8:00 AM

Sport Science’s tests prove that
Notre Dame’s ‘Sky’ knows few limits

Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins has little difficulty shooting and passing with defenders draped all over her, but battling electrical monitoring devices was something entirely different.

“It was unusual and something I had to adjust to — after all, it’s not that often that you’re trying to knock down 15-foot jumpers with wires and electrodes attached to your arms and legs,” Diggins says of taping a new ESPN Sport Science piece at The Lab in Burbank, Cal.

“But once I was able to get the feel of those added pieces, it was just another part of the uniform and you just focus on doing your job to the best of your ability.”

Sport Science host John Brenkus described the tests the 2011-12 Big East Conference Player-of-the-Year underwent in dribbling (“The ball is only in contact with each of her hands for nine hundredths of a second”), running (“Her ability to maintain speed with and without the ball is on par with NBA point guard John Wall”), and shooting (“Her forearm angles are remarkably consistent from shot to shot, deviating, on average, less than five degrees”).

“We analyze footage and read scouting reports to get an overall assessment of an athlete’s particular strengths,” Brenkus says of preparing for a visiting athlete. continue reading…

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