Texas Rangers are featured three times on ESPN's 'Sunday Night Baseball'

Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona to be analyst for series

 
By Mel Bracht | Published: January 19, 2012    Comment on this article Leave a comment

photo - Texas Rangers CEO and President Nolan Ryan speaks to reporters during a press conference to announce the signing of Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Arlington, Texas. Japan's best pitcher and the Texas Rangers agreed before Wednesday's deadline to a $60 million, six-year contract. In addition to the salary, the Rangers will pay a posting fee of about $51.7 million to pay to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan's Pacific League. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) ORG XMIT: TXBW117
Texas Rangers CEO and President Nolan Ryan speaks to reporters during a press conference to announce the signing of Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Arlington, Texas. Japan's best pitcher and the Texas Rangers agreed before Wednesday's deadline to a $60 million, six-year contract. In addition to the salary, the Rangers will pay a posting fee of about $51.7 million to pay to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan's Pacific League. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) ORG XMIT: TXBW117

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— The OU women's team has another Saturday morning telecast when it hosts Texas at 11 a.m. on FSOK (Brenda VanLengen and Cindy Stein).

— The Jan. 14 Lakers-Clippers telecast set an NBA TV record with 756,000 total viewers. Through Tuesday, the network's game telecasts are up 68 percent in viewers, averaging 383,000 a telecast.

— Former OU star Blake Griffin will make another national TV appearance at 9:30 p.m. Friday when the L.A. Clippers host Minnesota on ESPN (Shulman, Hubie Brown and Ric Bucher). ESPN's opening game is the L.A. Lakers at Orlando at 7 p.m. (Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy and Lisa Salters).

— The Denver Nuggets will be featured on NBA TV's third season of “The Association,” a behind-the-scenes look at the team. The series debuts at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

— The NFL Network will air the 87th annual East-West Shrine Game at 3 p.m. Saturday (Paul Burmeister, Mike Mayock, Charles Davis and Rebecca Haarlow).

— Brothers Stan Van Gundy, the Magic coach, and Jeff Van Gundy, an ABC/ESPN analyst, are featured on the next edition of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” which premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday on HBO.

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