SOME OF THE most unforgettable images from Life magazine are now available on the Internet for free from Google.
SOME OF THE most unforgettable images from Life magazine are now available on the Internet for free from Google.
This group of images, most of which have never been seen before, is a treasure trove for sports fans.
The Crowley Company in Frederick, Md., played a big role in this two-year process to digitize nearly 10 million images from the Life Magazine archives. Seven million images have been digitized at a rate of about 14,000 per day. This group includes not only the pictures that were used by Life, but all the pictures taken by some of the world's best photographers in relation to their assignments.
To begin searching the archive, go to http://images.google.com/hosted/life.
There are great images from baseball, football and basketball, but for more local flavor, search "Art Lewis" and all of the images Life snapped of the former WVU football coach (for a story in August, 1955) appear. Included are images of Lewis on two recruiting trips, with Dick Rodesky and his father and an in-house visit with Jim Hillen and his family. Lewis is seen on the bench at the 1955 North-South All-Star Game in Charleston and in the victorious locker room after the game. But perhaps the most interesting images feature Lewis running WVU preseason workouts at Jackson's Mill in Lewis County, a practice that ended with the hiring of Jim Carlen in 1966.
The original Life story on Pappy Lewis will be reprinted as part of a new history of Mountaineer football by Whitman Publishing, set for release next spring.
Channel surfing
The National Association of Broadcasters is unhappy with ESPN's move to take the rights to the BCS, thus moving the biggest college football games off broadcast television to cable. The NAB voted early last week to adopt a resolution noting that "Broadcasters continue to support the rights of all Americans to have free access to telecasts of major sporting events, particularly those of publicly funded educational institutions."
Duly noted. But if President-elect Barack Obama has already been rebuffed in his effort to force major college football into a true playoff, what chance does the NAB have in returning the big bowl games to free TV?
n Television networks have locked up the rights to future college sports events with huge contracts in recent months. ESPN is taking the BCS bowl games away from Fox Sports from 2011 to 2014 for $500 million ($125 million per year). That move came on the heels of the SEC getting big raises from CBS and ESPN in August. The SEC will earn an average of $55 million annually from its new 15-year-deal with CBS, which kicks in next year. Just days after that agreement was announced, ESPN locked up virtually everything else in the SEC for the next 15 years for $2.25 billion. Thanks to these mega-deals, each SEC school will be able to count on $15 million in TV revenues annually for the next 15 years (up from 5.3 million this year) before selling a single ticket, game program or soft drink.
Some of these moves are now impacting other conferences. ESPN's new contract with the Southeastern Conference includes shifting the finals of the SEC basketball tournament to ABC beginning in 2010. So early last week, the Atlantic Ten cut a multi-year deal with CBS to take that Selection Sunday slot (1 p.m.) for its tournament championship game beginning in 2010. This is a marriage of convenience for both parties. CBS inherited the majority of television rights for the A-10 when it bought CSTV and re-branded the channel as CBS College Sports.
ABC comes out looking like a winner in this deal too, considering the last three SEC tourney championship games have featured Florida clinching an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament before starting their run to back-to-back national championships. Last season's improbable run by Georgia to the SEC tourney title, which included winning two games in one day at Georgia Tech after a tornado threatened the Georgia Dome, was the most compelling story of all of the conference tournaments.
Pittsburgh Steelers' fans take note; CBS has shifted a pair of starting times for games in NFL Week 15. The starting time of the Steelers' game at Baltimore Dec. 14 has been pushed back from 1 to 4:15 p.m. - likewise for Denver at Carolina.
Reach Dave Weekley at Week...@Yahoo.com.
SOME OF THE most unforgettable images from Life magazine are now available on the Internet for free from Google.
This group of images, most of which have never been seen before, is a treasure trove for sports fans.
The Crowley Company in Frederick, Md., played a big role in this two-year process to digitize nearly 10 million images from the Life Magazine archives. Seven million images have been digitized at a rate of about 14,000 per day. This group includes not only the pictures that were used by Life, but all the pictures taken by some of the world's best photographers in relation to their assignments.
To begin searching the archive, go to http://images.google.com/hosted/life.
There are great images from baseball, football and basketball, but for more local flavor, search "Art Lewis" and all of the images Life snapped of the former WVU football coach (for a story in August, 1955) appear. Included are images of Lewis on two recruiting trips, with Dick Rodesky and his father and an in-house visit with Jim Hillen and his family. Lewis is seen on the bench at the 1955 North-South All-Star Game in Charleston and in the victorious locker room after the game. But perhaps the most interesting images feature Lewis running WVU preseason workouts at Jackson's Mill in Lewis County, a practice that ended with the hiring of Jim Carlen in 1966.
The original Life story on Pappy Lewis will be reprinted as part of a new history of Mountaineer football by Whitman Publishing, set for release next spring.
Channel surfing
The National Association of Broadcasters is unhappy with ESPN's move to take the rights to the BCS, thus moving the biggest college football games off broadcast television to cable. The NAB voted early last week to adopt a resolution noting that "Broadcasters continue to support the rights of all Americans to have free access to telecasts of major sporting events, particularly those of publicly funded educational institutions."
Duly noted. But if President-elect Barack Obama has already been rebuffed in his effort to force major college football into a true playoff, what chance does the NAB have in returning the big bowl games to free TV?
n Television networks have locked up the rights to future college sports events with huge contracts in recent months. ESPN is taking the BCS bowl games away from Fox Sports from 2011 to 2014 for $500 million ($125 million per year). That move came on the heels of the SEC getting big raises from CBS and ESPN in August. The SEC will earn an average of $55 million annually from its new 15-year-deal with CBS, which kicks in next year. Just days after that agreement was announced, ESPN locked up virtually everything else in the SEC for the next 15 years for $2.25 billion. Thanks to these mega-deals, each SEC school will be able to count on $15 million in TV revenues annually for the next 15 years (up from 5.3 million this year) before selling a single ticket, game program or soft drink.
Some of these moves are now impacting other conferences. ESPN's new contract with the Southeastern Conference includes shifting the finals of the SEC basketball tournament to ABC beginning in 2010. So early last week, the Atlantic Ten cut a multi-year deal with CBS to take that Selection Sunday slot (1 p.m.) for its tournament championship game beginning in 2010. This is a marriage of convenience for both parties. CBS inherited the majority of television rights for the A-10 when it bought CSTV and re-branded the channel as CBS College Sports.
ABC comes out looking like a winner in this deal too, considering the last three SEC tourney championship games have featured Florida clinching an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament before starting their run to back-to-back national championships. Last season's improbable run by Georgia to the SEC tourney title, which included winning two games in one day at Georgia Tech after a tornado threatened the Georgia Dome, was the most compelling story of all of the conference tournaments.
Pittsburgh Steelers' fans take note; CBS has shifted a pair of starting times for games in NFL Week 15. The starting time of the Steelers' game at Baltimore Dec. 14 has been pushed back from 1 to 4:15 p.m. - likewise for Denver at Carolina.
Reach Dave Weekley at Week...@Yahoo.com.
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