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• Robbie Tolan Faces Long Recovery After Police Shooting
• By Michael David Smith 2/16/2009 10:00 AM ET
• At 2 a.m. on December 31, a 23-year-old minor league baseball player named Robbie Tolan was driving to the home he lives in with his parents after going out to eat with his cousin. Even though Tolan ... More »
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• NFL Network Hires Bob Papa to Replace Bryant Gumbel
• By Michael David Smith 6/25/2008 3:37 PM ET
• Neil Best of Newday is reporting that NFL Network has hired Bob Papa to handle play-by-play on its slate of eight regular-season games, replacing Bryant Gumbel as the top in-game broadcaster on the ...
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• NFL Network to Hire Al Michaels?
• By Michael David Smith 5/01/2008 5:18 PM ET
• Now that NFL Network is done with the two-year experiment of Bryant Gumbel as play-by-play man, where will the league's official cable channel turn? Neil Best of Newsday reports that the NFL could be ...
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• Madden '09 Announcers: Tom Hammond and Cris Collinsworth
• By Sportz Assassin 4/25/2008 1:21 PM ET
• We found out yesterday that Brett Favre will be the face of Madden '09. Today, courtesy of Awful Announcing, we find out whose voices we will hear doing the broadcast on the game. Madden NFL 09 will ...
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• Bryant Gumbel in 1980: I'm Not a Whiz at Play-by-Play ... I Don't Like My Voice
• By Michael David Smith 4/14/2008 12:30 PM ET
• There were two basic complaints about Bryant Gumbel, the recently departed play-by-play voice at NFL Network, and both of them are addressed in this post at the New York Times' Fifth Down blog. The ...
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• Marv Albert Should Replace Bryant Gumbel as NFL Network Play-by-Play Announcer
• By Michael David Smith 4/14/2008 6:49 AM ET
• Now that Bryant Gumbel has stepped aside as the play-by-play man on the live regular-season games broadcast by NFL Network, the big question in sports broadcasting is who will replace him. The answer ...
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• NFL Network Exec Declines to Say if He Asked Bryant Gumbel to Leave
• By Ryan Wilson 4/12/2008 10:43 AM ET
• So far, so good: we're one day into the life without Bryant Gumbel and NFL Network is still standing. Yesterday, FanHouse's Michael David Smith pointed out that the network released a statement ...
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• Bryant Gumbel Leaves NFL Network
• By Michael David Smith 4/11/2008 4:32 PM ET
• Bryant Gumbel is leaving his position as the play-by-play voice of live games on NFL Network, it was announced today. Both parties said it was Gumbel's decision to step aside. Gumbel released the ...
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• Officials Not Doing the Panthers Any Favors
• By Sportz Assassin 12/22/2007 11:22 PM ET
• The lead story of Saturday night's Dallas Cowboys win over the Carolina Panthers will be the status of Terrell Owens' injury. However, many will talk about the tough calls against the Panthers during ... More »
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• Bryant Gumbel Calls Tony Romo 'Rick Romo'
• By Michael David Smith 12/22/2007 6:32 PM ET
• I don't dislike NFL Network play-by-play man Bryant Gumbel the way a lot of folks in the sports blogosphere do, but I must admit, this is a huge mistake: That was after the Cowboys beat the Packers ...
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• Bryant Gumbel on NFL Network Play-by-Play: 'I Really Didn't Do It Very Well'
• By Michael David Smith 11/07/2007 2:39 PM ET
• Until NFL Network hired him last year, Bryant Gumbel had never done play-by-play in any sport, at any level. He had serious credentials as a broadcaster and journalist, but that didn't prevent ...
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• Bryant Gumbel Calls Gene Upshaw 'The League's Biggest Embarrassment'
• By Michael David Smith 6/20/2007 10:58 PM ET
• Bryant Gumbel is at it again. For the second time, Gumbel has used the HBO show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel to attack Gene Upshaw, the head of the NFL players' union. On the edition of Real Sports ... More »
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• Bryant Gumbel Continues to Rip NFL, Union
• By Michael David Smith 1/24/2007 11:29 AM ET
• The latest edition of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, the great HBO show that documents the world of sports with a serious journalistic bent, includes a piece bashing the NFL and its players' union ...
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