MLB.com Keeping Phillies Fans' "USA" Clip

MLB.com will not pull a YouTube clip from last night's ESPN broadcast of the Mets-Phillies game, when fans at Citizens Bank Park learned of the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and began chanting "USA." MLB.com for years has had a policy of keeping game highlight clips only on its site an ...

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MLBAM Issues Credits To MLB.TV Subs

MLBAM has issued a $5 credit to MLB.TV subscribers who also are PlayStation Network subs due to the ongoing outage of the network supporting Sony's gaming console. Since last year, MLB.TV subscribers have been able to access live MLB games through the PlayStation 3. But the PlayStation Net ...

NESN Signs With TruMedia For Heat Maps

NESN has struck a short-term trial deal with TruMedia Networks to test the Massachusetts-based company's player-by-player heat maps, based on advanced statistical analytics, during game broadcasts. The RSN is exploring how best to deploy the technology, and is also searching for a presenting co ...

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Fans Choose Hillis For "Madden" Cover

Browns RB Peyton Hillis yesterday completed his shocking run through EA Sports' "Madden NFL 12" fan vote bracket for the game cover, routing Eagles QB Michael Vick in the final with a vote margin of 66% to 34%. The selection was announced live on ESPN2's "SportsNation." Hillis today will condu ...

NFL '11 App Already Over 140,000 Downloads

The NFL has generated more than 140,000 downloads of its new iPad application, "NFL '11," since its release last week, and the product last night ranked third among all free iPad apps on iTunes. The app, the league's first tablet-optimized product with live video, represents a key portion of an over ...

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McCourt To Meet With MLB Execs

Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt is scheduled to meet today with MLB execs in N.Y. as he seeks to get further clarity on the league's takeover last week of club business operations, Monday's appointment of Tom Schieffer as club monitor, and Commissioner Bud Selig 's refusal to approve a pending medi ...

MLB Names Scieffer To Oversee Dodgers

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig today named former Rangers President Tom Schieffer as his monitor and trustee of the Dodgers, whose day-to-day and business operations were taken over by the league last week. Schieffer ran the Rangers from '91-99, was the club's General Partner from '94-98 and led the ...

FanSnap Adds E-Tickets Component

Secondary ticket metasearch engine FanSnap has added an e-tickets component to identify ticket listings that are fulfilled strictly through e-mail and bar codes, as opposed to courier service. The aim is to more readily identify e-tickets and enable more last-minute purchasing of tickets. ...

More Than 40,000 Tickets Sold For MLB ASG

The D'Backs and MLB have sold more than 40,000 tickets thus far for the '11 MLB All-Star Game, and more than 34,000 each for the Home Run Derby and Futures Game that precede the July 12 event. The club and MLB lowered ticket prices as much as 59% for All-Star Game events this summer and began s ...

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MLB, MLBPA Expand Pension Program

MLB and the MLBPA this afternoon announced they will begin making payments to former players from '47-80 with more limited service time that did not qualify for the league's normal pension benefit plan. Prior to '80, only players with at least four years of service time qualified for a pensi ...