In Las Vegas, Steve Carp notes the Golden Knights and Lotus Broadcasting have agreed to a three-year partnership that will see all of the team's games broadcast on the Fox Sports Radio affiliates KRLV-AM and KLAV-FM. The partnership was agreed upon after "almost four months of negotiations" and includes a half-hour pregame show, a one-hour call-in postgame show and "weekly one-hour talk show." There will also be a game of the week broadcast in Spanish on KENO-AM. Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz said that the next step is to "find the broadcast teams for English and Spanish" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 4/13).
TAKE A PASS: In Virginia, Harry Minium noted ESPN and CBS Sports Network -- Conference USA's TV partners -- "both took a pass last week on televising" North Carolina-Old Dominion football on Sept. 16. That was a "stunning revelation, given UNC’s national profile and the fact that ODU is coming off a 10-win season and its first bowl victory." The UNC-ODU game will now "probably be on beIN Sports" (Norfolk VIRGINIAN-PILOT, 4/12).
MOST-VALUABLE MATCHUP: The Thunder will face the Rockets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, and in Houston, Jonathan Feigin wrote, "The NBA -- or the people who produce commercials for TNT and ESPN -- could not have scripted things better." The matchup features one of the "most hotly debated MVP race in years" with Thunder G Russell Westbrook and Rockets G James Harden (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 4/11).
HAMMER TIME: In San Jose, Mark Gomez writes media attention has "not stopped" for San Jose State after it posted a video of an assistant football coach dancing to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This." By Tuesday, the video had "'blown up,' thanks to retweets" from "SportsCenter," Bleacher Report and SI (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 4/13).
