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HD in focus

Some tidbits that didn't fit into today's column:

Comcast SportsNet has used the occasion of MASN’s baseball HD announcement of 80 combined Orioles and Nationals games to remind everyone it has been doing high definition for five
years and point out that the network carries more than 200 events per year in HD.
So we know who is more def. As opposed to Mos Def.

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In an ESPN news release announcing his addition to the network's college basketball coverage, Bob Knight said: “I think ESPN has been real good for college basketball, and I look
forward to working with some of their people who I have known a long time.”
Presumably, some of ESPN’s people he’ll be working with won’t include Jeremy Schaap, who had an interview with Knight in 2000 that included the coach’s telling him: “You’ve got a long way to go to be as good as your dad [the late sports journalist Dick Schaap]. You better keep that in mind.”

Posted by Ray Frager at 8:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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Comcast SportsNet has been doing HD for 5 years but only if you're lucky enough (or is the unfortunate enough) to be a Comcast subscriber. Down here in NOVA on Cox there is no Comcast HD. I expect there to be a MASN HD here, however.

Posted by: Jon | February 29, 2008 9:26 AM

Man, I can't wait until all of television is in HD so that Comcast and DirectTV can stop this really freaking annoying HD war.

Posted by: Matthew | March 1, 2008 10:25 AM

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About Ray Frager

Ray Frager joined The Baltimore Sun’s sports department in 1985 and has been an assistant sports editor for more than 15 years. This is his second stint writing a sports media column for The Baltimore Sun. Most sequels aren't as good as the original, but then, the original wasn't all that great either.

Frager, born in 1957, grew up in northern Delaware (graduating from a high school that since has shut down) and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Rider College in Lawrenceville, N.J. He worked as a reporter and copy editor at The Trenton Times and The Dallas Morning News before coming to Baltimore.

Surprisingly, if you look at his accompanying photo, Frager is married and has a son and daughter. He enjoys playing basketball and has organized pickup games among members of The Baltimore Sun staff for many years, which means they don't get too mad at him for shooting way too much.

He has a good beat and is easy to dance to. I'd give him an 85.