TV Sports: With a Holler, Homers Make N.C.A.A. Broadcasts Fun

Alternative broadcasts of N.C.A.A. tournament games feature hometown announcers with a brash but entertaining subjectivity.

CBS Will Broadcast Thursday Night Games

The one-year deal was believed to be worth at least $250 million to the N.F.L., which wants Thursday games to someday approach the viewership of Sunday and Monday games.

    



Ken Venturi, Golf Champion and Broadcaster, Dies at 82

Mr. Venturi won the 1964 United States Open, nearly collapsing from heat exhaustion. He later became a chief golf analyst for CBS Sports, where he worked for 35 years.

    

N.C.A.A. Tournament Final Four Men’s Semifinals Moving to TBS

CBS will continue to carry the championship game in 2014 and 2015, and the two networks will also start splitting Round of 8 games in 2014, rather than in 2016.

    

Eddie Einhorn Seized on Broadcasting College Basketball Games in 1960

Long before office pools and hours of television coverage, Eddie Einhorn thought college basketball might have a future as a national sport. So he founded a TV network.

Sports Briefing | Television Sports: Turner May Broadcast 2014 Men’s Final Four

Turner Sports, CBS’s partner in carrying the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, could carry the Final Four and national championship game in 2014, instead of 2016 as originally envisioned.