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… Chris Myers, on Fox's NASCAR prerace coverage Saturday, to Fox NFL analyst Michael Strahan who was in for a cameo: "You look so fit you could go back out on the field and jump offsides all the time."

ESPN hires ex-Lions boss Millen as football analyst 2009

Calvin Borel, after tearing up during the prerace My Old Kentucky Home and calling Brothers "sweetie" in his saddled-up interview after the race, gave NBC with a nice promo for its upcoming Preakness by predicting he'd ride Super Saver to the Triple Crown.

Kentucky Derby show has winners across board 2010

The 52nd running of the Daytona 500 ran the usual gamut of celebrities (Harry Connick Jr. sang the national anthem after country favorite Tim McGraw performed a prerace concert for thousands gathered on the frontstretch grass) and politicians (attendees Sunday included Sarah Palin and, Republican national chairman Michael Steele).

McMurray hangs on to win pothole-marred Daytona 500 2010

Fox's NASCAR coverage, starting with Sunday's Daytona 500, will include the debut of a prerace show weather segment featuring Rick Dickert, a weatherman on Fox's Los Angeles affiliate.

NBC has familiar and new faces at Vancouver Games 2010

Other cartoon gophers — such as Digger gal pal Annie, named for Hill's real-life daughter, and nemesis Lumpy Wheels — will pop up in vignettes this season, mainly on prerace shows but also possibly during races, Hill says.

Fox's cartoon gopher Digger goes after dollars for NASCAR 2009

She was a heavy prerace favorite, as the 2009 world champion in slalom — when she left Zahrobska with silver — and current leader in the season-long World Cup discipline standings.

Germany's Maria Riesch wins women's slalom, second gold 2010

TNT, says spokesman Jeff Pomeroy, will formally announce today both a new lead race announcer and a new prerace show host for its six-race NASCAR Sprint Cup series coverage, which begins June 6.

Sports television scene changing with new faces, shows and roles 2010

Jimmie Johnson, who's won NASCAR's Sprint Cup series the past four years, was asked on Fox's Kobalt Tools 500 prerace coverage Sunday about the perception he doesn't have a rival: I've heard that and it's just wrong.

Time for bracketologist Joe Lunardi to get plenty of ESPN airtime 2010

In a breakthrough of sorts for female announcers, Lindsay Czarniak will this season host TNT's prerace and postrace shows.

Sports television scene changing with new faces, shows and roles 2010

The value of prerace veterinary examinations was underscored when a state veterinarian discovered The Pamplemousse was not fit to run before the Santa Anita Derby in Arcadia, Calif., on April 4.

Horse industry works on more humane touch, increased safety 2009