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Welcome again to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our paying subscribers; you can join them here. Let's get to the news. The Athletic strikes strategic partnership with EA Sports When thinking about ways to get sports content in front of readers, a video game company doesn't necessarily come to mind. But the wide-ranging strategic partnership The Athletic announced with EA Sports Tuesday is fascinating on several fronts, including for how much of it revolves...

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Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media, covering everything on the media and sports business side of sports. This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. Today, we're talking about the college football landscape. Hurricanes making splash amidst Big Two dominance College football conferences have never really been equal. One illustration of that is the longstanding divide between the Power Five (now Power Four after the downfall of the old Pac-12) and the rest of the FBS...

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Welcome again to Bucholtz Sports Media. You can sign up for a premium subscription here, or sign up to get all free posts via email here. On to the news... FloRugby implements altcasts There's a lot of interesting history with "alternate broadcasts," which date back well beyond the 2021 launch of Peyton and Eli Manning's Monday Night Football Manningcast. A few examples there, largely from ESPN, include a 1994 CART race, a 2006 UNC-Duke game (the debut of the "ESPN Full Circle" brand, an...

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