“Three-point stance: Chow changing philosophy - ESPN.com” plus 1 more

Three-point stance: Chow changing philosophy - ESPN.com

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:01 AM PDT

1. UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow is coaching the "pistol" offense, which on the surface appears to be the biggest change in philosophy in his four decades of coaching. "I never thought myself to be too stubborn that I couldn't change," Chow said. "I think we owe it to our guys to put them in position to be successful. That's what a coach does." Chow will be a much better coach once quarterback Kevin Prince returns to practice. He's been out two weeks with a strained oblique muscle.

2. Texas Tech, Colorado, Louisville, Western Kentucky and I'll bet just about everyone else whose quarterback job is "open" will result in the guy who had the job last season keeping it this season. I get the part about forcing players to compete for jobs. But it's not quite the same as the job being open. The more experienced player gets the job. By the way, none of the above applies to Michigan's Tate Forcier.

3. Watch the return of Baylor redshirt sophomore quarterback Robert Griffin III from the torn ACL he suffered last season. When the season begins, Griffin may not have the same speed and moves he had as a runner before the injury. But as David Ubben blogged Monday, Griffin has completed 75 percent of his passes in two scrimmages. If Griffin develops into a dangerous passer in coach Art Briles' spread offense, and continues to recover his running ability, he'll be a Heisman contender in 2011.

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Comcast Outlines Program-Access Philosophy to Regulators - Multichannel Online

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:33 PM PDT

By John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 8/24/2010 3:28:13 PM

Washington -- Programming executives from Comcast met with representatives of the Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department here late last week to talk about how the operator makes its programming available on the air and online, including assuring regulators that it does not require carriage of any of its owned networks as a condition of access to any other.
Comcast reiterated that it has no plans to migrate online delivery of NBC programming to the "TV Everywhere" subscription model.

According to the MSO, Comcast Programming Group president Jeff Shell told the staffers, in answer to a question, that Comcast may discount the price of one network to expand distribution of another, but it does not condition carriage of one channel on carriage of another, saying that the cost-benefit analysis of that strategy does not add up.

On the issue of access to online programming -- which appears to be of interest to both the FCC and DOJ -- Comcast "envisioned" making online video available to competing cable, satellite and telco distributors, said Shell.

He said that to the extent that Comcast makes its or new NBCU content available online to Comcast-authenticated subs, it "intends" to make it available on reasonable terms to the authenticated customers of other distributors. Comcast's Xfinity TV model makes online versions of its programming available to those who can authenticate they are a subscriber.

Shell also reiterated that Comcast has "no intention" of changing NBC's decision to make some of its content available for free on co-owned site Hulu and "expects" that the NBC programming now available on the site will not migrate elsewhere.

The reason for the conditional language is that the company doesn't want to foreclose possibilities in a fast-moving and changing marketplace.

"Of course, while Comcast has no plans to change current practices, the dynamism of the online video sector makes it unwise to set in stone any plans with respect to putting content online in any particular fashion," Shell told his audience according to a summary of the conversation in the filing. "Comcast and the new NBCU will need to preserve the freedom to innovate and change distribution methods as business models evolve, as has occurred with Hulu even during the pendency of this transaction."

Hulu launched subscription service Hulu Plus earlier this year, which offers more content, additional HD content and more support for smart devices for a fee of $9.99 month.

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