SPORTS 11 Grant: New deal with ESPN in the works Justin Boggs Sports Writer Boggs.59@wright.edu
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t last Friday’s Athletics Council meeting, Wright State Director of Athletics Bob Grant said that the Horizon League is finalizing a deal with ESPN to continue broadcasting conference men’s basketball games on the ESPN family of networks. An official announcement is expected this week. The current agreement is set to expire at the end of the season. Under the current agreement, ESPN broadcasts the league’s championship game for
in the Horizon League Tournament. Grant said the league weighed other options including Fox Sports and CBS Sports but ultimately thought ESPN was the best fit for the Horizon League. Athletes developing social media policy
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Softball field being improved
Softball head coach Lynn Curylo updated members of the Athletics Council on progress of construction
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-Bob Grant representatives of Wright State,” WSU athletics assistant and former women’s basketball player Brittany Whiteside said. Grant said that while most athletes use outlets like Twitter correctly, there have been instances where posts were not to his expectations for student-athletes. “I follow most of our athletes on Twitter, and I am sure they forget after some time that the Athletics Director is seeing what they’re posting,” Grant said. The lesson Grant wants his athletes to learn is be careful what you post. He said forums like Snapchat are opportunities for athletes to misuse social mefacebook.com/theguardianonline
backstop with new netting,” Curylo said. “It will be an awesome opportunity for our fans to see the games. And our players are excited for the new heaters in the dugout.”
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Members of the StudentAthlete Advisory Council are working with Department of Athletics administrators on developing a policy for social media usage by athletes. “We are working with them and help them understand that some things shouldn’t be posted as
“Anytime you can align yourself with ESPN, it helps the conference,” men’s basketball along with the semifinal contests and the Horizon League ‘Game of the Week’ throughout the conference regular season. “Anytime you can align yourself with ESPN, it helps the conference,” Grant said. Wright State has been a regular on the ESPN networks. By the end of the regular season, the team will have played five of its conference contests on either ESPNU or ESPN2. In addition, the men’s basketball team will have appeared on ESPN3 three times. The Raiders could potentially be back on ESPN in March depending on how deep the team goes
at WSU Softball Field. The field is undergoing some improvements before the start of the season which Curylo said fans will notice at the team’s home opener on March 22 versus Oakland. “We’re getting a new
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