blackout

A massive power failure that led to chaos

The Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers report that their weekend wild-card playoff games are sellouts. Normally, teams must sell out 72 hours before kickoff to have a game broadcast in their local market. The NFL gave the Colts, Bengals and Packers an extra day to do it...

If you watched the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, and most Americans did, this spoof will have you cracking up.

The New York Giants may be the Super Bowl Champions, they may be leading their division and they may have a superstar quarterback, but that simply isn't enough for the fans of Cincinnati. Due to the Bengals inability to sell out Sunday's home game against the Giants, the NFL has announced that the game will be blacked out in that area.

For two years Time Warner Cable and Madison Square Garden have been unsuccessfully negotiating against a ticking clock, a clock which officially runs out when the ball drops on the new year.  If the two media conglomerates can't come together by then, much of the Capital Region will lose MSG and MSG+.

The New York Rangers will finally open the partially renovated Madison Square Garden tonight, but chances are you won't get to see it.  Despite the existence of what seems like a substantial Ranger fandom in the Capital Region, Ranger games, including tonight's home opener (according to the Times Union), are routinely blacked out.  So unless you're lucky enough to have NHL Center Ice, and the mone