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Et cetera Gary Williams takes job with ESPN 980 Former Maryland men's basketball coach Gary Williams , who works as an analyst for the Big Ten Network, will join ESPN 980, a Washington-based sports radio station, as its "college hoops insider. " Williams will appear weekly on "The Sports Fix" with Kevin Sheehan and Thom Loverro , and on "The Sports Reporters" with Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban . Williams will be on the station through April 3. More men's college basketball: Johns Hopkins junior guard Adam Spengler was named PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week.

ESPN analyst Paul Carcaterra was the sideline reporter for unseeded Maryland's 11-5 stunner against No. 2 seed Johns Hopkins on Saturday. On Monday, he offered what he liked and what he didn't like in the Terps' victory in the NCAA tournament's quarterfinal round. Wednesday feature Carcaterra's assessment of No. 1 seed Loyola's 10-9 decision against unseeded Denver, but here is what he thought of Maryland's win. What Carcaterra liked: “I liked the way that they really initiated the offense from the midfield - not only from up top, but also from behind.

Anatomy of a Trade (Story): These days the best trades are those ESPN makes up, like its one-day Carmelo Anthony-Andrew Bynum blockbuster with as much basis in fact as Bigfoot. Here's what happened: Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak asked Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri what they want for 'Melo. In the NBA version of "Mission: Impossible's" self-destructing messages, both GMs say the other called him, standard practice since the invention of the telephone.

ESPN tries to take lacrosse fans behind the scenes during its coverage, but hopefully this weekend the network keeps the microphones out of team huddles during the final four in Foxboro, Mass. In may ways, ESPN is giving us more than we really want. Last weekend, you heard a lot of foul language from coaches and some players because those microphones were open. A lot of times, coaches forget they're being recorded on live TV, and it can result in some embarassing moments. Some of the strong words that came from the coaches I disapprove off, but I also know that emotions run deep among players, coaches and officials.

ESPN tries to take lacrosse fans behind the scenes during its coverage, but hopefully this weekend the network keeps the microphones out of team huddles during the final four in Foxboro, Mass. In may ways, ESPN is giving us more than we really want. Last weekend, you heard a lot of foul language from coaches and some players because those microphones were open. A lot of times, coaches forget they're being recorded on live TV, and it can result in some embarassing moments. Some of the strong words that came from the coaches I disapprove off, but I also know that emotions run deep among players, coaches and officials.

Due to a scheduling change, ESPN's feature on Boys' Latin's top-ranked lacrosse team, originally slated for yesterday at 3:30 p.m. on Scholastic Sports America, will be broadcast today at 1 p.m., an ESPN spokesman said.

The Corporate Sports Battle National Finals, which took place Nov. 28 in Boca Raton, Fla., and included former Andover graduate Kurt Pilgrim, will air on the ESPN cable television network at 10:30 a.m. next Tuesday.Pilgrim, 29, was instrumental in Westinghouse's victory in the basketball competition, sinking a 45-footer at the buzzer.Overall, Westinghouse finished sixth out of 18 corporate teams from across the country.

Just a couple of months after ESPN first signed on the air Sept. 7, 1979, from a piecemeal studio in wooded Bristol, Conn., Chris Berman got nervous.Heavy rain had come to the area, turning the parking lot into a quagmire. The time to begin planning the overnight "SportsCenter" was rapidly approaching, but the producer, a heavy-set fellow named Fred, was nowhere to be found."It was raining cats and dogs, and no one knew what was going on," said Berman, the anchor. "Finally, about 9:30 or 10, we went outside and looked around, and we found that Fred had sunk waist-deep in the mud."

Time to share a few thoughts after losing count of how many times Billy Packer called Florida's players "long" during CBS' Final Four telecasts: ESPN's Bonds on Bonds, in its first episode, ended up being as sympathetic toward embattled slugger Barry Bonds as one would expect of a production controlled by him. ESPN shouldn't be giving Bonds a forum nor have a business relationship with him for this show, and many inside the network apparently feel the...

They made him wear funny shirts and leather jackets. They sat him next to a guy who smacks a hammer on the desk. They put him on a network whose programming staple is snowboarders sliding to heavy-metal music.All of this apparently drove Keith Olbermann to shave off his mustache.But soon his nightmare will be over. Olbermann will leave ESPN2 and return to ESPN on April 3, it was announced this week.Olbermann will rejoin Dan Patrick to re-form ESPN's best "SportsCenter" anchor team, and they will be hosts of an expanded "SportsCenter."

As part of ESPN's coverage of the NCAA tournament's quarterfinal round this past weekend, Paul Carcaterra was the sideline reporter for all four contests. The former Syracuse All-American midfielder, who can be followed on Twitter via @paulcarcaterra, provided his thoughts on the most stunning result in the quarterfinals, the hottest team in the Final Four and the race for the Tewaaraton Award. Which was more exciting: the first round or the quarterfinal round? I thought both rounds wre entertaining and provided fans with different styles in lacrosse.

An ESPN analyst can only be in so many places in a limited time. But while Mark Dixon wasn't on hand to see Maryland's 10-9 upset of No. 7 seed Lehigh in the NCAA tournament on Sunday night, he did watch the game on television with great interest. On Monday, he offered what he liked and what he didn't like in the Terps' victory in the opening round. Tuesday featured Dixon's assessment of No. 1 seed Loyola's 17-5 thrashing of Canisius, and Wednesday profiled his evaluation of No. 2 seed Johns Hopkins' 19-9 rout of Stony Brook.

ESPN's Jeannine Edwards started her TV career as an in-track host at Pimlico and Laurel in the early 1990s. “It allowed me to learn television, because I came from a background of  training horses and had no TV experience,” she says. “So I owe a lot of my success and a debt of gratitude to the people in Maryland for giving me a start.” Edwards, who still calls Maryland home, is covering the Preakness for ESPN and ABC this week. Her reports will start appearing Friday on the sports channel and continue through the weekend.

ESPN analyst Quint Kessenich was in the network's studio in Charlotte, N.C., where he helped provide coverage of the 16-team field in the NCAA tournament Sunday night. In the second part of a Q&A, the former Johns Hopkins All-American goalkeeper, who can be followed on Twitter via @QKessenich, shared his thoughts on the value of being the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the tournament, the most intriguing first-round contest, and one seeded team that may have the easiest path to the Final Four.

The calm of the Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of San Diego, where the America's Cup defender and challenger finals series are taking place, belies a swirling controversy.It seems the qualifying rules for the defender series, which involves three American yachts vying for the right to face the defender winner for the America's Cup, were changed at the last minute, a fact that doesn't sit well with Gary Jobson, ESPN's sailing analyst."Were the rules changed at the last minute? You bet. Should they have been changed?

If you happen to see Roger Cossack at an Orioles game, you could ask him - between innings might be best - whether the prosecution is likely to convict anyone in the Duke lacrosse team rape case. He really couldn't tell you. The ESPN legal analyst - who lives in Georgetown and does attend the occasional Orioles game - isn't one to jump to a lot of conclusions. "I think you see a lot of pouting divas who take the prosecution's position," Cossack said Wednesday. "I've been asked if the prosecution has a good case in the Duke case.