Q: Will the SEC Network be a premium channel? Or will I have no option to decline and the cable company will add it to my current lineup and increase the cost of my cable bill (Comcast is my carrier)? I, and I’m sure many others, do not want the SEC Network.
—David A. Manecke, Mableton
A: Comcast is one of several cable and satellite providers that haven't agreed on a deal with ESPN, which owns the SEC Network. Comcast, Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are among the other companies that haven't agreed to televise the new network. A Comcast spokesman told FoxSports.com in May: "We are currently engaged in good faith negotiations with ESPN on carriage of the SEC Network and are optimistic we will reach an agreement with them."
Dish Network and AT&T U-verse, among others, have reached deals to provide the SEC Network, according to the Associated Press. “The next 75 days are focused on continuing to try to have productive conversations across the board and get as many distributors aboard as we can,” Justin Connolly, ESPN senior vice president for college networks programming, told reporters late last week.
Q: There are triangles on the sleeves of all MLB uniforms, except the New York Yankees. What are those triangles and why don’t the Yankees have them?
—Marvin Hand, Stockbridge
A: MLB uniforms are supplied by Majestic, which displays its logo – it looks like a triangle but it's an abstract "M" — on the left sleeve of every team except the Yankees. They choose not to wear the supplier's logo on their sleeves. Majestic has supplied MLB uniforms since 2005.
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