Big Ten blitz for Comcast; MASN combines crews for O's-Nats

Comcast deal with league's network to create access to Penn St. football Spilling out the weekly sports media notes, then quickly trying to sop them up before they permanently stain the carpet: • If you are ... Penn State, good news: Comcast's recent deal with the Big Ten Network means you can catch the Nittany Lions and the other conference programming on your cable system starting with the football season. Comcast said the Big Ten Network will be available to Baltimore-area customers starting in mid-August as part of the Sports and Entertainment package, a digital-level extra that includes the NFL Network. • As it did for the previous Orioles-Washington Nationals series, MASN will combine its announcing teams during game telecasts tonight through Sunday. Orioles analyst Buck Martinez teams with the Nats' Don Sutton , and... [read full story]