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Message: [QUOTE="kyleslamb, post: 424518, member: 895"] I agree with Omni. ESPN is desperate to keep NBC out of the game as far as competition is concerned. With the Big Ten coming up in four years, the one shot Comcast has of making NBC a fully-fledged alternative sports network to the Worldwide Leader is by landing the Big Ten's tier-1 rights. So if you're ESPN, you cannot go interfering in negotiations and do anything to endanger your chances of maintaining a rights monopoly. Comcast is planning to pay big money for the Big Ten in 2016. ESPN knows that and is planning to do everything it can to prevent that from happening. Upsetting the Big Ten in expansion is not a smart business move for them at the moment. [/QUOTE]