After signing a four-year, $720 million deal with the NFL to stream games to mobile phones, Verizon Wireless is now looking to extend its relationship to include tablets. “The NFL will be on a tablet,” said Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s SVP of media strategy told the WSJ. “It’s a question…

The National Hockey League is looking to a programming vet from the National Football League to pull its content strategy together and execute it across all platforms. Charles Coplin is joining the NHL as EVP-content, a new position that reports to COO John Collins. Coplin’s responsibilities include NHL.com; NHL Network;…

Verizon Wireless has launched its first wave of NFL Mobile applications, including live streaming of Sunday and Thursday night games, for subscribers today as the official sponsor of the NFL. If you are a Verizon subscriber and interested at all in the NFL, you should download the application before the…

Every so often, we run up against a harsh reminder that not all iTunes stores are created equal. Rights issues—as in carriers other than AT&T (NYSE: T) have exclusive rights—will keep North American hockey fans from access to NHL Ice *Time* 2010, a new freemium iPhone app (slide show) being…

The NFL has signed a new four-year deal with Verizon Wireless, putting an end to a roughly five-year partnership with Sprint (NYSE: S). The deal is valued at $720 million, including a rights fee and advertising spending, according to the WSJ, which quotes people familiar with the negotiations. NFL fans…

Already facing a larger-than-usual number of local TV blackouts, the National Football League is offering fans in those markets an option play: delayed full-game videos for free starting at midnight the day of a game and running for 72 hours. The blackout rule applies when teams fail to sell out…

Add the National Football League to the list of sports orgs laying out specific guidelines for social media. The NFL sent a memo detaining its policy to clubs Monday afternoon and released a statement (published below) focusing on Game Day rules. Key points: —“The use of social media by NFL…

NBC (NYSE: GE) Sports and the NFL have another one-year deal to live stream the network’s coverage of Sunday Night Football on their respective sites, NBCSports.com and NFL.com. The digital package, which is technically separate from the two-year extension for broadcast rights announced Wednesday, kicks off on a Thursday, Sept.10,…

While many news outlets pull back on sports coverage, CBSSports.com is trying to blitz its way into some local love by embedding a reporter with each NFL team. Each of the 32 correspondents is fully credentialed and will cover his or her respective team from training camp through the season—exclusively…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has the rights to two of the next five Super Bowls but the network that offers up every minute of March Madness live online has some decisions to make about how to handle that other iconic sporting event. Oh, and the NFL still holds the streaming rights.…

For football fans for whom the ability to watch every NFL game on TV on Sundays isn’t enough, help is on the way. As part of a new four-year, $4 billion deal struck between DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) and the NFL last night, they will now also have the option of…

And we thought the fantasy sports kerfuffle has died out after the fantasy leagues won against MLB earlier this year. But no, now CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), which also looks after CBSSports.com, has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis against NFL Players Association to clarify who can use these stats…

No independent confirmation of this yet, but WSJ is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is negotiating with the National Football League to take control of the NFL Network. That such a deal is even being contemplated—let alone negotiated at the high levels reported by the Journal —suggests a major change…

Place-shifting TV provider Sling Media has tied up with DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) to give the satellite company’s users (not SlingBox users) access to National Football League games, NTV reported. Online streams of NFL games will be available every Sunday…this is DirecTV’s Supercast streaming service, and is available to Directv NFL…