University of Maryland men's basketball head coach Gary Williams will help out Comcast Sportsnet with its coverage of the AT&T National golf tournament next month.
Williams, an avid golfer, will join CSN reporter Chick Hernandez on the set of "Tee Time at the AT&T National," a 30-minute live show airing each night at 7:30 during the tournament beginning July 2. ...

Also yesterday, CSN announced that it will debut a new reality show based on the spring practices of the University of Maryland's football team. "Terrapins Rising" will air for ten consecutive week each Monday night beginning on June 25.

"This isn't something that's been done at the college level," coach Ralph Friedgen said. "It's really groundbreaking. We think the show will give fans better insight into how much goes on day-to-day with the players and coaches."

"Terrapins Rising" is sponsored by Under Armour and produced by Atkinson Productions, a company owned by former Terps kicker Jess Atkinson. ...

Sunday's tense final round of the U.S. Open on NBC earned a 7.0 overnight rating and a 17 share, up 37 percent from last year's tournament at Winged Foot, when Woods missed the cut. It was the best Sunday overnight rating since a 9.3/21 in 2002, when Woods won at Bethpage Black in New York. Coverage of the U.S. Open stretched late enough that it helped NBC win the prime-time ratings war as well. ...

Nike got a lot of play yesterday as Tiger Woods strutted around Oakmont in one of those pectoral-hugging stretch shirts that only people with sculpted upper bodies can wear. Something tells me that Angel Cabrera wouldn't be able to pull that off. I know I couldn't show up for a round at Bulle Rock wearing something like that. Whatever happened to clubs requiring players to wear shirts with a collar? ...

Richard Sandomir of the New York Times updates us on the brewing conflict between the Big Ten Network, set to debut this fall, and cable operators who aren't keen on putting the new channel on a basic tier. He could probably rewrite the story and replace "Big Ten Network" with "NFL Network," "The MLB Channel," "CSTV or "The Mtn." The battle between new sports networks and cable operators is like a bizarre version of the movie "Groundhog Day."