Legendary Duke Head Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski will host ?Basketball and Beyond with Coach K,? on XM Satellite Radio.

?Basketball and Beyond with Coach K? will offer a mix of topical issues, such as the state of college basketball; interviews with special guests, and Krzyzewski?s personal perspective for life on and off the court.

Coach K and his co-host, sportscaster Dave Sims, will launch the XM Radio program on October 12th. The hour-long program will air Wednesdays at 4:00 pm ET on XM?s college sports channels 191 through 199, with encore broadcasts on various channels during the week.

Eric Logan, EVP of Programming at XM was quoted as saying, ?College basketball will be an integral part of Coach K?s show…” — thanks Eric! :)

XM Satellite Radio just announced they’ll offer play-by-play coverage of every game for home and visiting teams’ broadcasts of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), National League Championship Series (NLCS), and the 2005 World Series.

In addition to the game broadcasts, MLB Home Plate (XM Channel 175) will offer thorough coverage of the 2005 Pennant Races, Division Series, League Championship Series, and of course the World Series including the latest team news, game updates, interviews, highlights and more.

XM’s MLB en Espanol (XM Channel 190) will provide Spanish language coverage of the 2005 League Championship Series and World Series with national feeds from ESPN Deportes Radio.

A complete listing of MLB play-by-play channels (XM Channels 176-189) for the 2005 MLB post-season will be available soon on XM Satellite Radio’s website.

The glove has been thrown. Think the programming wars are over? Think again. XM Satellite Radio today announced a 10-year, $100 million dollar, exclusive, agreement with the NHL. XM will begin broadcasting NHL games in the 2005-2006 season, and in 2007 (when NASCAR jumps to Sirius) XM will be the National Hockey League’s exclusive satellite radio provider. Touche!

XM will provide live play-by-play broadcasts of every game from every team (covering over 1,000 games per season), as well as the NHL All-Star Game, the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Stanley Cup Final. XM Satellite Radio will also produce a dedicated NHL radio channel featuring pretty everything about the sport (think MLB Homeplate for hockey). And of course, Canucks can rest assured that this will all be covered on CSR (ya hosers).

All this is set to debut on Opening Night, on October 5th.