Monthly Archives: September 2007

Primetime Viewing Picks

Texas A&M at Miami (FL) – ESPN, 7:30 p.m.Survivor China (season premiere) – CBS, 8 p.m.It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – FX, 10 p.m.

Thursday Afternoon Links

Ok, let’s give you some more links today. Maury Brown in the Biz of Baseball site has a story from Sports Business Daily about the rise in TV ratings for 21 MLB teams. Teams like the Brewers, Indians, Dodgers, Cubs and Mariners are seeing major increases from last year. Neil Best blogs about Mike Tirico’s […]

It's Thursday. I'm Here and it's Time for Some Links

Finished my work over at the jobsite so it’s time to provide you with some links. Over to the SOX & Dawgs site which has a petition seeking to have Glenn Geffner removed from the Red Sox Radio booth. CNBC’s Darren Rovell has a story on Dale Earnhardt, Jr. who yesterday announced his new number […]

Away from the Computer

I’ll have an update later today. I’ll be at a jobsite and away from internet access so I’ll give you links when I can.

Wednesday Night Update

As I’m watching the Red Sox collapse in the American League East, I’ll give you an update tonight. What happened to LC and the 38Cliches blog this past week has started me on a massive backup of this site. I’ve already started up a mirror site at WordPress so if I lose this, I’ll be […]

Guess Who's Back? Yes, 38Cliches is back!!!!

After six days, the 38Cliches blog is back. I received an e-mail from webmaster LC that his site went down and he’s been painstakingly trying to reconstruct it from scratch. If you go to “38Cliches.com”, you will know that the site has been taken over with a bunch of spam and banner ads. I had […]

Primetime Viewing Picks

Red Sox at Toronto – NESN, 7 p.m.Reds at Cubs – ESPN/WGN, 8 p.m.Back to You (series premiere) – Fox, 8 p.m.Gossip Girl (series premiere) – The CW, 9 p.m.Hotel Babylon – BBC America, 9 p.m.Kitchen Nightmares (series premiere) – Fox, 9 p.m.UFC Fight Night – Spike, 9 p.m.Inside the NFL – HBO, 10 p.m.

More Tuesday Stuff

Let’s do some links for you. Neil Best of Newsday blogs that former New York Giants coach Jim Fassel is not happy over comments made by current coach Tom Coughlin. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes that ESPN won the primetime cable ratings race last week thanks to Monday Night Football, Yankees-Red Sox and college […]

Wednesday Linkage

The links are here. Let’s get to them. Newsday’s Neil Best has a short review of the Boomer and Carton in the Morning show on WFAN. And he says he prefers ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reports that the NFL is investigating how Fox got hold of the Patriots’ spy tape from Week […]

Review of Real Sports, 09-18-07

Time for my real-time review of Real Sports tonight. Segment #1 – Still Alive This is about the members of an Uruguayan rugby team that survived a horrific plane crash in the Chilean Andes Mountains in 1972. How they survived is a totally amazing story. The Old Christians rugby club was flying from Uruguay to […]

Primetime Viewing Picks

Red Sox at Toronto – NESN, 7 p.m.Power of 10 – CBS, 8 p.m.Big Brother 8 (finale, thank goodness) – CBS, 9 p.m.Damages – FX, 10 p.m.Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel – HBO, 10 p.m.

Tuesday Stuff

I went to a jobsite today so I wasn’t in during the morning. Time to do some links now. Let’s look at the ratings from the weekend. First, Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the ratings for selected events. Second, Paulsen with the Sports Media Watch blog has more of an in-depth look. After […]

BREAKING NEWS: Mike Tirico and Steven A. Smith to replace Dan Patrick

ESPN has just announced that starting Thursday, Mike Tirico and Steven A. Smith will host separate shows in the timeslot that used to be Dan Patrick’s. From 1 – 3 p.m. ET, Tirico will do his show. It’s a return to ESPN Radio for Tirico as he was one of the original hosts when the […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Red Sox at Toronto – NESN, 7 p.m.Prison Break (season premiere) – Fox, 8 p.m.Monday Night Football/Washington at Philadelphia – ESPN, 8:30 p.m.K-Ville (series premiere) – Fox, 9 p.m.Saving Grace (season finale) – TNT, 10 p.m.Weeds – Showtime, 10 p.m.Californication – Showtime, 10:30 p.m.Big Brother After Dark (the last one, thankfully) – Showtime Too, midnight

Monday Afternoon Stuff

Let’s give you some links on this Monday afternoon. Starting with the Capital Times from Wisconsin, Jeff Richgels writes that DirecTV is going to add the High Definition feeds of the Big Ten Network, NFL Network and FSN Wisconsin by the end of this year. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that ESPN2 will pick up […]

Back to Work Links

Time to give you some links on this Monday morning. USA Today’s Michael McCarthy says the Cameragate story isn’t over until the media says it is. That’s true, unfortunately. Phil Mushnick in the New York Post says the lawsuit against Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden is forcing the defendants to say, “We’re really lousy […]

Videos of the Week – College Football

Well, this is college football season so why not give you some old college football opens from the various networks? It’s always fun when you get rivalry games. The networks treat them with respect and seem to work overtime on the opens. So let’s see how they’ve evolved over the years. CBS started to broadcast […]

Review of DirecTV Supercast

I was hoping to write this review last week, but as we all know, DirecTV had server problems and even though I logged into the site late, I still couldn’t access all of the features of Supercast. Now that I’m able to log in, I can write about what’s in store for the hardcore NFL […]

Saturday/Sunday Links

Yesterday, I was in New York to support Taiwan’s entry into the United Nations. Before I get into the links, let me thank the Taiwanese-American Association of New York and New Jersey for organizing the rally in Dag Hammerskold Plaza at the UN, then the New York Police Department for helping us out during our […]

NFL Picks for Week 2

Last week, I picked 13 games and I was 9-4 (picking winners only, not against the spread). I lost with the Eagles, Dolphins, Rams and Atlanta. I hope to do even better this week. Let’s get to the picks without further delay. Indianapolis at Tennessee – CBS, 1 p.m.These games between Colts and Titans have […]

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