Let’s do some links on this Tuesday.
Michael Hiestand from USA Today writes that a tepid LSU-Alabama rematch drew the BCS National Championship Game’s lowest overnight rating ever on ESPN.
Mike McCarthy of USA Today reports that former ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury has either quit or been fired from his MTV2 Lingerie Football League gig. There’s always a gray area with Sean.
Bruce Horovitz from USA Today says Kim Kardashian has been booted from Sketchers’ Super Bowl ad and replaced by a dog.
Sports Business Daily looks at the reviews of ESPN’s production of the BCS National Championship Game.
At Fox Sports, Brian Lowry feels ESPN did a better job in stepping up than LSU-Alabama last night.
Erin Carlson of the Hollywood Reporter notes that NBC will air the London Summer Olympics in 3-D.
Todd Spangler from Multichannel News reports from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that ESPN admits a lack of 3-D programming for owners of 3-D sets, but the network says that should change.
Ben Drawbaugh of Engadget was at ESPN 3D’s demonstration of the BCS National Championship Game.
Jaymar Cabebe at CNET looks at ESPN Radio now streaming live through Slacker apps.
Erin Griffith of Adweek says the popular sound recognition app Shazam will power almost a third of this year’s Super Bowl ads.
Rich Thomaselli of Advertising Age says Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow could reach the marketing and endorsement stratosphere as long as he keeps winning.
Michael Bradley at the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center says a lackluster game between LSU and Alabama should lead the BCS to change its system.
Noam Cohen of the New York Times looks at NBC going 3-D for the Olympics.
Jerry Barmash at Fishbowl NY looks at the NYC Marathon’s new deal to have WABC-TV carry the race live starting this year.
Pete Dougherty at the Albany Times Union discusses the end of Jim Rome’s tenure at ESPN.
The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg says in the DC Sports Bog that former WaPo writers Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon say they would take Minnesota’s Ricky Rubio over Washington’s John Wall right now.
David Knox of the Birmingham (AL) News says last night’s BCS National Championship Game drew a big rating locally for Alabama-LSU, but not as big as last year’s involving bitter archrival Auburn.
Doug Segrest at the News says Alabama quickly took the wind out of ESPN’s sails for a close game.
W. Scott Bailey at the San Antonio Business Journal says the Alamo Bowl on ESPN drew good numbers as compared to some of the BCS games.
Mark Dawidziak of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reports that the voice of the Browns and WKYC Sports Director Jim Donovan will co-anchor the 7 p.m. edition of the station’s newscast.
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes that local ratings for the NFL Wild Card weekend were very good.
Ed Sherman at Crain’s Chicago Business looks at a new series on Big Ten Network.
Ed says the Big Ten Conference remains steadfastly opposed to a Plus One or anything resembling a playoff in college football.
At the Salt Lake Tribune, Scott D. Pierce says NBC and ESPN have snubbed Real Salt Lake in their MLS schedules.
Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times says you can bid on the chance to have NBA Hall of Famer and TV analyst Bill Walton at your house.
At the Biz of Baseball, Maury Brown says it’s best to wait a year before expanding the MLB playoffs.
I’ll end it there for now. If anything warrants, I’ll add some more links.
UPDATE, 6 p.m.: Some more links for you now.
Chad Finn of the Boston Globe looks at the record ratings for the AFC Wild Card Playoff Game between Pittsburgh and Denver.
Newsday’s Neil Best says the NFL is seeing more monster ratings.
Ken Schott of the Schenectady Gazette notes what Time Warner Cable subscribers are missing on MSG Network in Day 10 of the two companies’ dispute with each other.
Ryan Yoder at Awful Announcing notes that ESPN Radio premieres a new show tonight.
That’s going to do it.
