A couple of news items for you today.
Embattled Boston Globe writer Ron Borges appeared on the Michael Felger show on ESPN Radio in Boston today. Bruce Allen of Boston Sports Media Watch has the story including some updates on the Curt Schilling comments on Barry Bonds. Bruce’s site is one of the best watchdog media sites in the nation and he usually keeps a sharp eye on the hypocrisy that is the Boston sports media. For those of you who are interested in media matters, bookmark his site or subscribe via RSS. You won’t go wrong.
The 38 Cliches blog continues to monitor Red Sox radio announcer Glenn Geffner. Last night, it blogged the broadcast from Toronto and it wasn’t pretty as I noted in my post below. Not pretty at all.
Later this month, the miniscule Tennis Channel begins its coverage of its first Grand Slam tennis tournament, the French Open. Currently, it’s available in only 10 million households, but it will go up to as many as 50 million viewers thanks to DirecTV which will carry its coverage. The Tennis Channel will team with ESPN to bring the French Open to the US. The New York Sun has more on the story.
Racing fans will be able to watch the Indianapolis 500 in Hi Def. This will be the only Indy Racing League event to be in HD, however.
The Big 12 Conference may have some of its Saturday night football games sold to ESPN from current rights holder Fox Sports Net. FSN has the cable contract to televise football games. For the past few years, FSN has subleased games to TBS, but Turner opted out this year to concentrate on the MLB postseason. According to the San Antonio Express, talks are heating up between FSN and ESPN. The over-the-air contract is held by ESPN. The Express reports that other possibilities are the NFL Network, Versus or even FSN itself.
Speaking of the NFL Network, starting this Thursday, it will delve into its library and televise some of the original broadcasts of the league’s classic games. It will be called NFL Classics, of course. Here are the schedule of games for this month:
May 10 at 8 p.m. ET
Chicago Bears vs. Arizona Cardinals (ESPN, 2006)
May 17 at 8 p.m. ET
Indianapolis Colts vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (ABC, 2003)
May 24 at 8 p.m. ET
Miami Dolphins vs. New York Jets (ABC, 2000)
May 31 at 8 p.m. ET
Houston Oilers vs. Buffalo Bills (NBC, 1993)
You can more details on the games at the link above.
Primetime Viewing
Red Sox at Toronto – NESN, 7 p.m.
Jericho (season finale) – CBS, 8 p.m.
Lost – ABC, 10 p.m.
