It’s mid-week, I’ve yet to catch up on my sleep, but I’m sure you don’t care and why should you? Anyway, let’s give you the links for today.
It’s been over 24 hours since we heard about Brett Favre’s retirement. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks to the next phase of Favre’s career which could be as either a game or studio analyst for the networks. But can you see him wearing a suit and tie?
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes that everything changed for Packer Nation when Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reported that Brett Favre was going to retire. Jon Polzin of the Capital (WI) Times says news of the retirement touched off a media frenzy. Cam Inman of the Oakland Tribune talks with Bay Area NFL analysts including NBC’s John Madden about King Favre. Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times says the retirement sent shockwaves throughout Green Bay and the NFL community.
Laura Nachman’s Philadelphia TV and radio blog says Comcast SportsNet will have an interview with Eagles President Joe Banner tonight.
ESPN.com tells us how it assembled a tape of the five overtime Baylor-Texas A&M game in January that was originally not broadcast on TV. The game will be shown tonight on ESPN Classic in its entirety.
Ken Schott of the Schenectady (NY) Gazette talks about the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule and complains about Gary Thorne replacing Dan Schulman on ESPN Radio.
Phil Swann of the TV Predictions website says all of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball schedule will be shown in HD. Good news.
William Houston of the Toronto Globe and Mail appeals to CBC to show teams other than the Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada. Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette says NBC’s rating for last Sunday’s Flyers-Rangers game was up slightly from the week before (scroll down).
Lisa Singleton-Rickman of the Florence (AL) Times Daily talks with Alabama native Rece Davis of ESPN who came home to speak at a local school.
Vartan Kupelian of the Detroit News has the first of a two part series on the PGA Tour and today’s installment is on Tiger Woods’ impact on the TV ratings and attendance.
Brian Lowry of Variety says the Super Bowl aside, the ratings for event television such as the Oscars are down dramatically.
John Grindod of the Lima (OH) News talks about Bob Knight almost taking a job with CBS when it landed the rights for the NCAA Tournament in 1981.
The New York Post’s Page Six gossip column (which is never on page 6 in the newspaper, by the way) reports that former CBS Sports host Pat O’Brien has been dropped from the unwatchable The Insider and replaced with Donny Osmond. The only thing that is close to being watchable on that show is the lovely Lara Spencer. Although POB is still shown prominently on the show’s website.
