Let’s do some links today.
Brian Steinberg of Variety reports that Fox Sports is bundling Fox Sports 1 to potential Super Bowl XLVIII advertisers. That’s one way to get ads on the new network.
Brian Lowry of Variety says Tennis Channel is crying foul at Comcast in trying to gain carriage on the cable provider’s systems.
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated writes that Major League Soccer is opening its own multimedia division similar to NFL Films and MLB Productions.
Deadline says Fox plans to air a 90 second ad for Fox Sports 1 during the MLB All-Star Game next month.
Steve Lepore at SB Nation’s Puck the Media says don’t expect NBC to end shoveling two Stanley Cup Final games to NBC Sports Network anytime soon.
Alan Siegel of Buzzfeed profiles NESN’s Jack Edwards.
Multichannel News says Madison Square Garden Co. has hired a newly created President of Content, Distribution and Sales for its television networks.
Bill Cromwell of Media Life Magazine says sports, no matter what the event, is a red hot television property.
Jeff Pfeiffer of Channel Guide looks at the TV coverage of tonight’s USA-Honduras World Cup Qualifier.
Sports Media Watch says last Sunday’s NASCAR on TNT drew a very low rating.
SMW notes that the Little League World Series appears to be staying on ESPN for the foreseeable future.
Cynopsis Sports explores ESPN’s coverage of Wimbledon.
CBS News reports that former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason has responded to the Atlanta sports radio morning team that was fired after mocking him yesterday.
Tommy Craggs at Deadspin goes over ESPN laying off its beloved information man, Howie Schwab.
Ed Sherman at The Sherman Report says the Association for Women in Sports Media celebrates 25 years.
Ricky Boebel at SportsGrid has video of a WGN reporter giving out Chicago Blackhawks towels to Boston Bruins fans.
Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing has a screengrab of one of the dumbest topics even for ESPN2’s First Take.
The Business of College Sports notes that Kansas University Athletics and IMG have signed a deal with Time Warner Cable’s Metro Sports to provide original content including live games.
Newsday’s Neil Best writes that an entire boxed set of Seinfeld DVD’s is heading to SNY analyst and Jerry Seinfeld favorite Bob Ojeda.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany (NY) Times Union says U.S. Open champ Justin Rose will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight.
Laura Nachman says an annual Philadelphia sportscasting camp will begin next week.
Harry Minium of the Virginian-Pilot says Cox Communications wants to air four Old Dominion football games this season.
Jim Williams at Sports Talk Florida says the Miami Heat are in a must-win situation tonight.
The Fort Myers (FL) News-Press’ Ed Reed says there are changes coming to the local ESPN Radio affiliate.
Rodney Ho of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution looks at the firing of the Mayhem in the AM crew which produced the ill-timed Steve Gleason bit.
Katherine Terrell of the New Orleans Times-Picayune has Steve Gleason’s reaction.
To the Cincinnati Enquirer where John Kiesewetter tells us that Thursday’s Reds-Pirates game on Fox Sports Ohio will air commercial-free.
Paul M. Banks at Chicago Sports Media Watch says an online radio station made a rape joke on Twitter after last night’s Stanley Cup Final Game 3.
The Mankato (MN) Free-Press says the WCHA hockey conference may look to put its games online.
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has the annual payouts from ESPN and Fox to the Pac-12 Conference thanks to a lawsuit against the NCAA.
That’s going to finish the links for now. Back later with more stuff. Keep your feeds updated.
