After a day in which I dealt with a flooded basement and buying filters for my wet vac, it’s time to bring back the linkage.
USA Today’s Game On blog looks at a new PBS documentary on legendary New Jersey high school basketball coach Bob Hurley.
Bob Velin of USA Today profiles an announcer who will call his 20,000th consecutive horse race over a span of almost 36 years.
Georg Szalai of the Hollywood Reporter says Univision will be airing all 64 World Cup games this summer over a variety of platforms.
Sports Business Daily compiles reaction to the MSG Network’s 3-D production.
Glen Dickson of Broadcasting & Cable says Cablevision and MSG executives are declaring last night’s 3-D production of the New York Rangers-New York Islanders game a success.
Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says Versus received its highest NHL audience of the season on Monday.
Dan Lamothe of the Red Sox Monster blog at the Springfield (MA) Republican looks at recent NESN hire Jade McCarthy quickly becoming a favorite on the channel by taking over the anchoring duties on SportsDesk.
John Altavilla of the Hartford Courant says UConn’s women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will be profiled on ESPN’s Outside the Lines this weekend.
John Koblin of the New York Observer notes that the Wall Street Journal will launch its sports section next month.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reviews MSG Network’s first 3-D telecast.
Dan Martin of the New York Post says the 3-D production was popular with fans and players alike.
Peter Botte of the New York Daily News has a similar story on the fans who watched the Islanders-Rangers game in 3-D.
Ken Schott of the Schenectady Gazette has the NCAA Hockey Tournament TV schedule.
The Washington Examiner’s Jim Williams says CBS is back with the NCAA Tournament tonight.
John Boyette of the Augusta (GA) Chronicle says Tiger Woods will be talking to reporters at The Masters on April 5.
Noell Barnidge of the Savannah (GA) Morning News says ESPN’s Outside the Lines is in town to do a story regarding an incident at Savannah State University.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News looks at one person who has a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket.
Stefan Stevenson of the Fort Worth Star Telegram says TCU has chosen a new flagship radio station for football and basketball.
General John McClain of the Houston Chronicle says the Texans and the New York Jets want to be the Thanksgiving Night game on NFL Network.
Mel Bracht in the Daily Oklahoman writes that TNT plans to go interactive tonight for the Miami-Chicago game.
Tyler James of the Columbus Dispatch says a local teenager tops ESPN.com’s NCAA Tournament bracket challenge.
Anthony Schoette at the Indianapolis Business Journal feels Bob Knight is mellowing in his old age.
Curt Cavin of the Indianapolis Star writes that Good Morning America co-host and former ESPN anchor Robin Roberts will be driving the Indianapolis 500 pace car on May 30. There’s no corporate synergy in that decision as ESPN/ABC airs the Indy 500 that day.
In Crain’s Chicago Business, Ed Sherman feels the NCAA should allow arena advertising during its games.
Jim O’Donnell of the Chicago Sun-Times laments the potential end for a long-running WGN-AM sports show.
Bob Wolfley in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has ESPN’s Orel Hershiser and Rick Sutcliffe talking about various MLB issues.
Bob Mayhall of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat talks with CBS’ Verne Lundquist who will be calling the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest Regional this weekend.
The Denver Post reports that the MLS’ Colorado Rapids are moving a majority of its games to free TV this season.
Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times interviews Fox Sports El Jefe del Mundo David Hill about bidding for the Olympics, the MLB All-Star Game in 3-D and trying to get a younger halftime act for the Super Bowl.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News previews his Friday column on Friend of Fang’s Bites Victor Rojas and his new social networking project, Yakcy.
Kevin Iole of Yahoo’s Cagewriter blog writes that an ESPN.com MMA show is moving to ESPN2.
The Sports Media Watch says MLB has eliminated the off day between Games 4 and 5 in the League Championship Series.
SMW has
some various news and notes.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media feels that last night’s Pittsburgh-Washington game should have been on Versus and not NHL Network. Agreed.
The great Maury Brown at the Biz of Baseball says the MLB At Bat iPhone/iPod Touch app finally has live streaming video of Spring Training games as of today.
Phillip Badger of EPL Talk gives us an update on the latest with Fox Soccer Plus and Fox Soccer Channel HD.
We’ll end it there for now.
