Ok, now that our lives are getting back to normal after the Super Bowl, it’s time to focus on other sports like college basketball, the NHL and even baseball which will begin Spring Training this weekend. Yes, it’s almost that time. Let’s go to the links.
From the Sports Business Journal, John Ourand takes a look at the local NHL TV ratings to see which markets love their puck and which ones don’t.
John also focuses on the local NBA TV ratings.
Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that Super Bowl XLV on Fox is the highest-rated since Super Bowl XXX on NBC.
The Nielen Ratings Wire blog goes inside the Super Bowl’s record viewership.
Marcus Vanderberg of SportsNewser has the transcript of Phil Simms discussing his incident with Desmond Howard.
Andrea Domanick of Broadcasting & Cable says FX is picking up “The League” for a third season.
Diego Vasquez from Media Life Magazine talks with an ad analyst about this year’s crop of Super Bowl ads.
Toni Fitzgerald of Media Life also looks at the record viewership for this year’s Super Bowl.
Bill Carter of the New York Times says the ratings for Bill O’Reilly’s interview of President Obama during the Super Bowl pregame show fell way short of his outlandish prediction.
Bill writes that the Super Bowl’s record viewership capped off a record year for the NFL.
Richard Sandomir of the Times also mentions the Super Bowl’s record numbers.
Bob Raissman from the New York Daily News says no matter how hard Fox’s Chris Myers tried, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin showed that he’s not one for sappiness.
Newsday’s Neil Best also goes inside the Super Bowl’s viewership numbers.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union says ESPN2 has picked up a Siena game later this month.
Ken McMillan of the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record has your 2011 motorsports TV schedule.
Evan Weiner of the New Jersey Newsroom says it’s now up to the NFL’s owners and players to ensure we have a 2011 season.
Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog notes that the TV ratings for the Capitals and Wizards are on different tracks.
Jim Williams of the Washington Examiner talks about Fox’s record viewing numbers for the Super Bowl.
Eric Crawford of the Louisville Courier-Journal explains how sitting on press row for games isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News says the national media was pretty cruel to Dallas over Super Bowl Week.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette has this week’s Sports Illustrated’s cover which naturally has the Packers.
Ed Sherman in Crain’s Chicago Business says the local ratings for the Super Bowl were pretty huge.
William Lee at the Chicago Tribune reports that the statue of the late Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray was defaced.
Dan Caesar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes the Super Bowl’s record viewership and also points out the local ratings.
T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times writes a new team in Southern California would ruin watching the NFL on TV.
Andy Boogard from the Fresno Bee likes ESPN’s Trent Dilfer.
Sports Media Watch looks at the ratings for Fox’s Super Bowl pregame show.
SMW also checks into how Glee did for Fox following the Super Bowl.
SMW says the NHL on NBC did not fare well on Super Bowl Sunday.
On the other hand, SMW notes that the Phoenix Open did well for CBS this past weekend.
Ben Koo at Awful Announcing takes a look into recent failures by ESPN to credit other people’s work.
During a busy stretch last month, I forgot to link to story. Thanks to my Twitter Trophy Wife, Amanda Rykoff, for posting it again at her Posterous site to mention that she’s no longer going to be maintaining The OCD Chick site. Amanda is contributing to espnW.
At Puck The Media, Steve Lepore notes that Versus has let go of NHL announcer Joe Beninati. He’ll still call the Capitals for Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic.
Steve also urges viewers to be patient with the changes being made at Versus.
Steve suggests NBC to use Versus for an NHL pregame show before its own Game of the Week. Good idea.
Larry Granillo of Baseball Prospectus has taken the time to determine which Cubs game was seen during the movie, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Thanks to the Big Lead for the link.
Dan Fogarty of SportsGrid has the video of Christina Aguilera’s rehearsal of the National Anthem before the Super Bowl and note that she does this perfectly.
And that’s going to do it for us as far as linkage is concerned.
