Ok, time for some linkage on a Friday. Let’s get to this.
Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing reports that NBC Sports Network, formerly Versus, also known as OLN, and once the Outdoor Life Network, will undergo yet another rebranding.
Douglas Alden Warshaw at Fortune/CNN Money says the ESPN hiring of Nate Silver could transform sports television. Hold your horses, bunky. Too early to say.
Speaking of Silver, Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead explores if his relationship with the New York Times sports section was the real reason why the statistical maven left the paper for ESPN/ABC.
Stuart Kemp of the Hollywood Reporter writes that a BBC survey finds that a majority of Britons feel that the 2012 Olympics were worth the high cost and would welcome the Games back again.
Multichannel News says ONE World Sports has signed programming deals with English Premier League clubs Arsenal and Chelsea.
Bill Cromwell of Media Life Magazine says a survey of publication readers finds that most aren’t confident that ESPN2’s upcoming “Olbermann” program will last long.
Ed Sherman in The Sherman Report looks back at the influence of the late New York Post curmudgeon and hater of everything, Dick Young.
Sports Media Watch checks the ratings for the Tour de France.
Joe Favorito looks at the New York Giants getting a new sponsor for its training facility.
Patrick Burns at Deadspin reviews his year following ESPN’s SportsCenter.
Viv Bernstein of the New York Times writes in her own Jersey/Slant blog about the number of Jews who cover NASCAR. Did not realize this. h/t to Ed Sherman.
As we get closer to the opening of the English Premier League season, the London Guardian reports that the EPL plans to crackdown on illegal broadcasts and websites streaming its matches.
Bill Doyle of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette looks at a new documentary on the late Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics.
Phil Mushnick in the New York Post feels Ryan Braun’s apology doesn’t pass muster.
Justin Terranova of the Post has five questions for NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger.
Ken Schott from the Schenectady Gazette says the ECAC Hockey Final Four will be back on Fox College Sports in 2014.
The Albany (NY) Times Union’s Pete Dougherty says the University of Albany has made the CAA football TV schedule.
Ken McMillan of the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record reviews the cast of the new Fox Sports Live.
Keith Groller of the Allentown (PA) Morning Call writes that former Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb has a new TV gig.
Dave Hughes from DCRTV writing in Press Box says ratings for the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals are up from last year.
Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog says DC NFL Team quarterback Robert Griffin III hit the front pages of several area newspapers.
From That Sports Girl blog, the lovely Gina Miller of CBS11/KTXA in Dallas has some wardrobe advice for prospective male TV interns.
Mel Bracht from The Oklahoman discusses the new Fox Sports Live show that launches on August 17.
John Kieswetter of the Cincinnati Enquirer notes that Sunday Night Football analyst Cris Collinsworth has signed up to be a commercial pitchman.
Dan Caesar from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wonders if two long-time sports media adversaries can get along as sports radio partners.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News looks at Fox Sports 1.
Tom has his What Smokes/What Chokes feature.
Tom also has some extensive sports media news and notes.
Jonathan Biles in the Sporting Herald takes a gander at the hybrid highlights/discussion panel show that will be Fox Sports Live.
Michael Leboff at Next Impulse Sports explains why Logan Morrison of the Miami Marlins is a must-follow on Twitter.
And that is going to do it for the linkage today.
