As I’m downloading Beatles tracks from iTunes this morning, let’s do some links as I’m all over the place today.
Michael Hiestand from USA Today looks at the ratings from some of the weekend events.
Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated has his November Media Power Rankings.
Noah Davis from SportsNewser looks at a writer for Esquire magazine who got himself banned by the Miami Heat for writing a story on LeBron James.
Bob Raissman in the New York Daily News goes after Fox for not properly covering the blackout at New Meadowlands Stadium on Sunday.
Newsday’s Neil Best enjoys watching Fox rookie NFL rules analyst Mike Pereira.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union has the college football TV schedule for Week 12.
At the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog, Dan Steinberg discusses what Pardon the Interruption hosts Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon had to say about Donovan McNabb’s new contract.
Ed Sherman from Crain’s Chicago Business has the Cubs wishing for a college bowl game at Wrigley Field.
Ed notes that the Wrigley Field right field wall could pose a problem for this week’s Northwestern-Illinois game.
Over to Dan Caesar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who says the Rams hit their season ratings high on Sunday.
Meg James of the Los Angeles Times looks at the new NBC Universal management team which will include Sports Emperor Dick Ebersol.
Steve Lepore of Puck The Media reviews the debut of NHL Overtime on Versus.
Some college football ratings news from Sports Media Watch.
First, SMW says CBS hit a season ratings high for last Saturday’s Georgia-Auburn game.
SMW says a poor slate of games for ABC brought it to low ratings for Saturday Night Football.
And SMW notes despite an upset of Utah, Notre Dame football was still down for NBC.
I’ll end it there right now as I have to leave the office. I’ll be back with press releases and perhaps more linkage later.
