Cleaning up some links I didn’t have time to get to today.
The Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein talks with Jimmy DeCastro, the man who lured Dan Patrick away from ESPN Radio.
In his blog at the Houston Chronicle website, David Barron writes about colleague Richard Justice who will host a show on the newest sports radio station in the market.
Former Newsday Sports Media writer Stan Isaacs has his review of the HBO Brooklyn Dodger documentary (thanks to Isaac’s successor, Neil Best for the link).
Deadspin continues to get info on ESPN. It managed to get some of the jokes cut from Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue of the ESPY’s. And I don’t know how Will Leitch obtained it and I’m not questioning it, but he somehow got a hold of ESPN’s interoffice gripe session.
Even CBS News is getting into the act of criticizing ESPN. The Public Eye blog says features like “Who’s Now” show that the Alleged Worldwide Leader is in its own dog days.
You want more ESPN bashing? Here’s Ted Gay who bemoans the loss of Dan Patrick.
ESPN/ABC will televise the Breeder’s Cup Challenge, a new series of races leading up to … the Breeder’s Cup, what else? And the Challenge races will be streamed online as well.
Leaving ESPN, the Big Ten Network has hired another person from ESPN, Gerry DiNardo who worked with Dave Revsine on College Gameday on the radio side.
I’ll be back later with my review of Real Sports on HBO.
