Here are some links for you today.
From USA Today, Michael Hiestand has a look at some of the ratings from the weekend.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times talks about the humor surfacing from former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy as he’s getting more comfortable on ESPN and ABC.
The New York Daily News’ Bob Raissman says the Yankees’ apologists were out in force to defend Hank Steinbrenner’s comments about Red Sox Nation.
Neil Best of Newsday talks about the venerable and lovable Ralph Kiner starting another year of broadcasting Mets games. In his blog, Neil talks about Ralph going into his 47th season in the Mets broadcast booth. Neil also links to a story from St. Louis about Joe Buck.
And that story is from Dan Caesar from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and states that Buck will no longer do Cardinals games for FSN Midwest ending a long era of Bucks broadcasting the Redbirds. Since Joe does 10 games for Fox, his wish of spending time with his family is coming to fruition as his workload will be reduced during the summer.
David Barron of the Houston Chronicle looks inside the newspaper’s poll on the differing testimony of Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee and notices a generation and education gap in the numbers. And here’s Barron’s story on the poll.
Dave Del Grande of the Oakland Tribune talks about how expensive producing games in HD is for FSN Bay Area.
Derek Simmonsen of the Treasure Coast Palm in Florida reports that a CBS Sports free lancer was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges relating to an internet porn sting.
Cam Cole of the Canwest News Service in Canada says NHL players can learn a thing or two from CBS Sports golf commentator David Feherty. I didn’t write the story and I’m a little confused about the connection, but once Cole gets started, the quotes from Feherty are indeed funny.
William Houston in the Toronto Globe and Mail says CITY-TV’s first foray into broadcasting the Blue Jays was a 3 hour sales pitch. The story also quotes Providence Journal sports editor Art Martone.
Keith Groller of the Allentown (PA) Morning Call has high praise for ESPN’s Outside the Lines.
Bob Wolfley from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says Bob Knight’s hiring by ESPN is puzzling given the statements he made against network in the past.
From the Kansas City Star, the Sporting News is moving to Charlotte, NC from St. Louis where it was based for 122 years. The same company that operates the Sports Business Journal owns the Sporting News and is consolidating its holdings.
The Big Ten Network says it will provide extensive coverage of the Big Ten Tournament.
That’s it for now.
