I can’t believe it’s November already. Just think had the World Series gone seven games, the Colorado Rockies and Red Sox would be playing tonight. But luckily, the Sox won in four. But anyway, the sporting world moves to following the NFL, NBA, NHL, college football and soon, college basketball.
Let’s get to some links.
Mel Bracht of the Daily Oklahoman talks about how the NBA TV analysts feel the Seattle SuperSonics will fare this season. There is speculation that the Sonics may move to Oklahoma City. And Bracht’s blog has more on this story in his blog.
Bill Doyle of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette talks with Celtics radio analyst Cedric Maxwell.
David Barron in the Houston Chronicle’s Four DVRs, no waiting blog says a Houston radio station is running a promotion for fans to see the Patriots-Colts game this Sunday. The game is not going to be seen on the local CBS affiliate because of the Texans-Raiders game running at the same time.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times has a story on Howard Rubenstein, the official spokesman of George Steinbrenner. And Sandomir writes about prolific Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan who will be doing the official film for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
ESPN says this week’s Monday Night Football game had the biggest cable TV audience of the year.
Bob Molinaro of the Virginian-Pilot writes that CBS is expecting record ratings for the Patriots-Colts game. George M. Thomas of the Akron Beacon Journal laments that the local CBS affiliate cannot air the Pats-Colts game opposite the Seahawks-Browns game on Fox. John Ryan of the San Jose Mercury News says the Bay Area will know at 1 p.m. PT whether the Texans-Raiders game will be sold out which would mean the Patriots-Colts game will be shown locally.
Eric Lacy of the Detroit News had comments from Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney and Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo about the Big Ten Network. Emily Friedman of ABCNews.com has a story on BTN’s battle with the big cable TV companies. Pete Katz of Cleveland Scene writes that no one is fighting for the fan in the NFL Network and BTN battles. The Wisconsin Radio Network has a story on a proposal to put University of Wisconsin games on public TV.
Jack O’Connell of MLB.com writes that the ballot is up for the Ford C. Frick Award to induct an announcer into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jake Donovan of FoxSports.com says Showtime has the better of the TV boxing bouts this weekend.
James Day of the Salem (OR) Statesman Journal says that Comcast SportsNet Portland debuts today, but only on Comcast cable systems.
The four remaining football games of the University of Hawaii will be seen on the ESPN family of networks. ESPN/ABC will also show the final three games for the University of Arizona.
Ryan White of the Oregonian says ESPN influences more than just TV.
That is it for now. I have a lot of work to do so I might have an update tonight rather than mid-afternoon.
