It’s a great Monday to be a New England sports fan. The Patriots stomped on Miami, Boston College is ranked #2 in the BCS and of course, the Red Sox beat Cleveland in the American League Championship Series coming back from a 3-1 deficit. Now, you may have noticed that I’m a diehard Red Sox fan, but I’m a Browns fan and I certainly hate Boston College so paraphrasing Meat Loaf, 1 outta 3 ain’t bad. Patriots fans right now have this sense of entitlement that scoring 49 points isn’t enough which is out of hand. And Boston College fans are just plain annoying so when BC loses in any sport, I wholeheartedly encourage their opponent to run up the score. Unfortunately, no one has been able to do this in football as of yet, but it will happen down the road.
To our links this morning.
First, David Scott of Boston Sports Media Watch was up watching the Boston TV stations cover the American League Championship celebration at Fenway Park and noticed that Fox 25’s Butch Stearns who displayed some disgraceful behavior in 2004 grabbing the World Series trophy from a Red Sox official during a live shot and holding it over his head, had similar disgraceful behavior in 2007.
Michael McCarthy of USA Today takes Fox to task for not mentioning the Paul Byrd HGH story earlier than it did.
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post takes WFAN’s Mike and the Mad Dog to task on the Joe Torre story. Newsday’s Neil Best writes that Joe Torre won’t be in the Fox booth for the World Series. In the New York Daily News, David Hinckley says the two New York City sports radio stations have gone all-Joe Torre, all the time.
Brian Hedger from the Gary (IN) Post-Tribune says the dispute between Comcast and the Big Ten Network shows both sides are both greedy, but Comcast’s greed outweighs BTN.
Rob Daniels of the Greensboro News-Record writes that the ACC probably will not expand to 18 conference games even though its TV partners want it.
The Four DVRs, no waiting blog written by the Houston Chronicle’s David Barron has a recap of the Sunday NFL pregame shows as well as Barron’s watching the Tennessee-Texans game in standard definition.
Dusty Saunders in the Rocky Mountain News writes about Jimmy Kimmel being banned from Monday Night Football and having too many voices in the pregame shows.
Larry Stewart has the Morning Briefing in the Los Angeles Times and has a quick hit on Shannon Sharpe’s take on the Buffalo Bills wanting to play a game in Toronto on Sirius Satellite Radio.
The Chronicle-Telegram of Ohio discusses how one of its columns became bulletin board material for the Red Sox and thus, ballooning to be a national story during on Fox’s coverage of the American League Championship Series.
Brandweek magazine talks about ESPN’s and TNT’s planned promotion of the NBA this week.
Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star praises Rogers Sportsnet’s Greg Zaun for showing candor and improvement during coverage of the MLB Postseason.
The Florida Times-Union’s Jeff Elliot previews tonight’s Indianapolis-Jacksonville Monday Night Football game with ESPN’s Ron Jaworski.
The Baltimore’s Sun Ray Frager writes in his Medium Well blog that CBS’ Rich Gannon gave some confusing commentary.
That’ll be it for now. Back later.
