The Patriots managed to hold on to beat the Ravens last night. Crazy game, but it marked the first time I really paid attention to a Monday Night Football telecast since ESPN took over last year. To be honest as an announcer, Tony Kornheiser is a very good writer. That means he shouldn’t quit his day job. I like him on Pardon the Interruption, but in the Howard Cosell observer role, he’s a pale comparison. I wasn’t very impressed, plus it appeared ESPN was paying more attention to everything, but the game. They talked about Sean Taylor (as they should), but it seemed to be an underlying theme.
From the Sports Media Watch, Paulsen talks about the good ratings for the final weekend of College Football.
Newsday’s Neil Best writes about WFAN’s Mike & the Mad Dog’s mistreatment of the Sean Taylor story.
Brett Favre is the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
The Detroit Free Press has a transcript of an interview sports radio station WDFN conducted with ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit about him releasing the erroneous Les Miles to Michigan story this past weekend. Herbstreit now says he will stick to X’s & O’s and leave the reporting to others. Phillip Zaroo of the Mlive.com website also writes about the Herbstreit interview and also has the audio of the interview. And the Detroit Free Press also goes over Les Miles’ interview with Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio.
Lynn Ducey of the Business Journal of Phoenix writes that ESPN will apparently use Scottsdale, AZ as its base for its coverage of the Super Bowl instead of Glendale, AZ where the game will be played.
Paul Gough of the pro-studio Hollywood Reporter writes about ESPN launching SportsCenter.com which will provide live scores for 180 countries.
The Orbitcast blog on satellite radio says XM Satellite Radio will carry all five Bowl Championship Series games.
Ed Sherman of the Chicago Tribune says local TV station WPWR will carry the NFL Network’s feed of the Bears-Redskins game this Thursday. Tom Witosky of the Des Moines (IA) Register writes that the NFL and Big Ten Networks are still in a stalemate with Mediacom. Michael Futch of the Fayetteville (NC) Observer writes about the problems the NFL Network is having with Time Warner.
George M. Thomas of the Akron Beacon Journal looks at the dueling BCS Selection Shows on Fox and ESPN that aired at the same time on Sunday.
Dave Del Grande of the Oakland Tribune writes that co-owned Comcast SportsNet West and FSN Bay Area will carry high school championship games in the upcoming days.
Those are the links for now.
