I really should sleep, but because I see a lot of stories on the net for linkage, there’s definitely enough to warrant linkage.
Starting with Bruce Allen of Boston Sports Media Watch, he notes that WEEI’s press release announcing the signing of bloated Big Show blowhard Glenn Ordway is filled self-adulation.
David Scott of BSMW comes out of book hibernation once again and talks about the traveshamockery (I told you I was going to steal this, David) that is the Ordway signing and NESN throwing Fox Sports Net under the bus for the BC-North Carolina game.
Boston Herald hottie Jessica Heslam says NESN re-aired the Boston College-North Carolina game twice on Monday after screwing up the live showing on Sunday.
My friend, Lou Clinton of the 38Cliches blog is still not convinced that the MLB Network is worth a damn.
Maury Brown’s Biz of Baseball reports that the Oakland A’s have signed on with a new flagship radio station.
The Dallas Morning News’ Barry Horn says the BCS ratings minus last night’s Fiesta Bowl have been nothing to write home about.
Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated writes that since the BCS added a fifth game to the mix, the ratings for the games have gone down dramatically.
Some of you have been asking me what the significance of the lapel pins the Fox announcers have been wearing during the BCS. I asked Fox Sports and they’re to raise awareness for the Alzheimer’s Association. Fox Sports has a website to show what organizations are supported through each sport the network televises.
From the Sports Media Watch, we have some college bowl ratings news. Let’s start with the Sugar Bowl which improved on numbers from the Fiesta Bowl played on the same date last year. The Cotton Bowl did better this year without any competition. The Capital One Bowl’s ratings were down from a year ago. And the Orange Bowl was watched by the participating team’s relatives and girlfriends and no one else.
Next, the SMW looks at the Wild Card Sunday ratings. CBS was down from last year. But with Fox in the late afternoon window, it received the highest ratings of the entire Wild Card Weekend.
Claire Atkinson of Broadcasting & Cable reports that NBC plans to air a 3-D ad during the Super Bowl.
Mike Flaherty of Variety says the 3-D ad will be a 90 second spot promoting DreamWorks’ movie, “Monsters & Aliens”.
John Ryan from the San Jose Mercury News writes that new San Francisco 49ers radio voice Ted Robinson won’t be traveling as much in 2009.
Daniel Brown of the Mercury News says Ted is looking forward to being the new voice replacing Joe Starkey.
The Los Angeles Times’ Diane Pucin feels NBC went overboard in the hyperbole for Matt Millen in its press release announcing he’ll be working the Super Bowl for the network.
Diane wants to know what you think of ESPN.com’s redesign.
Also from the Times, boxing writer Lance Pugmire says an interesting underlying battle in the Manny Pacquaio-Ricky Hatton fight will be the one pitting HBO vs. Showtime for the rights to air the bout.
Geoffrey C. Arnold of The Oregonian is calling for TNT to fire Charles Barkley.
George Vescey of the New York Times says the NHL has stolen New Year’s Day from the college bowl games.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell wants your thoughts on the new Gatorade “G” ad. Darren says Red Sox owner John W. Henry had a very good 2008 economically speaking. And Darren talks the NBA in Communist China and a bunch of other subjects with Commissioner David Stern.
Joe Favorito says sports franchises suffer when their owner’s primary businesses go awry.
Multichannel News says YES Network has a new Handler of Communications.
Laura Nachman says the Comcast Network which replaces CN8 will have some random sports programming.
That is going to do it. I found more links than I thought and now, I really need to sleep. Back on Tuesday.
