Let’s do some linkage while I have some time.
USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes NBC’s hiring of Tiger Woods pal Notah Begay to its golf team. He replaces Dottie Pepper who went to the PGA of America.
Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand profiles ESPN PR pioneer Rosa Gatti who is retiring from the network after working there since the early days.
John & Tripp Mickle write that NBC remains as a wild card in the NASCAR Sprint Cup talks.
Over to the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center where Manny Randhawa definitely had an agenda in an interview with Deadspin editor Tommy Craggs over the site’s Manti Te’o coverage. Craggs shoots down several of Randhawa’s loaded questions.
To the Bleacher Report where King Kaufman analyzes the Craggs interview. It should be noted that Randhawa did some writing for B/R, but not now.
Michael O’Connell of the Hollywood Reporter says thanks to the Super Bowl and the Grammys, CBS will win the February sweeps while NBC without the NFL has fallen harder than a 3 ton boulder.
In Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable’s Tim Baysinger writes about ESPN getting out of the UK and selling its channels to BT Group.
At The Sherman Report, Ed Sherman notes that Leigh Montville is still producing high quality columns.
ESPN’s Darren Rovell says NASCAR needs to find a way to keep the increased audience that watched the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
Sports Video Group tells us that the MLS’s FC Dallas has signed a TV rights deal with Time Warner Cable. Fox Sports Southwest previously held the rights.
Keith Groller of the Allentown (PA) Morning Call says the Iron Pigs announcers will call some Philadelphia Phillies Spring Training games.
Eric Deggans from the Tampa Bay Times writes about the shaky debut of CBS Radio’s FM sports radio station.
John Kiesewetter from the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that the Reds Radio Network has switched games to air Aroldis Chapman’s Spring debut.
Paul M. Banks at Chicago Sports Media Watch says it’s time to end the live postgame interviews.
Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times says ESPN’s Brent Musburger autographed a Katherine Webb poster.
Mark Blaudschun of A Jersey Guy looks at ESPN and the Big East getting back together again.
The Canadian Sports Media Blog says the proposed NHL realignment is good for TV, but not necessarily good for some teams.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media wonders how Olympic hockey would look on CBC and NBC.
Sports Media Watch has some various ratings news.
And we’ll end it there for now.
