I’ll provide some Sunday links for you.
You want to see a wild ending? Dan Wheldon wins the Indianapolis 500 after rookie J.R. Hildebrand crashed into the wall at the final turn. Amazing stuff. Thanks to Bubbaprog/Mocksession for the video.
Dan Hart at Bloomberg notes that David Einhorn is on track to take a majority stake in the New York Mets
Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News writes that MSG Network will present a mixture of sports and entertainment programming this summer.
Muhammed Rahman at SportsGrid has one video of the Fox UEFA Champions League Final pregame show dumbing down soccer, insulting everyone who watched it.
Marcus Vanderberg of SportsNewser says that ESPN Radio DC is now delaying the publishing of its podcasts of its live show by 24 hours. That’s always good to publish old news.
Marcus says yet another team has turned down HBO to appear on Hard Knocks.
The Sporting News says a new ESPN poll shows that LeBron James’ popularity dropped after “The Decision”.
But David C. Wilson, a political science professor at the University of Delaware notes in the Huffington Post that the results might be skewed.
In his baseball notes column, Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe reports that TBS is making a run at NESN Red Sox voice Don Orsillo (scroll to the bottom).
Cafardo adds on Twitter that TBS would attempt to make Orsillo a full-timer. In addition to Red Sox baseball, Orsillo calls Big East basketball on ESPN Regional television and the Beanpot Tournament for NESN. He has called the MLB League Division Series for TBS since 2007.
Maureen Mullen at Comcast SportsNet New England writes that ESPN has allowed NESN to air tonight’s Red Sox-Tigers game after originally saying no.
Eric R. Danton of the Hartford Courant has a feature on ESPN looking for the right music to use on SportsCenter and its many studio shows.
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post decides to set his target on SNY’s Keith Hernandez. Whatever, Phil.
Mark Snyder at the Detroit Free Press notes that Big Ten Network is looking to rebrand and change its logo.
The Detroit Free Press tweets that the Fox Sports Detroit will pick up tonight’s Tigers game vs. the Red Sox.
Neal Rubin of the Detroit News catches up with former ESPN’er Karie Ross who has come back into prominence thanks to the ESPN book.
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has his take on the ESPN book.
Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune goes over the ESPN tome.
Neal Justin of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reviews the ESPN tome, “Those Guys Have All The Fun…”
Dusty Saunders of the Denver News looks at the growth of sports talk radio in the Mile High City.
Dusty also profiles long-time Denver sports talk show host Irv Brown.
Sports Media Watch says last night’s third in three straight primetime broadcasts for Fox gave its MLB package the highest ratings in three years.
Jason Garnatz at Iowa Tube Talk feels ESPN caved into Red Sox pressure to air tonight’s Red Sox-Tigers makeup game.
Awful Announcing has the video from Bubbaprog/Mocksession of Hawk Harrelson’s typical homer call from yesterday’s Chicago White Sox-Toronto Blue Jays game.
The Big Lead recounts an interesting conversation between Dan LeBatard and ESPN.com’s Ric Bucher regarding Derrick Rose’s performance in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
Steve Michaels of Sox & Dawgs looks at the potential TBS offer to NESN’s Don Orsillo.
And that’s going to do it. This Sunday, especially from 3 – 4:20 p.m. turned out to be a busy sequence for sports media news.
