Well, not really late, but I’m trying to be short with the titles of the entries, unless it’s really, really important. Time for the links on this Thursday afternoon.
Newsday’s Neil Best continues to post pictures of women on his blog entries. He explains that the pictures are tasteful and are mostly relevant to his entries. Ok. Well, he has one on the re-teaming of Chris Carlin and the attractive Kim Jones (pictured in the entry) on WFAN … at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m.! And his next entry is on the hiring of Alyssa Milano (what do you think?) to blog for TBS at its Hot Corner site on MLB.com. Neil certainly loves the woman, don’t you think? I asked him in the entry on Alyssa if he could post pictures of Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansen “provided they’re relevant to the posts.”
Jim Carlisle of the Ventura County Star blogs that FSN West will have a rare day without any live events to cover.
Julia Bauer of the Grand Rapids Press talks with cable subscribers who can’t watch the Big Ten Network. Here’s the coverage map for the Big Ten Network for the early games on Saturday.
Even though it’s Week 3 of the college football season, CBS Sports finally gets into the game this weekend with the season premiere of the SEC Game of the Week. The press release also notes that CSTV.com will stream CBS games, but for a price.
SI’s Richard Deitsch looks at the changes in the networks for their NFL broadcasting lineups. One thing Deitsch writes that needs to be corrected. He said Fox’ Troy Aikman has not called a game involving his former offensive coordinator, Norv Turner, now coaching San Diego. Um, Richard? Aikman did that on Sunday. UPDATE, 11:37 p.m. – Richard has now corrected this.
The Dallas-Miami game on Sunday will not be seen in the Naples, FL area.
For fans of the UEFA Champions League in Europe, they have an opportunity to see all the games on broadband in the US. The catch? Your ISP has to sign up for ESPN360.
Fans of NASCAR can listen to every race in the Chase for the Nextel Cup on Sirius Satellite Radio. Seth Livingstone of USA Today has a behind-the-scenes look at ESPN’s coverage of NASCAR.
Mark Gillespie of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that local NBC affiliate WKYC will be broadcasting the Indians-Royals game on Sunday and that will cut into NBC’s coverage of the PGA’s final stop, the Tour Championship. The PGA says due to expected stormy weather on Friday, tee times for the 2nd round have been moved up, but the Golf Channel will still show its coverage starting at 1 p.m. ET on tape. And the Golf Channel will have coverage of the Solheim Cup, the competition between US and European female golfers this weekend.
Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes that with its 11th season about to come to a close, the WNBA is beaming thanks to record attendance, record ratings and a new contract with ESPN.
That will do it for now. I may have an update tonight. Check back later.
