Well, I’m still recovering from staying up late watching the Olympics coverage. With women’s gymnastics on tonight, expect another late night.
Let’s start with Newsday’s Neil Best who has a couple of stories in today’s edition of the newspaper. The first story has reaction from NBC’s Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines who called the thrilling men’s 4 x 100 meters swimming relay. Neil’s second story is on NBC’s internet coverage which is sans announcers, but has bloggers providing live commentary. And in his blog, Neil writes about the New York Jets bringing on Florida State University Cowgirl Jenn Sterger as their gameday host. Bloggers across the country seemed to be obsessed with Jenn, mostly in a negative way. She’s hot and she’s parlayed one cutaway TV shot on ABC into a career, but more power to her for being able to make money. If you so wish, you can visit her website.
The New York Daily News’ Bob Raissman feels Bela Karolyi is a walking, talking conflict of interest commenting on gymnastics on NBC while his wife is coaching the US women’s team.
Keith Groller of the Allentown (PA) Morning Call says NBC’s ratings for the Olympics have been nothing short of golden.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell says Rick and Dick Hoyt, the father and son team that have been seen in many a marathon and triathlon, have been signed to a shoe endorsement deal and I think everyone can agree they truly deserve it. Last year, HBO’s Real Sports profiled the pair in a very inspirational story. If you don’t know, Rick has cerebral palsy and his father Dick, pushes him in a wheelchair at road races all across the country.
The Albany Times Union’s Pete Dougherty says NBC’s softball voice Joe Castellano made his debut last night.
Ken McMillan from the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record says Late Night with the Olympics has been quite entertaining.
James Hibberd from the Hollywood Reporter has NBC responding to some fakery accusations during the Olympics Opening Ceremonies.
Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media blog gives Microsoft credit for its Silverlight technology which powers the NBCOlympics.com live video streams.
Anick Jesdanun of the Associated Press likes the online streaming of the Games, but it won’t replace TV.
The Sports Business Daily/Journal’s Olympic website reports that NBC is averaging a 17.0 rating for the Games through Sunday, a very good number in this day and age.
Mike Shields of Adweek says NBC and Yahoo are the clear leaders in online traffic for the Olympics.
Jerry Guo of Gadling has some ways to find the Olympics online if you can’t access NBCOlympics.com’s streams. I’m not endorsing this by the way.
NBC is taking preorders for the Olympics highlights DVD.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News says the Olympics beat the Cowboys in the local ratings on Saturday.
Ted Cox of the Chicago Daily Herald writes that NBC has been caught off guard as the Olympics are actually living up to the hype.
Bob Wolfley from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the NFL Network is going to pick up the reamaining exhibition game schedule of the New York Jets and ESPN has changed plans for the first Monday Night Football game at Green Bay.
Jay Glazer of Fox Sports gives us the account of how he came to break the Brett Favre-to-the-Jets story.
Jeffrey Flanagan of the Kansas City Star says the Monday Night Football crew might be finally getting the broadcast right.
George M. Thomas of the Akron Beacon Journal says Time Warner Cable is not doing right by its customers by not adding the Big Ten Network to its lineup.
But Comcast customers aren’t going to have that problem as of August 15. Don Dodson of the Urbana/Champaign (IL) News-Gazette has the story.
Mike Nadel who wrote the anti-Erin Andrews column now comes back with a new story talking about the reaction.
Wayne Fish from the Philly Burbs newspapers says Chris Thierien will join the Flyers’ radio booth. Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer says Thierien will replace Brian Propp.
Thomas Stinson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes about the Skip Caray memorial service that took place on Monday. Carroll Rogers of the AJC says Caray’s wit and life were celebrated.
And our last story has to do with a new show on Fine Living that will skewer Martha Stewart. Brook Barnes of the New York Times writes that Martha’s daughter, the always lovely Alexis and Jennifer Koppleman Hutt, the co-hosts of Whatever on Sirius Satellite Radio will do a MST3K-type snarky skewering of Martha’s old shows.
