I’m going to give you some quick links because my day has again been planned for me. I hate working in a family business.
Anyway, let’s get to it. Neil Best of Newsday has his Sunday column and he talks about TBS Sports’ new national baseball package.
From the New York Post, Phil Mushnick, who apparently hates Bob Knight, wants to know why ESPN won’t show the clips of him throwing chairs, pounding tables and yelling at players.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times writes about the NHL launching a new online channel on its website.
In the New York Daily News, Bob Raissman writes about Steven A. Smith losing his ESPN Radio gig.
Ken Schott of the Schenectady Gazette writes that with baseball, The Masters and the Final Four all overlapping, this is one of the best times of the year for sports.
The Sports Media Watch gives its weekly ratings predictions.
Dan Caesar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis sports radio host has been fired for putting Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan on the air without his permission.
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the Brewers have signed a four year deal to renew its radio agreement with WTMJ.
R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News says MLB has given permission for cable providers to have baseball replays on demand.
Andrew Hinkelman of the Anchorage Daily News says there’s a lot of confusion over Alaskan cable companies and Seattle Mariners games.
The Kansas City Star’s Jeffrey Flanagan talks with CBS Sports’ top voice Jim Nantz not about the Final Four, but about his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Dave Weekley of the Charleston (WV) Gazette writes that CBS College Sports will replay the men’s Final Four today.
Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes now it’s the women’s turn for the Final Four.
Mike DeMauro of The Day of New London, CT writes that women’s basketball has come a long way, but it still has a ways to go to catch up to the popularity of the men’s game.
David Moulton writing for the Naples (FL) Daily News says women’s college basketball is the hottest sport in the country based on its ratings.
Chuck Leddy of the Boston Globe reviews the new book from Deadspin’s Will Leitch (kind of late, don’t you think).
Aaron Williams of the Redding (CA) Record-Spotlight says sports radio fans are angry that a local station is changing formats.
Sharon Robb of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel says Spike TV has garnered good ratings thanks to UFC.
The Toledo (OH) Blade has an article on a statistician who has worked many a network TV gig.
David Barron of the Houston Chronicle says FSN Southwest is apologizing for leaving the Andy Roddick-Roger Federer match at the Sony Ericsson Championships while it was in progress.
That will do it for today.
