The title says it all. After being out at a jobsite this morning, it’s time for me to do some links for you.
The PGA Championship is underway and you can watch live online coverage at PGA.com.
USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has a special Thursday column and it looks at the Olympics by the numbers.
An American reporter for Radio Free Asia was denied an entry visa into Communist China to cover the Olympics.
Neil Best of Newsday sarcastically cheers for NBC which surpassed the $1 billion mark in ad sales for the Olympics.
Rick Kushman of the Sacramento Bee says NBC is hoping for gold in its massive Olympics coverage.
Chuck Barney from the Contra Costa (CA) Times says NBC wants to make these Olympics “Must See TV”.
Ron Judd of the Seattle Times says there will be plenty of opportunities to watch the Olympic on TV and on the web.
Wayne Fish from the Bucks County (PA) Courier Times talks with NBCOlympics.com head Kevin Monaghan about the plethora of online coverage for these Games.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld of ZDNet tells Cablevision customers to identify themselves as Time Warner Cable subscribers so they can log into NBC’s online coverage.
NBC Sports provides some quotes from Emperor Dick Ebersol and other executives on the 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage.
Eric Kohanik of the Canwest News Service says CBC is up to the challenge of providing live Olympic action despite as much as a 13.5 hours time difference difference in Canada.
Jonathan Huntington of the Edmonton Sun says the wife of a CFL Edmonton Eskimos assistant coach will be working for CBC, providing commentary on beach and indoor volleyball during the Olympics.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell catches up with Olympic multi-gold medalist Carl Lewis and talks about the worst ever rendition of the National Anthem at a sporting event (yes, even worse than Roseanne). And Darren says two hours after obtaining Brett Favre in a trade, the New York Jets were already were cashing in.
Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record gives credit to Jay Glazer of Fox Sports for breaking the Brett Favre to the Jets story.
Back to Neil Best, he says SNY suddenly became a big winner in the Brett Favre sweepstakes as it carries a plethora of Jets programming.
Mike Lewis of the Capital (WI) Times says even local sportscasters have grown tired of the Brett Favre soap opera.
Tim Cusprisin of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel tells tired viewers to move on from Brett Favre.
Bob Wolfley of the Journal Sentinel says recaps an interview former Packer Paul Hornung did with Sirius NFL Radio.
Jim Williams of the DC/Baltimore Examiner says the Baltimore Ravens radio broadcast team will also be calling the team’s exhibition games on TV starting tonight.
The Montgomery Advertiser says Alabama-Clemson will be the centerpiece of ESPN’s opening week of college football coverage.
FSN Ohio becomes the cable TV home of the University of Cincinnati.
The Sports Media Watch says Versus will become the official cable TV partner of the Indy Racing League. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times has a blurb on the IRL move to Versus. Curt Cavin of the Indianapolis Star goes further into depth on the IRL/Versus deal. By the way, the Indianapolis 500 is not affected by the change in networks, it remains with ESPN/ABC.
You know those live commercials ESPN has been running to promote the live morning SportsCenters? Well, an F-bomb was caught on camera as Deadspin tells us.
William Houston of the Toronto Globe and Mail writes that TSN is ready to launch a secondary channel.
That does it for now.
