Yes you do. It’s overdue. I thought being on unemployment would give me more time for doing the site. Instead, I have less. I don’t know how that’s happened. Anyway, here are some links for you. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand...
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Category: Michelle Beadle
Let’s provide you with three thoughts on this Tuesday. You know the drill. After learning that her contract was expiring, leading to speculation that she was about to leave, seemingly leaving, then indeed she was leaving, we finally got the...
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NBCUniversal announces that Michelle Beadle, leaving ESPN2′s SportsNation at the end of this month, will be hosting a show for NBC Sports Network as well as being a New York-based correspondent for Access Hollywood. This fits Michelle as she’ll have...
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I’ll do some more linkage for you this evening. You’re owed it. Why not? Thomas O’Toole from USA Today reports that Laurie Fine, the wife of ex-Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, is suing ESPN for libel saying a report...
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I’ve accumulated a lot of links. They’re slowing down my browser so let’s clear them so I can let my computer get back some memory. Lots of stuff going on. Let’s start with ESPN stuff as it dominated the news...
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During today’s Upfront presentation to advertisers, ESPN President John Skipper confirmed to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch that indeed, Michelle Beadle has left ESPN. ESPN president John Skipper confirms @MichelleDBeadle is leaving ESPN. “We wish her well,” says Skipper. — Richard...
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Happy Mother’s Day. It’s been quite the day in sports already. A few thoughts in bullet form. Fox promised us unprecedented coverage on the last day of the English Premier League season and it delivered. Using FX, Fox Sports Net,...
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Hall and Oates from 1976 and the Old Grey Whistle Test. She’s Gone. Michelle Beadle is leaving ESPN2′s SportsNation. The official word came today. Jim Miller, co-author of “Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside the World of ESPN” has...
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Let’s do some Friday megalinks. You’ve been owed some and I haven’t been able to do links for most of the week. Of course, you have the Weekend Viewing Picks which provide plenty of college sports, soccer, baseball and the...
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Thursday turned out to be quite the crazy day for those of us who follow the sports media beat. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. On any given day, you just don’t know when sports media news...
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This coming from my friends over at SportsbyBrooks. SbB has learned Michelle Beadle will depart ESPN for NBC Sports with the plan for her to land eventually at Access Hollywood as co-host. — SPORTSbyBROOKS (@SPORTSbyBROOKS) May 10, 2012 According to...
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Time for some linkage again. Starting with Sports Business Daily which gauges media reaction to last night’s extravagant NFL regular season schedule release on both ESPN and NFL Network. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reviews both the Monday Night and...
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I haven’t done a sports media thoughts post in a while and there has been so much that has transpired since the last time I wrote one. As always, they’re in bullet form. Let’s do this. Just four days into...
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ESPN’s week long coverage of Super Bowl XLVI from Indianapolis begins in earnest on Monday. There will be live ESPN Radio shows all day starting with Mike and Mike (also simulcast on ESPN2), live studio programs like SportsNation, NFL32 and...
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As my computer churns away with another silly Windows Update, it’s time for a few thoughts on the sports media. They are in bullet form as always. The signing of Jim Rome by CBS Sports is a big one. As...
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This is a special Year-in-Review podcast. Keith Thibault and I look back at some of our best interviews from 2011. Over the past year, we interviewed quite a few guests and some heavy hitters in the Sports Media world. Keith...
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Lots of stuff going on here and it’s prevented me from providing links. I’ll do some now while I can. Anthony Crupi of Adweek reports that the NFL has put the kybosh on a new Thursday Night Football package until...
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04Aug
Let’s get the linkage out on this Thursday. The weekend is almost here. Here’s an interesting article and I’m watching to see how it plays out. Eriq Gardner at Hollywood Reporter writes that Comcast is suing DirecTV over “deceptive claims”...
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One of the most fun podcasts I’ve had comes tonight when Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I had the opportunity to talk to ESPN’s Michelle Beadle just after she purchased an iPhone. It was so funny. I could...
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This has become a busy night as there’s a story breaking and I will post something shortly, but to tie you over, here’s a video from Funny or Die starring Friend of Fang’s Bites Michelle Beadle. In it, she seeks...
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09Jul
Today, I was all over the place going in between two offices, heading to see a client and running through Northern Rhode Island for no good reason. But I’m trying to do some megalinkage after not being able to do...
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I couldn’t get to the Tuesday links as it got quite busy at work and at night, my boss gave me so many things to do that I didn’t finish until late. I’m trying to squeeze in some linkage here...
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On this rainy Wednesday in Southern New England, let me do some links. I hope the weather where you are is dry and sunny. I’ll start today off with John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal who says Comcast may...
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Even though I didn’t links on Wednesday, it feels I haven’t done them in ages. You’re owed a chunk of them. Here goes. Nathan Vardi of Forbes reports that ESPN basketball writer Chris Sheridan is suing New York Post basketball...
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A true Friend of Fang’s Bites, the always lovely Michelle Beadle, co-host of ESPN2′s SportsNation, will be appearing on another national stage, one that will introduce her to a totally different audience, Live with Regis & Kelly. But Michelle won’t...
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Ok, now that the Olympics bidding is over until the next round sometime later this decade, I can focus on other sports media stories and there are quite a few of them now. The Hollywood Reporter notes that embattled cyclist...
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As the rain continues to fall in the Northeast and the sun remains behind the clouds for one more day, I’ll provide some links for you. Trying to finish work before doing links and I’d like to provide these earlier,...
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For gamers, the big announcement on who will adorn the cover of the Madden ’12 NFL video game will finally come Wednesday on ESPN2′s SportsNation with ESPN Radio hack Colon Cowherd and Friend’s of Fang’s Bites Michelle Beadle. Philadelphia Eagles...
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I wasn’t able to provide links during the day and I keep accumulating sports media stories and I don’t want to get into this pattern where I can provide links Monday through Wednesday, but not from Thursday through Sunday. That’s...
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My plans to provide a full set of linkage got shot to hell when the car I was riding in got stuck in a snow bank during the ice storm in RI on Wednesday. So I spent three hours trying...
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