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2011 Sports Emmy Award Nominations

The Sports Emmy Nominations are out. Just released by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards will be handed on May 2 at Lincoln Center in New York. Our list of nominees is below. Best Play-by-play has the usual suspects, last year’s winner Jim Nantz, Al Michaels, Joe Buck, even Bob Costas, […]

Attempting The Friday Night Megalinks

I’m going to try to finish off the megalinks tonight while watching the NCAA Tournament. This is not guaranteed to work, but I’ll do my best. The Weekend Viewing Picks have everything you need for your TV planning. Let’s get to your links. National USA Today’s Dueling Mikes return, Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy argue […]

Let’s Do Some Mid-Week Linkage

It’s Wednesday. It means we’re midway through the week which is a good thing. It also means time for the linkage. I hope to get this done before I have an appointment so let’s get cracking. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about the NBA’s ratings increases on ESPN and TNT. Mike McCarthy at USA Today’s […]

Cranking Out Some Sunday Links

Let’s do some Sunday links for you today. Good stuff to get to. Let’s get cranking. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reports that DirecTV is rebranding FSN affiliates in Denver, Pittsburgh and Seattle. Mike writes that NFL Network hit a season-low audience for Thursday Night Football, not reaching an average five million viewers for the […]

Squeezing Out Some Tuesday Links

Well, I don’t have to rush back to another office today so I’ll provide some much desired linkage. We’ve already heard about Brett Favre this morning and I don’t want to suckered into another summer of “Will he or won’t he” again. Tired of the whole machinations and ESPN having Rachel Nichols stationed in Mississippi […]

Quick Monday Linkage

I have to be at a jobsite this morning, but I’ll give you a few links before going out. Mike McCarthy at USA Today says Tiger Woods took hits from golf analysts and reporters for dropping out of the Players Championship. At the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Jason Fry tells bloggers to look […]

Complete List of Winners At The 31st Annual Sports Emmy Awards

Last night, I gave you some of the winners of the 31st Annual Sports Emmy Awards which were handed out in New York. I garnered the info as best as I could. We now have the complete list of winners. A press release which was put on the Sports Emmy Awards website will be posted […]

Snowy Wednesday Linkage

On this really snowy day in Southern Rhode Island, I’m at home, warm, toasty, trying to find a DirecTV channel that isn’t blocked by the snow. While parts up north hardly received any snow, we’re getting walloped here in southern Rhode Island. No fun. I’ll do links while I can. Eric Fisher of the Sports […]

Friday Megalinks

My apologies for not posting after my Thursday entry. I was called away to the home office which has only one dial-up internet connection and could not post to the blog. And then I was at the Reality Fan Forum last night helping to update the Big Brother Head of Household competition so blogging last […]

Monday Night Linkage

I’ll give you some links here this evening. First, Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber praises ESPN for tackling race issues head on. Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union notes that the ratings for The Masters were down slightly on CBS Sunday. Neil Best of Newsday says ratings for The Masters on ESPN set a record […]

Some Friday Megalinks

Since I don’t have to be at the jobsite until later today and I do have some time, I’ll give you as many links as I can before I have to leave. Starting with USA Today and Michael Hiestand, he writes about the end of HBO’s Inside the NFL. The Nation’s Newspaper lists the sports […]

The Wednesday Stuffage

Time for some links on this Wednesday. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes about the changes in the ESPN production of NASCAR for this upcoming season. The Daly Planet motorsports blog talks about the lovely Wendy Venturini returning to Speed this week. Newsday’s Neil Best has Tiki Barber picking his former team to win the […]

Our Midweek Linkage

The day after New Year’s always has people dragging back to work and today is certainly no exception. So many things I don’t want to do, but we have to get back into the grind. To be honest, I would prefer New Year’s to fall on a Friday or Monday, but it only happens once […]

Some Late Wednesday Afternoon Links

I’ve checked around and we have enough links for an update. From the TV Predictions website, we find that DirecTV has added 23 HD channels including several Regional Sports Networks. Tim Lemke of the Washington Times reports in his Sports Business blog about ESPN hiring two newspaper reporters who will join its investigative unit. Ben […]

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