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It's Your Friday Megalinks

Here we are with the Friday megalinks once again. For your weekend viewing, the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Fours will be on CBS and ESPN respectively. CBS Sports has the glamor matchups with all four men’s number one seeds intact. UCLA and Memphis will tip off at 6:07 p.m. with North Carolina taking on […]

Wednesday Night Links

I’ll give you some linkage this evening. Earlier today, I was listening to the Red Sox-A’s game through MLB Gameday Audio and noticed that Joe Castiglione was broadcasting solo for the first two innings. Because partner Dave O’Brien was working the Blue Jays-Yankees game for ESPN2, this was one of the games where the Shaw’s […]

More Monday Meaty Links – Big Ten Network Close to Deal with Comcast

Let’s give some more links this afternoon. We’re beginning to hear that the Big Ten Network is close to a deal with Comcast. John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal is reporting a deal is imminent. Mike Snyder of the Detroit Free Press tries to find out more. Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel […]

The Tuesday Linkage

Here are some links for you today. From USA Today, Michael Hiestand has a look at some of the ratings from the weekend. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times talks about the humor surfacing from former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy as he’s getting more comfortable on ESPN and ABC. The New York Daily […]

Double Yoi! The Monday Links

I’m dragging as I worked into the wee hours of the morning. I’m even dozing off as I write so I’ve got to finish the links and do some work. Let’s get started. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Bob Knight’s first appearance on the ESPN family of networks was just like his press […]

Our Regular Friday Megalinks

Let’s do our weekly Friday megalinks for today. We begin as always with Michael Hiestand of USA Today. He writes about ESPN’s hiring of Bob Knight, MMA coming to CBS and the son of one of the famous Hanson Brothers (Slap Shot) not realizing his dad’s fame until he was 13. Richard Deitsch of Sports […]

The Friday Morning Megalinks

At 12 p.m., I lost my internet at work, but luckily, I did not lose anything so I can still provide you with links. I’m at home now at 4;38 p.m. Here’s what I started with at 10:18 a.m. and I left off with William Houston’s story in the Toronto Globe and Mail. I’ll pick […]

Some Thursday Links

Let’s give you some links as we can see the weekend at the end of the tunnel. Gotta get there first. First, Jarrett Bell of USA Today has a story on the growth of interest and coverage in the NFL Scouting Combine. Neil Best of Newsday links to the above mentioned story in his blog […]

Quick Wednesday Update

Still dealing with work issues, but I can break away to give you some links today. First, John Ourand of the Sports Business Daily breaks the news that Dish Network is moving the NFL Network to a less popular tier, cutting its subscriber base by 4 million. Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News […]

Tuesday Night Links

Let’s give you some linkage this evening. From Neil Best of Newsday, he reports that WFAN’s Yankees beat reporter Sweeny Murti is doubling as Yankees beat reporter for SNY. And Neil has the NHL on NBC flex game for March 2. Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union says the game NBC passed over will […]

Post Holiday Links

Back to work for some of you. For those of us who have worked yesterday, it’s just another day of the grind. Some FYI. I’m working on a feature story that I’ll be bringing to you in the next day or two. You can look for that here either later tonight or first thing tomorrow. […]

Some More Friday Links

I’ve been searching for stuff tonight and found a few things I can give you. From TV Week, Julianne Smolinski says DirecTV will offer its NASCAR Hot Pass PPV service in high definition. And Sergio Ibarra has the national sports TV ratings for the week ending February 10. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News says the […]

The Friday Megalinks Are Here

Have had to deal with a few work-related issues today so the Friday megalinks are late, but I’ll give them to you in one fell swoop. Starting as usual with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, he discusses Fox Sports’ coverage of the Daytona 500 this Sunday. Let’s do the links starting in the East, then to […]

The Thursday Linkage

Happy Valentine’s Day. I’ll do some quick links here now then do an update later today. Bill Doyle of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette talks with TNT’s Doug Collins about the Celtics’ chances in the playoffs. Pete Dougherty in the Albany Times Union has the Spring Training TV schedule for the Mets, Yankees and Cubs […]

More Tuesday Links

I’ll give you some more links for tonight. Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union gives us the Yankees TV Spring Training schedule on YES. And Pete has a funny “Separated at Birth” comparison regarding Brian McNamee. The Sports Media Watch blog notes the coverage of the Congressional Steroids Hearings today on the network news […]

Some More Wednesday Links

Now that the Congressional Steroid Hearings are over, I can say that was a tremendous waste of time. Some Congressmen talked for talking’s sake. Others had no idea that quoting Jose Canseco wasn’t the best of ideas. Certainly some interesting developments like discovering Roger Clemens’ nanny actually placed him at Canseco’s house for a barbeque […]

Steroids Hearings Stuff

If you want to see or read what’s going on with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings as both Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee are getting grilled, I can provide you with some links. First, streaming video can be seen at CNN.com, USA Today.com and C-SPAN.org. In addition, there are live running blogs […]

Our Midweek Links

Time to give you some more links this morning. David Scott of Boston Sports Media Watch has reaction from ESPN to the Chris Berman videos that were available on YouTube. David says those videos have since been taken down. If you didn’t have a chance to grab them, they are pretty much gone forever. USA […]

Quickie Tuesday Night Update

Here we go. Let’s do some links tonight. The Sports Media Watch has your TV ratings from the weekend. And we have some idle notes for you from Paulsen. Laura Nachman reports that Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia will have live coverage of the Congressional Steroids Hearings. Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News writes in […]

Press Release Galore

Time to give you some press releases that were in the Fang’s Bites’ e-mail inbox. First, from Comcast SportsNet New England, the Congressional Steroid Hearings featuring Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee will be shown live on Wednesday: COMCAST SPORTSNET TO PROVIDE LIVE COVERAGE OF STEROID HEARINGS BURLINGTON, MA – Comcast SportsNet will provide live coverage […]

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