0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/13/2007
Let’s give you a few links here. Starting with CBS Sports and its ratings for the PGA Championship, the network received the 5th highest rating for the tournament since 1986. The other four? They all had Tiger playing for the win as well. CBS has had the rights for the PGA Championship since 1991. And […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/16/2007
Let’s give you some Sunday links just before we head back to work on Monday. The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir picks up Neil Best’s Newsday story on Gary Sheffield’s HBO interview that will air on Tuesday. Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News also looks at the Sheffield interview. And in his Sunday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/11/2007
Looking at some of the websites around the country to get more links for you. The ratings for the sporting weekend show a downward trend for events like the NBA Finals, PGA Tour and the Belmont Stakes, all of which had lower numbers this weekend. Sports Media Watch has the overnight ratings from both Saturday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/1/2007
Ok, new month. Let’s do the Friday links. Lots of them today as usual. Starting off with USA Today, Mike McCarthy has Fox’s Tim McCarver getting on the Yankees for not starting Roger Clemens against the Red Sox this weekend. I usually don’t like McCarver, but I do have to agree with him on this. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/23/2007
With the NBA Draft Lottery over, Boston Celtics fans are wondering what they did to deserve 21 years of bad luck. Twenty one years goes back to the last time the Celtics won an NBA Championship and fans were hoping last night’s lottery would be the beginning of the end of two generations of discontent. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/22/2007
I’m still sad over the replacement of Jerry Trupiano from the Red Sox Radio Network. I’m one of those Red Sox fans who don’t like change and I grew accustomed to listening to Joe Castiglione and Trup every year. Last season, I started to hear inklings that he could be replaced and I was hoping […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/10/2007
Old school NHL fans (like me) will remember when NBC and CBC ran a cartoon feature in-between periods explaining the nuances of hockey. It was a short called “Peter Puck” and intermission host Brian McFarlane would introduce the cartoons. Peter taught us about icing, offsides, tripping, checking, etc. The idea of Peter Puck was for […]
