We have enough for an update tonight. Let’s get to it.
A few things from Neil Best of Newsday in his blog. First, Neil says for all of the Knicks games that Marv Albert has called, he’s never had to endure an effort in futility as the one on Thursday against the Celtics. Neil also looks at Verizon Online’s features from the NFL for Green Bay-Dallas. Finally, Neil says the CBS public relations department was creative on promoting the network’s post-NFL programming for this Sunday.
From the Sports Media Watch, we get the weekend ratings predictions. And we get the final ratings for Notre Dame football on NBC. Needless to say, they were awful.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News writes in his blog that ESPN Classic will have programming focusing on daredevil Evel Knievel who passed away today. Here’s Evel’s official website.
Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated gives us his Media Power Rankings for November. And Deitsch talks with the outstanding Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski about his new blog.
Darren Rovell of CNBC asks readers if perception is reality over who runs MLB and the NFL.
Maury Brown over at the Biz of Baseball website reports that subscribers to MLB.com’s Offseason Package will be able to watch its coverage from the Baseball Winter Meetings in Nashville next week.
Bill Jordan of the sister website, Biz of Football, writes that Fox is selling Super Bowl XLII spots for $3 million per 30 second spot.
David Barron of the Houston Chronicle writes in his Four DVRs, no waiting blog about his visit to the ever-growing ESPN campus in Bristol, CT.
Multichannel News gives us a Versus’ press release about the Comcast sports channel airing a live extreme cagefighting event next week.
That’s it until the Saturday morning links. I’ll be working on the Amazing Race Asia Episode 2 recap so check for it later.
