Been so busy lately that it’s been effecting the blog. Sorry about that. This weekend was planned for me again, so I really couldn’t post too much around the personal events. It also meant I couldn’t watch any of The Masters® or any baseball. The only things I could watch was The Amazing Race and Mad Men so you could tell what type of weekend it was.
One of these days, I’ll be able to have a normal weekend where I can post what I like.
Anyway, you don’t care about my life or problems, you want links and that’s what I’ll provide.
Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at CBS’ coverage of The Masters®.
Mike Foss of USA Today’s Game On has old fossil Fox’s Tim McCarver railing against social networking.
Writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Eric Deggans of the Tampa Bay Times says journalists can lead the way to change Augusta National’s sexist policies.
Joe Posnanski writes his last column for Sports Illustrated.
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy who freely admits who he’s supporting in the Stan Van Gundy/Dwight Howard conflict that arose last week.
John Consoli from Broadcasting & Cable writes about Fox handing over a majority of its Saturday primetime hours this year to Fox Sports.
Toni Fitzgerald of Media Life Magazine says Fox Sports will fill Saturday primetime with existing properties such as college football, MLB, NASCAR, NFL preseason and UFC.
John Ourand of Sports Business Journal explains how Fox Sports came to program a majority of Saturday nights for the network.
Mike Reynolds at Multichannel News reports that Dish Network has picked up the Univision Sports channel.
Sam Thielman of Adweek says NBC will go all out to measure viewing habits on all platforms during the Summer Olympics.
Nat Ives of Advertising Age reports that the poorly promoted NFL Magazine will be shuttered after four issues.
Karen Hogan of Sports Video Group looks at TBS’ plans for Sunday Afternoon Baseball.
The Big Lead explores ESPN kicking out the Colonial Athletic Association from BracketBusters college basketball event after the conference signed a new contract with NBC Sports Group.
Timothy Burke at Deadspin has a screengrab of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball crew with $78 worth of the new Texas Rangers 2 foot long hot dogs.
Boston Sports Media Watch celebrates 10 years. It’s a great site and Bruce Allen has been very kind to me over the years.
To Phil Mushnick at the New York Post who enjoyed a Tiger-fee Masters.
Ken Schott from the Schenectady Gazette has the NHL Conference Quarterfinal schedule.
Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner looks at the Broadway play on Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Bob Molinaro at the Virginian-Pilot feels ESPN is being petty by booting the CAA out from BracketBusters.
The Tampa Bay Times’ Tom Jones gives his two cents on the the weekend in sports television.
Jessica Lipscomb and Victoria Macchi of the Naples (FL) Daily News says the host of an Outdoor Channel/ESPN2 fishing show was killed in a plane crash last week.
Dan Caesar at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells us to get ready for a lot of hockey.
Dusty Saunders at the Denver Post says CBS got the job done at The Masters®.
Kelly Lyell of The Coloradoan has Colorado State University disappointed about the end of the mtn.
Scott D. Pierce of the Salt Lake Tribune says it’s no surprise of the demise of the mtn.
Mark Anderson of the Las Vegas Review-Journal writes that the fall of the mtn. was just a matter of time.
Dan Hayes of the North County Times says the San Diego Padres ownership picture is becoming much clearer and that should lead for the formal approval of the team’s rights deal with Fox Sports.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News has the sports calendar for this week.
Raju Mudhar of the Toronto Star puts a lid on two traditional Original Six NHL rivals who won’t be in the postseason.
Sports Media Watch discusses Fox Sports and the Olympic Trials in primetime plus the end of the mtn. in a news and notes post.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media mostly likes what he sees with NBC Sports Group’s scheduling for the NHL Conference Quarterfinals.
Joe Favorito talks about the latest NHL Playoff beard promotion, continuing activation for the Geico Gekko and promotion for the Family Circle Cup.
And we’re done now.
