It’s a rainy Monday in Southern New England. Certainly nothing compared to what’s going on in Minnesota and having gone through a 100 year flood earlier this year, my sympathies go out to those bailing out or having to leave their homes. I hope things get better real soon.
Let’s do some linkage on this back to workday for most of you.
Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the Sunday NFL pregame shows picking on Brett Favre, the Vikings and the Cowboys.
From the Sports Business Journal, John Ourand says the NHL is close to a breakthrough on local video streaming rights for online and mobile devices.
Steve Keating from Reuters has NBC Sports Emperor Dick Ebersol expecting a knock out, dragged out fight for the US rights for the 2014/2016 Olympics.
SportsGrid notes that the Washington Post’s Cindy Boren (among many others) had her Twitter account hacked yesterday.
All Access says the ESPN Radio affiliate in Pittsburgh will flip to Radio Disney by the end of the year.
Pat Summerall and John Madden are among the 2010 Inductees for the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Appropriate that Pat and John go in together.
Phil Swann of TV Predictions says Dish could ditch Fox this week and that includes local affiliates, Fox Sports Net channels and FX.
To the New York Post and Dr. Doom and Gloom where he goes after CBS, NBC, ABC, Mike Francesa, George Steinbrenner, NFL pregame shows and the New York Communist Party. Ok, maybe not the Communist Party, but he’s in rare form today.
Deena DiBacco of the Sunbeam (NJ) News says a Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia anchor visited a local school to talk about his career.
Laura Nachman has the winners of this year’s Mid-Atlantic Emmys which includes sports.
Michael Klein of the Philadelphia Inquirer says a legendary sportscaster had to miss being handed a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mid-Atlantic Emmys.
Neal Zoren of the Delaware County Daily Times says the Philadelphia Phillies are a major ratings success this season.
Jerry DiPaola of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review states that CBS’ Bill Cowher misses coaching.
David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun says there’s no doubt that the NFL rules primetime TV.
David also reviews CBS’ production of the Browns-Ravens game.
The Beckley (WV) Register-Herald talks with the local native who now works for NBCSports.com and won $40,000 on Jeopardy.
Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times reviews the weekend in televised sports.
David Dorsey of the Fort Myers (FL) News-Press looks at how NFL teams are losing fans from the gate to the couch.
Ed Sherman of Crain’s Chicago Business says a local TV show plans pregame coverage of tonight’s Packers-Bears game.
Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Sun-Times has praise for a new ESPN promo for Monday Night Football.
Scott Dochterman of the Iowa City Gazette says College Gameday could be coming to the Hawkeye State later this season.
Dusty Saunders at the Denver Post notes that CBS sent its top NFL announcing team to Denver for the Colts-Broncos game.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News has your SoCal sports calendar for this week.
Jason Vondersmith of the Portland (OR) Tribune talks about College Gameday heading to Eugene this weekend.
Bruce Dowbiggin at the Toronto Globe and Mail writes that more sports could be returning to over the air television.
Sports Media Watch has a few news and notes.
SMW says CBS’ SEC game between Alabama and Arkansas drew excellent numbers.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media has four things he looks forward to and four things he fears with HBO’s 24/7 Penguins/Capitals.
Emmett Jones of Sports Business Digest has your first look at NFL-branded vending machines. No, really.
Joe Favorito says maybe some chaos is good for the New York Jets.
For a while, I thought we were not going to have too many links today, but I managed to find some for you. Press releases coming up next.
