The links are here. Let’s get to them.
Newsday’s Neil Best has a short review of the Boomer and Carton in the Morning show on WFAN. And he says he prefers ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown.
ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reports that the NFL is investigating how Fox got hold of the Patriots’ spy tape from Week 1. Fox aired it on its Sunday pre-game show.
In USA Today, Michael Hiestand writes about NBC fine-tuning Football Night in America.
CBS Sports says the NFL Today beat Fox NFL Sunday for the second straight week.
Over to the Sports Media Watch blog where Paulsen notes that this past weekend, the Yankees-Red Sox helped Fox in the ratings while the NFL was down for the second straight week.
Rick Kissell of Variety says the NFL Sunday Night game outpaced the Emmy Awards.
Jim Williams in the Examiner has his weekly Good Line/Bad Line column.
David Barron of the Houston Chronicle has his latest blog entry on Mike Tirico and the ratings for the Texans-Panthers game.
SI’s Richard Deitsch talks with comedian Artie Lange from the Howard Stern show.
Neil Rubin of the Detroit News has a story about FSN Detroit play-by-play man Ken Daniels who’s in his 10th year calling Red Wings games.
Brian Koonz of the Danbury (CT) News Times says Charter Communications has picked up ESPNU just in time for this Saturday’s Pittsburgh-UConn game.
Michael Klein of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about Stephen A. Smith going national on ESPN Radio.
Scott Kleinfeld of the Ravens 24 x 7 website has his review of the Monday Night Countdown show on ESPN.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says the U of L Cardinals are playing Saturday afternoon on Yom Kippur because ESPN Plus is picking up the game. Louisville officials say attendance could be down because of it. Really? Are they sure about that?
That’s it for now. I could be back later with an update.
