Ok, I’ve seen enough news to warrant an update tonight. Let’s go.
Starting out with Neil Best of Newsday who broke the news that Rick Reilly is leaving Sports Illustrated. This comes a day after SI announced Dan Patrick would join the magazine and host his website. In addition SI had said Reilly would be a regular guest on Dan’s radio show. I guess this won’t be the case anymore. And The Big Lead site announces that Reilly heads over to ESPN starting in June of next year. The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir also has a story on Reilly’s departure from SI for ESPN.
The Sports Media Watch blog reports that the American League Championship Series on Fox is gaining viewer momentum with Game 5 on Thursday being the most watched baseball game of the year. And in a mild surprise, Paulsen writes that TNT has promoted Reggie Miller to its top announcing NBA team joining Marv Albert.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell says he thinks the deal offered to Joe Torre by New York Yankees management was a good one. Many however, would disagree with him.
University of Michigan Athletic Director Bill Martin is coming out swinging against Comcast and its anti-Big Ten Network ads. The Evening Sun’s (PA) Jessica Milcetich has more on Comcast’s upcoming 5% rate hike in PA which the company says is to offset increased channel capacity. Of course, the lineup does not include the Big Ten Network.
Jerry Garcia of the San Antonio Express-News has his weekly Saturday “What to Watch” column and he writes that the NLCS on TBS did not capture the country’s imagination. Also from the Express-News comes a story from William Pack who writes that San Antonio is a key battleground city in the NFL Network-Time Warner Cable dispute.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times-Union writes in his blog that there are too many off days in the League Championship Series and I have to agree with him. Dougherty also writes about the Yankees being angered at ESPN for airing its conference call on Joe Torre live despite setting rules against airing it live.
Steve Lannen of the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader writes about fans gathering at the University of Kentucky campus getting ready for ESPN’s College Gameday on Saturday.
From the network that made high stakes poker popular comes news that ESPN will air the High Stakes Golf Tour starting this Sunday.
D.K. Wilson in the Chicago Sports Review reviews ESPN’s E:60 newsmagazine. Like other reviews I’ve read, this one is not pretty.
John Ryan of the San Jose Mercury News writes that FSN Bay Area and the Sharks have lifted the Center Ice blackouts of 10 games that won’t be shown locally, but carried by out of town broadcasters, the first of which comes on Monday.
FSN Ohio says it will carry 70 regular season Cleveland Cavs games.
Phil Swann of the TV Predictions.com website says Dish Network has picked up the NHL Network in HD.
That will conclude the links for tonight. I’ll have some Saturday morning links on Saturday plus NFL Picks for Week 7.
