Time to give you some links on this Monday.
USA Today’s Michael McCarthy says Versus is interested in tracking pucks during NHL coverage next season.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times has details of the ESPN/Tennis Channel contract with the US Open. John Ourand and Daniel Kaplan of Sports Business Journal have a story on the new US Open rights deal as well.
Neil Best of Newsday writes that he was happy to have gone through with his moratorium on listening to sports radio last week.
The Sports Media Watch says overnight ratings for the Celtics-Cavs Game 3 broadcast on ABC Saturday night were very low. And the SMW is not happy with ABC’s Celebrity Watch during the Lakers-Jazz game yesterday.
Dusty Saunders from the Rocky Mountain News feels TNT’s Doug Collins remains the best NBA analyst on TV.
Here are notes from TNT’s coverage of the San Antonio-New Orleans game last night.
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post feels the Mets’ Seven Pack ticket plan is a fraud.
Maury Brown of the Biz of Baseball has comments from TBS’ Chip Carey and Ron Darling as the game between the Yankees and Cleveland was being rained out.
Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times looks back at the weekend in televised sports.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell is amazed that the Wii gaming system has a Major League Eating video game. Darren looks at the ranking of sports monnikers in the listing of most popular baby names.
Sports Business.com says the US Olympic Committee is planning a new TV channel, but it won’t debut in time for the 2008 Olympics.
Greg Tarr of TWICE says Dish Network has added several HD channels including Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and New England and ESPNews.
