As I hunt down a decent computer to work on, I give you your links today.
Newsday’s Neil Best notes that SNY’s Keith Hernandez sat behind home plate for Tuesday’s game adding another wrinkle for the network. And Neil breaks news about one of the corporate sponsors for the new Jets/Giants stadium in New Jersey.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell looks forward to the National Spelling Bee.
Awful Announcing has the ESPN announcers for the Euro 2008 soccer tournament which begins next month.
Via the Big Lead, Tony Barnhart of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that the SEC has to decide now whether to bring its games in-house or to keep its current TV model of syndicating games through Raycom.
David Whitley of the Orlando Sentinel has some tongue-in-cheek programming ideas for an SEC Network.
Chris Togneri of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says former sports radio talk show host Mark Madden is keeping mum about his removal by ESPN for comments made last week about Senator Ted Kennedy. Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post opines that ESPN made the right move, but it should have been done sooner.
The Los Angeles Daily News’ Tom Hoffarth says a local sports radio station is reuniting a long time pair.
Ray Frager of the Baltimore Sun says MASN’s Amber Theoharis really had to earn her keep last night.
Some ratings news from the Sports Media Watch. First, the final weekend ratings. Next, having the 2nd largest media market deep in the playoffs will help any league and this is true for the NBA’s Western Conference Finals which are drawing very well as the Lakers and Spurs battle tonight.
Shawn Windsor of the Detroit Free Press tried to watch both the Pistons and Red Wings last night. Dave Dye of the Detroit News talks with Versus NHL sideline reporter Christine Simpson who completed her third season with the channel earlier this week.
Paul J. Gough of the Hollywood Reporter writes that NBC Sports Emperor Dick Ebersol feels the earthquake has made Communist China more open. We’ll see about that in the long run, Dick.
Ryan Faller of the National Sports Review has his list of the 12 Sexiest Sideline Reporters.
Lawrence Donegan of the Guardian in the UK writes that golf commentator Peter Alliss whom we know of his work for ABC, may be a dinosaur (Donegan’s words), but his candor is quite refreshing.
Multichannel News says Tennis Channel will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the home of the French Open with a documentary that premieres today. Sergio Ibarra of TV Week says Dish Network viewers will get an interactive look at the French Open, something us DirecTV viewers have had since last year.
Joe Favorito wonders if lacrosse can gain momentum off the good weekend it had with the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament.
From Brent Hunsberger’s Playbook and Profits blog in the Oregonian, he writes that sales of athletic shoes slowed in 2007.
That’s going to do it for now. It appears that I will be at a jobsite tomorrow so I may not be able to do the Friday megalinks. I just wanted to let you know.
