Again, apologies for the herky jerky schedule for linkage. Haven’t been able to sit down and do them as I’ve been busy. I’ll do some for you now.
The Nielsen Wire blog says the ratings for the World Cup in the US has increased by 68% over the 2006 event and a combined 8.6 million people watched USA-Algeria on ESPN and Univision.
Sports Business Daily says semi-funny man Jerry Seinfeld (when he isn’t complaining about Lady Gaga) invaded the SNY booth for half of the Tigers-Mets game last night.
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch speaks with the man who broke the Big 12 realignment and also looks at ESPN’s announcers for the World Cup.
Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports says an Algerian soccer player slapped a female journalist after his team’s loss to the United States in the World Cup yesterday. Classy move.
Dan Levy from On The DL interviews Ian Darke who called the USA-Algeria game for ESPN.
Dan transcribes the interview at the Sporting News’ Sporting Blog.
Fanaticos has Andres Cantor’s radio call of Landon Donovan’s goal that put the US into the Knockout Round of the World Cup.
Eric Olson of the Associated Press writes that ESPN’s Erin Andrews is not saying what her next career move will be as she approaches the end of her contract.
Stephen Wilson of the AP reports that the International Olympic Committee has decided to delay the bidding for the US TV rights for the 2014/2016 Games until next year due to the fragile state of advertising.
Milton Kent at Fanhouse says Tiki Barber has been let go from his Today show gig. He wasn’t renewed at NBC Sports earlier this year. Barber has had a tumultuous year after leaving his wife for a network intern.
Steve Krakauer of Mediaite writes that the First Lady of the National Football League, Jane Skinner, a.k.a. Mrs. Roger Goodell, announced her departure from Fox News and television today.
Stuart Levine from Variety says the offspring of two famed sports TV producers have formed their own production company which will produce sports and entertainment content.
Jon Lafayette of Broadcasting & Cable says the ESPY Awards will have co-presenting sponsors plus a whole slew of new ones for this year’s live telecast.
John Eggerton of B&C reports that AT&T is pressing MSG Network and MSG Plus to provide their HD signals to its U-Verse service.
R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News writes that golfer Phil Mickelson will be starring in a new pay per view and video on demand special on July 1.
Steve McClellan of Adweek says upfront ad sales for NFL and college football games are going rather swiftly and could be done soon.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell says John Isner who won the World’s Longest Tennis Match today at Wimbledon already had a sponsorship deal with a sports drink company.
Darren says the New York Stock Exchange stopped trading Wednesday for the USA-Algeria World Cup match.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reviews Seinfeld’s appearance on SNY.
Ken Schott from the Schenectady Gazette says Saratoga Race Course will have 10 horse races televised on MSG Plus this summer including the famed Travers Stakes, meaning it will not be aired on ESPN this year.
Pete Dougherty at the Albany Times Union says Wednesday was an epic sports day.
Pete says ESPN received a very good rating for the USA-Algeria match.
David Zurawik from the Baltimore Sun says the Charm City finished second of all markets for USA-Algeria.
Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog says the District was 4th for USA-Algeria.
Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner speaks with ESPN’s Jay Bilas about the NBA Draft.
Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times didn’t like how ESPN played hopscotch with the John Isner-Nicolas Mahut match yesterday.
Mel Bracht from the Daily Oklahoman says ESPN is adding a salary cap expert to its NBA Draft coverage tonight.
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel enjoyed listening to Ian Darke’s call of yesterday’s USA-Algeria game on ESPN.
Jim Whymer of the Port Huron (MI) Times Herald profiles a local native who’s anchoring sports in West Virginia.
Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star says there’s been a major shakeup at one of the local sports radio station.
The Sports Media Watch says ESPN has selected the Washington-Atlanta game for its Monday Night Baseball matchup meaning Stephen Strasburg will once again be on national television.
SMW has various news and notes.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media reviews last night’s NHL Awards Show.
James Land of LAX News looks at how college lacrosse will get more TV coverage in the years to come.
We’ll end it there for now.
