If you’re back at work, this is a grind. But if you’re on vacation, I don’t want to hear about it. LOL. Anyway, time to check the links to see what’s going on.
The big sporting event this week will be The Open Championship at Carnoustie. I don’t know if anyone will be providing online coverage, but if anyone does, I’ll let you know. TNT provides the live early round transmissions starting at 7 a.m. going until about 5 p.m. ET, then taped coverage until 7 p.m. I do hope we see something online whether it be from TNT.tv or The Open’s website.
Over the weekend, we didn’t have much to speak of other than MLB on Fox, PGA on CBS, the WNBA All Star Game and the ESPY’s.
The main subject of discussion on various sports radio stations was the Andrea Kremer interview of Gary Sheffield on HBO. The interview hasn’t even aired yet, but WFAN in New York, WEEI in Boston and ESPN Radio nationally all touched on the bites. Neil Best of Newsday was the first to review it, then other writers followed. USA Today’s Michael McCarthy follows up on the discussion.
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post reviews Ralph Kiner Night.
Richard Sandomir writes about Joe DiMaggio’s Diary. That’s right. Joltin’ Joe kept a diary and it’s going up for auction. There are links to page scans from the diary in the story.
Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times has his review of the sporting TV weekend.
Ben Grossman of Broadcasting & Cable magazine says the success of last week’s streaming of the All Star Game batting practice has prompted Fox to stream more events including next month’s NFL Announcer’s seminar.
Variety magazine talks about the rise in MLB TV ratings on Fox and ESPN (be careful, there are a lot of popup windows and the site could be infected by spyware).
Oscar Dixon of USA Today has more on Disney’s deal with the WNBA.
If you think ESPN is getting too big, you may be right. It wants to build another office building on its Bristol, CT campus.
Jason Fry of the Wall Street Journal says newspapers not only have to compete with blogs, but sports leagues who have set their own rules on content. The main subject is the silly NFL 45 second rule on video clips. Once again, I’ll post the video from General John McClain of the Houston Chronicle poking fun at the silly rule.
Those are your links for now. I’ll be back later with an update.
