Nice to have Friday come along. Long week for me, hope it was a good week for you. Plenty of stuff to link to today. Let’s get to it.
First, the Boston Globe’s Susan Bickelhaupt has a look at the new NBA TV deal, but she also has a blurb on a sexual harassment suit filed by a make-up artist. The suit alleges that Jay Crawford and Woody Paige made lewd comments and made unwanted advances to her when she worked for the ESPN2 show, Cold Pizza. The show has since become First Take. This could become a major story. But if Harold Reynolds was fired for sexual harassment without any recourse, why haven’t Crawford and Paige? I wonder.
USA Today has more on that story. In the nation’s newspaper, Michael Hiestand has a sarcastic look at the future of the NBA on TV. He also has a story on the college football announcing teams for ESPN.
In this morning’s New York Daily News, Bob Raissman wonders as the New York Yankees go down in flames, will the ratings for YES follow suit? And if they do, what will YES do?
Richard Sandomir in the New York Times was in the audience for a screening of the upcoming HBO documentary on the Brooklyn Dodgers and its departure from the New York borough for Los Angeles.
As I’ve said in the past, Phil Mushnick of the New York Post has made me laugh for some of his off-the-wall opinions. But lately, I’ve been agreeing with him. I know that he can now sleep at night knowing that I agree with him, but I find this week’s column on the media finally waking up on the WWE right on.
Laura Nachman from the Bucks County Courier Times has her weekly Sports TV column and she talks about Jimmy Kimmel hosting the ESPY Awards.
Last week, Nachman wrote about the documentary on the fabled Palestra arena that debuts on ESPN Classic next month. This week, Bob Cooney of the Philly Daily News follows suit.
I enjoy reading Ray Frager in the Baltimore Sun. Today, he does a bunch of bullet points and his first and foremost point is on the ESPN sexual harassment suit mentioned earlier in this entry.
In the Baltimore/DC Examiner, Jim Williams talks to former Oriole Cal Ripken about his ex-team. Cal works for TBS this Sunday on the All-Star Game Selection Show and during the postseason.
Dave Darling in the Orlando Sentinel marks the 20th anniversary of Sports Radio with the beginning of WFAN and he talks to Chris “Mad Dog” Russo who got his start in Jacksonville and Orlando.
In the Miami Herald, Barry Jackson talks about changes coming to sports radio in that market.
Bob Wolfey of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says ESPN was all over the Bucks picking Chinese Yi Jian-lian in last night’s NBA Draft.
This had been rumored for a while, the NFL has decided to fold NFL Europa.
Judd Zulgad in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune says the media got it wrong when trying to gauge Kevin Garnett trade rumors.
Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune says there’s been some drama going on over at WMVP in regards to host Dan McNeil.
Over to the Houston Chronicle, David Barron says former Rocket Calvin Murphy returns to the area airwaves.
John Maffei of the North County times says the San Diego college sports radio announcing picture is finally coming into focus as we approach football season.
In the LA Daily News, Tom Hoffarth also marks the 20th anniversary of WFAN in New York by talking to former KNBC-TV anchor and current nighttime host, Steve Somers.
Some late news from Neil Best in his Newsday blog (he’s writing while on vacation!), all roads are pointing to a possible Don Imus return to CBS Radio and WFAN. He’s definitely coming back for the 20th reunion to be held this weekend.
That’s it for now. I’ve got the Top 20 Moments on WFAN in the next entry.
