Back from the jobsite, I’m now at home so I’m going to give you the Friday megalinks.
Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today, who says it’s ok for Bill Parcells to be essentially a Rent-An-Analyst for ESPN. But on the other hand, Michael McCarthy says it’s not ok.
Let’s start with the South this time and basically do a circle around the country.
Doug Nye of The State has his TV notes for the weekend. And Nye’s Best Bet is College of Charleston vs. South Carolina.
Dave Darling of the Orlando Sentinel is fed up of inane questions that are asked by many a TV reporter.
To the Houston Chronicle, David Barron says the NFL is still trying to get the Patriots-Giants game on Time Warner Cable.
The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Jay Posner likes the work of ESPN’s Ron Jaworski on Monday Night Football. In his media notebook, Posner says time is running out for the nation to see the Patriots-Giants game on the NFL Network. And here are the ratings from last week in San Diego.
John Maffei of the North County Times says ESPN will be ready if the Broncos’ John Lynch decides to retire after Monday Night’s game against the Chargers.
Jim Carlisle of the Ventura County Times writes about Stuart Scott’s battle with cancer. And in his notes column, Carlisle discusses the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame and Dick Vitale’s vocal cord surgery.
From the Los Angeles Times, Christine Daniels writes in her Sound and Vision column about both UCLA football and basketball which will be playing on Saturday.
Tom Hoffarth in the Los Angeles Daily News talks about the inaugural class of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. And in his Farther Off the Wall blog, Hoffarth goes into his weekly media notes.
John Ryan of the San Jose Mercury News says that having two NFL teams in the market prevents fans from seeing the entire picture.
Paul Christian of the Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin writes that the local NBC affiliate gets a Christmas present this Sunday with the Vikings in primetime.
Ed Sherman in today’s Chicago Tribune writes about a nice Christmas present for Bears fans.
Ray Frager of the Baltimore Sun writes that ESPN did plenty of reporting of the Bill Parcells-to-Miami story, without hearing from its employee, Parcells.
Laura Nachman writes about 76ers announcer Marc Zumoff broadcasting his 1,000th regular season game, plus Stuart Scott’s return to the air tonight.
The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick advises Knicks fans to get on owner James Dolan, not coach Isiah Thomas. The Post’s Justin Terranova writes that New York NBA fans will get a double dose of Kobe Bryant this holiday weekend. And Terranova has five questions for Giants analyst Carl Banks.
The New York Daily News’ Bob Raissman says Dolan had a chance to watch his Knicks in action the other night, but passed.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times writes about Time Warner Cable rejecting arbitration with the NFL Network.
Neil Best of Newsday profiles legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf who’s doing double duty on morning drive, doing sports updates on ESPN Radio in New York and on WABC. And in his blog, Best has more from Warner. Neil also suggests to WFAN’s Mike & the Mad Dog that they start pumping in some talk to get younger listeners. Finally, from Neil, he says getting live look-ins on NFL.com for NFL Network games is better than nothing.
Nancy Marrapese-Burrell of the Boston Globe talks with Celtics TV announcer Mike Gorman about the team’s resurgence.
Up to Canada, Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star talks about a new look at the Score.
That’s going to do it. We still have quite a few features to give you including Primetime Viewing Picks, Weekend Viewing Picks, NFL Picks, College Basketball Viewing Picks, NFL Viewing Picks and a whole bunch of other stuff. Keep it here.
