If you’re on my main page, if you scroll below, you can take a look at the three part Videos of the Week which have videos from the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games and also the promos for the 2008 Olympics which as we know from the promos are just five days away. They were a lot of work to do and I hope that you at least take a gander at each entry.
Here are some links for you on this Sunday.
Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant says NBC is putting together an Olympic effort to bring the games home to viewers.
The Los Angeles Times’ Robert Strauss talks about the digital side of NBC’s coverage.
Rick Bentley of the Fresno (CA) Bee also looks at NBC’s extensive coverage of the Olympics.
Charles Elmore of the Palm Beach Post says NBC’s coverage of the Games won’t be all live.
John Rash of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune says the Olympics don’t have the viewing power that they once did.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News put together a day-by-day viewing guide of the Olympics.
Caitlin Heaney of the Evening Sun (PA) says sports including the Olympics have taken over her TV this summer.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times writes that Cablevision has not come to an agreement with NBC to carry the whopping internet portion of its Olympics coverage. Richard also writes about Mark Cuban’s bid to buy the Chicago Cubs.
Newsday’s Neil Best discusses NBC’s coverage of the Olympics in Communist China. In his blog, Neil mentions that SNY’s Keith Hernandez made a big save in the booth and prevented another potential visit by the PC police.
The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick makes it clear that he’s not a fan of YES’ Michael Kay.
Jim Williams of the DC/Baltimore Examiner talks about the local media coverage of former Washington Redskins Art Monk and Darrell Green being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend.
Ken Schott of the Schenectady Gazette talks about the Jets being on local TV for the NFL exhibition season.
Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record asks are you ready for some football?
Joe Favorito looks inside the media coverage of the Manny Ramirez trade from both the Boston and Los Angeles perspective.
Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News tells us TBS is getting ready for the MLB Postseason ad sale push.
Peter Larson of the Orlando Sentinel profiles ESPN.com’s college basketball guru Andy Katz.
Jackie Majerus of the Bristol (CT) Press discusses ESPN’s expansion of SportsCenter into mornings.
In the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jonah Goldberg says ESPN honored the 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute by John Carlos and Tommie Smith for the wrong reasons.
Multichannel News reports that FSN will air four Elite XC Mixed Martial Arts specials starting in September.
That’s going todo it fo now. I’ll have the Week Ahead coming up late tonight.
