Let’s go to the links this morning.
Starting with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, he writes that the ranking of South Florida at #2 in the BCS got the attention of the Fox NFL Sunday crew.
From his Four DVR’s, no waiting blog in the Houston Chronicle, David Barron gives a wrapup of the Sunday NFL pregame shows.
Ed Sherman of the Chicago Tribune says the WBBM radio call of the Minnesota Vikings game-winning field goal against the Bears yesterday did not even mention if it was good.
NBC Sports gives us some quotes from last night’s Football Night in America.
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post has some criticism for TBS’ Chip Carey.
David Scott of Boston Sports Media Watch writes about the Dallas Cowboys media department allowing a goofy person to ask questions to Bill Belichick and Tom Brady during the postgame press conference.
Terry Foster of the Detroit News writes this past weekend was the first time he really felt the impact of the Big Ten Network/Comcast dispute. From the Detroit Free Press, John Lowe speaks with the Big Ten Network’s Thom Brennaman who says this is not a down year for the conference despite what some are saying. The Centre (PA) Daily Times says this Saturday’s Penn State-Indiana game is slated for ESPN.
Also from Terry Foster, Detroit Tiger center field Curtis Granderson, who did an excellent job for TBS during the League Division Series, has now been tapped by ESPN to do a bunch of shows this week.
Dusty Saunders of the Rocky Mountain News says he prefers listening to the ESPN Radio crew of Dan Schulman and Dave Campbell over the TBS announcing team of Chip Carey, Tony Gwynn and Bob Brenly doing the National League Championship Series. Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star also enjoys the ESPN Radio teams on both LCS’.
Michael Zuidema of the Grand Rapids (MI) Press has high hopes for ESPN’s E:60 newsmagazine which debuts tomorrow.
Brett Dawson of the Lexington Courier-Journal reports that College Gameday will be at the University of Kentucky campus this Saturday.
Jay Adams of the Macon (GA) Telegraph says the Monday Night Football game on ESPN tonight between the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons might be worth watching.
Warren Gerds of the Green Bay Press-Gazette says the Packers helped NBC last Sunday in the ratings.
If you were watching last night’s game between Seattle and New Orleans, you know there was a delay because NBC’s overhead camera fell and almost hit two players.
Phil Swann of TV Predictions.com reports that DirecTV has added six new channels in HD including three Fox Sports Net regional sports networks.
Those are your links for now.
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