This week is a nightmare for me. It looks like I won’t be able to give you the Friday megalinks until that evening and I won’t be at work starting from Thursday midday until Monday morning. I’ll try to update the blog when I can. This happens when one of my employees goes to surgery and I have to do his work until he returns. Nightmare, I’m telling you.
Neil Best of Newsday recaps the first class inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame last night. Best adds a post on why the NFL did not flex the Giants-Bills into primetime on December 23. And Neil writes that despite what he said about Sports Illustrated back in October, the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell suggests some sports phrases that should be trademarked. And Rovell says Mike Ditka found that running a charity was harder than he thought. Finally, Darren has his predictions for 2008.
Mike Lucas of the Capital (WI) Times writes a story about ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt who will speak at this weekend’s commencement exercises at the University of Wisconsin. Adam Mertz of the Times writes that some students are wondering why Van Pelt was chosen in the first place.
Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated says the NHL should find a way to get back on ESPN.
RCN Cable has picked up the NFL Network for its Digital Vision Plus service.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Bob Wolfley writes about the average age of the Packers and the flex scheduling for Weeks 16 and 17 in the NFL.
Rob Laird of the Kankakee (IL) Daily Journal writes that Mediacom cable wanted to show the Bears-Redskins game through WPWR last Thursday, but was not allowed.
ESPN has extended ABC’s affiliation with the Indianapolis 500 for one more year.
Carrie Watters of the Arizona Republic says Glendale, Phoenix and Scottsdale are all competing to be media hosts during the Super Bowl.
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