Tuesday Stuff

I went to a jobsite today so I wasn’t in during the morning. Time to do some links now.

Let’s look at the ratings from the weekend. First, Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the ratings for selected events. Second, Paulsen with the Sports Media Watch blog has more of an in-depth look. After two weeks of the NFL season, CBS is enjoying higher ratings for the AFC while NBC’s and Fox’ ratings are down. And MLB on Fox with the Yankees-Red Sox ebbed a downward trend. And the Sports Media Watch blog says the ratings for the first leg of NASCAR’s Chase for the Nextel Cup were surprisingly low. In Boston, Susan Bickelhaupt of the Globe writes that Boston watched the Patriots over the Red Sox as both played at the same time Sunday night.

Dennis Wyatt of TV Sports Daily says analysts like Emmit Smith, Michael Smith, Deion Sanders, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley do African-Americans a disservice by not speaking properly. Wyatt himself is African-American. Very thought provoking article.

Bob Raissman in today’s New York Daily News says Fox’ Pam Oliver captured the mood on the New York Giants’ sidelines on Sunday.

Newsday’s Neil Best writes about a calmer Tom Coughlin on the Giants sidelines didn’t go unnoticed by the Fox production truck and ESPN’s Chris Mortensen being way off on the Eli Manning will he/won’t he start story on Sunday. In his blog, Best previews a story on tonight’s Real Sports on HBO. Best also name drops ESPN’s Mike Tirico from a conference call Monday.

John Ryan of the San Jose Mercury News has an entry in his Morning Buzz blog about the Real Sports segment on Eagles QB Donovan McNabb.

Brian Vanderbeek in the Modesto (CA) Bee says he enjoys watching college football.

In his “Globetrotting” blog, the Chicago Tribune’s Phillip Hersh praises ESPN for airing the entire the Women’s World Cup live.

ESPN’s Karl Ravech is the subject of an article of his alma mater’s school newspaper, the Binghamton University Pipe Dream.

Alan Pergament of the Buffalo News says a legendary city sports anchor was not allowed to say goodbye to his viewers.

Natalie Finn of E! Online reports that MSNBC’s and Football Night in America’s Keith Olbermann is back at home after having surgery for a ruptured appendix. Get well, Keith.

The Burlington (NC) Times-News picks up a story from Barry Smith of the Freedom News Service about the dispute between Time Warner and sports channels, NFL Network and MASN.

Congratulations to NESN’s Don Orsillo. He will be working for TBS during the MLB postseason as reported by the Providence Journal’s baseball writer extraordinaire Sean McAdam.

That’s it for now. Primetime Viewing Picks next.