Last Friday, I touched on Ron Borges coming off a two month suspension for plagiarism. Borges was found to have copied a football notes column from a Spokane, Washington newspaper. As a result, the Boston Globe suspended him for two months, prohibiting him from making any TV or radio appearances. But apparently, it didn’t prevent him from writing for other outlets such as Oscar De La Hoya’s own Golden Boy Promotions. Dave Scott from Boston Sports Media Watch has details of Borges working the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight for De La Hoya’s company. To me, that’s sidestepping your suspension. I’ve been suspended from school. Do I go to another school so I can work? I know others have been suspended from work for a day or two or even possibly a week. I don’t know of anyone who would circumvent the suspension and work for other outlets in that time. Maybe I’m naive.
Some links today.
Over to New York and the talk of the town is the return of the Texas Con Man, Roger Clemens. The man who will only be with his team on the days he pitches and then be home in Houston on off days is the subject of plenty of discussion on sports stations WFAN and ESPN Radio. Neil Best of Newsday has a good story on Suzyn Waldman’s call of Clemens’ return on WCBS and the discussion on both the FAN and ESPN Radio. Best has more on his Newsday blog.
Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News is skeptical of Clemens’ intentions.
CBS Sports has reworked its deal for the US Open Tennis Championships. The last two years of its current contract were thrown out and the new deal will take effect immediately. It will run through 2011. CBS will pay less and increase its coverage to about 50 hours of the Grand Slam tournament plus other USTA events leading up to the Open.
Michael Hiestand of USA Today has a look at the TV ratings from the weekend sporting events.
And HBO forced YouTube to pull a copy of the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight. It was up until last night.
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