{"id":423453,"date":"2007-08-04T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fangsbites.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2007-08-04T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T14:20:00","slug":"some-saturday-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/some-saturday-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Saturday Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Good morning. Let’s give you a few links on this Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Let’s start with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where Dan Caesar says ESPN is helping its ratings<\/a> by continuing to show the Barry Bonds home run chase. Over to the San Antonio Express-News where Jerry Garcia gives the outline for Bonds coverage tonight<\/a>. The LA Times reports that the Bonds chase is forcing the ESPN family of networks to shuffle its schedule<\/a> for the Acura Classic.<\/p>\n Yesterday, Neil Best was blogging like crazy posting 18 times. I’ll give you a few of his entries from Friday. First is on Joe Theismann<\/a> who was unceremoniously dropped from ESPN’s Monday Night Football after last season and will just be on ESPN Radio for a few call-ins. Another mentions the fact that ESPN will continue to invite actors into the booth<\/a> for silly interviews on MNF. Neil also blogged about a new partnership between the New York Giants and Fox New York<\/a> for programming and other initiatives. And I’ll choose one more entry, this one on the New York Knicks making only one national TV appearance<\/a> this season. Thank you, Neil for making Friday enjoyable.<\/p>\n Jacques Steinberg in the New York Times writes<\/a> that sports radio station WFAN<\/a> in New York is about to hire Boomer Esiason to replace Don Imus, and that a proposed sidekick, Chris Carton has the potential to go down the same slippery slope that Imus did.<\/p>\n I keep forgetting to link to Richard Deitsch of SI.com every week. He has an interview with Dan Patrick<\/a> who will do his final shows on ESPN Radio the week of August 13-17.<\/p>\n Michael Zuidema of the Grand Rapids Press says the Big Ten Network still doesn’t have a deal with the major cable companies<\/a> as the August 30 launch is fast approaching. However, Jeff Richgels of the Capital (WI) Times says BTN is extending an olive branch to Charter Communications<\/a> in hopes of gaining carriage. Ryan Suchomel of the Iowa City Press-Citizen says Iowa fans may have to get used to see their school’s games at different days and times<\/a> so to accomodate BTN.<\/p>\n Just one race into NASCAR Nextel Cup coverage and already ESPN is making enemies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jason Schneider of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville is none too happy that ESPN is making up another list<\/a>. In the Dayton Daily News, Mark Govaki says ESPN seems to be content in making up news<\/a>. In Deadspin, Will Leitch tries to pinpoint the moment when ESPN literally Jumped the Shark<\/a>. And continuing the ESPN bashing here, Jon Caramanica in tomorrow’s LA Times writes that “The Bronx is Burning” doesn’t do justice to New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n