{"id":423515,"date":"2007-08-11T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fangsbites.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2007-08-11T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T15:50:00","slug":"saturday-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/saturday-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"
A few links to give you this Saturday. Let’s start with the regular Saturday morning media columns.<\/p>\n
First in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dan Caesar talks about some changes in the Gateway City’s sports radio scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n Barry Horn in the Dallas Morning News says former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin is talking Fox Sports Radio<\/a> about doing a show with that network.<\/p>\n In the San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Garcia gives you some tips to watch for during the NFL exhibition season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ashley Fox of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about former Eagle wide receiver Ike Reese moving to the TV booth<\/a> to analyze preseason games.<\/p>\n Let’s give you a couple of links to the blogosphere.<\/p>\n From The Big Lead blog, Bob Costas and the New York Times’ William Rhoden square off<\/a> on Barry Bonds.<\/p>\n Paulsen in the Sports Media Watch blog looks at last year’s NFL preseason TV ratings numbers<\/a> on the national outlets. He does not take the local telecasts into account. Exhibition football does do well nationally which is why the networks like broadcasting the games especially in primetime. A quick aside, nice to see CBS trot out Gus Johnson and Solomon Wilcotts for last night’s Buffalo-New Orleans tilt.<\/p>\n TV Week’s Deputy Editor Chris Purcell talks to NBC’s Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli and play-by-play announcer Al Michaels<\/a> about the upcoming season and their preparations for the games.<\/p>\n In his New York Times soccer blog, “Goal”, Jeffrey Marcus looks at ESPN’s obession with David Beckham<\/a>. And Beck’s brief 18 minute appearance at the end of the Galaxy-DC United game on Thursday drew record ratings<\/a> for ESPN.<\/p>\n