{"id":423612,"date":"2007-08-22T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fangsbites.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2007-08-22T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:45:00","slug":"wednesday-afternoon-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wednesday-afternoon-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Afternoon Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here are a few more links for you before I head home.<\/p>\n
The Sports Media Watch blog says ESPN will continue to cover David Beckham like a rock star<\/a>. Heavy hitters Bob Ley (who did play-by-play for the World Cup in the 1980’s for ESPN) and Lisa Salters have been added to Thursday’s LA Galaxy-Chivas USA game.<\/p>\n Jeffrey Marcus who writes the New York Times soccer blog has an interview with Fox Soccer Channel’s Christian Miles<\/a>.<\/p>\n CNBC’s Darren Rovell has some advice for the Big Ten Network<\/a> which is still in a minority of cable-eligible homes. Inside Indiana Business<\/a> reports that a state legislator is getting involved<\/a> in the Comcast-BTN dispute.<\/p>\n The Orbitcast satellite radio blog has a recap and pictures of the taping of XM Satellite Radio’s Baseball Confidential show<\/a> with Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter.<\/p>\n John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable magazine writes about the rebranding of the CBS Sportsline website<\/a> into CBS Sports.com.<\/p>\n The Biz of Baseball blog links to an article in the Portland Tribune that the court date for Harold Reynolds’ wrongful termination lawsuit against ESPN has been set<\/a> for early 2009.<\/p>\n Sister site, the Biz of Basketball, has a rundown of the NBA’s cable and network TV contracts<\/a> dating back to the 1950’s.<\/p>\n Following up on a story that we first gave you last week, the NFL Network has signed a deal with MyNetworkTV to produce an exclusive edition of NFL Total Access on Saturday nights during the regular season. Broadcasting & Cable’s Marisa Guthrie has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tim Lemke of the Washington Times says viewers in the Baltimore\/DC area could see Saturday’s Redskin-Ravens game on as many as four channels<\/a>.<\/p>\n This morning, I gave you the link to USA Today’s story about ESPN’s plans to air a 25 hour pregame show for the LSU-Mississippi State game later this month. Here’s ESPN’s press release<\/a> outlining its plans. Talk about overkill.<\/p>\n