{"id":423963,"date":"2007-09-18T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fangsbites.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2007-09-18T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T20:10:00","slug":"tuesday-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tuesday-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"
I went to a jobsite today so I wasn’t in during the morning. Time to do some links now.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at the ratings from the weekend. First, Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the ratings for selected events<\/a>. Second, Paulsen with the Sports Media Watch blog has more of an in-depth look<\/a>. 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<\/a>. In Boston, Susan Bickelhaupt of the Globe writes that Boston watched the Patriots over the Red Sox<\/a> as both played at the same time Sunday night.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>. Wyatt himself is African-American. Very thought provoking article.<\/p>\n Bob Raissman in today’s New York Daily News says Fox’ Pam Oliver captured the mood<\/a> on the New York Giants’ sidelines on Sunday.<\/p>\n Newsday’s Neil Best<\/a> 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<\/a> on tonight’s Real Sports on HBO. Best also name drops ESPN’s Mike Tirico<\/a> from a conference call Monday.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brian Vanderbeek in the Modesto (CA) Bee says he enjoys watching college football<\/a>.<\/p>\n In his “Globetrotting” blog, the Chicago Tribune’s Phillip Hersh praises ESPN<\/a> for airing the entire the Women’s World Cup live.<\/p>\n ESPN’s Karl Ravech is the subject of an article<\/a> of his alma mater’s school newspaper, the Binghamton University Pipe Dream.<\/p>\n Alan Pergament of the Buffalo News says a legendary city sports anchor was not allowed to say goodbye<\/a> to his viewers.<\/p>\n Natalie Finn of E! Online reports that MSNBC’s and Football Night in America’s Keith Olbermann is back at home<\/a> after having surgery for a ruptured appendix. Get well, Keith.<\/p>\n The Burlington (NC) Times-News picks up a story from Barry Smith of the Freedom News Service about the dispute<\/a> between Time Warner and sports channels, NFL Network and MASN.<\/p>\n Congratulations to NESN’s Don Orsillo<\/a>. He will be working for TBS<\/a> during the MLB postseason as reported by the Providence Journal’s baseball writer extraordinaire Sean McAdam.<\/p>\n That’s it for now. Primetime Viewing Picks next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to a jobsite today so I wasn’t in during the morning. Time to do some links now. Let’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42084987],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n