Time for a few more links on this Tuesday.
David Scott of the Boston Sports Media Watch promises this will be his last appearance as he goes back to book writing hibernation. David gets Fox Sports Net's side of the story as to what happened with NESN's transmission of the BC-North Carolina game on Sunday.
In his blog, Newsday's Neil Best expands on his Tuesday column which discussed WFAN's Mike Francesa doing well without former partner Chris Russo. Speaking of Chris, Neil says Russo ragged on Maggie Gyllenhaal. In other radio news, Neil reports that Don LaGreca, the great co-host of NHL Live on NHL Radio on Sirius XM will become the co-host of the Michael Kay show on 1050 ESPN Radio. Neil says Matt Millen's return to TV is just where he ought to be.
Neil links to this very good article in the Columbia Journalism Review written by Gary Andrew Poole about the state of sportswriting and its future.
Thanks to Neil for the following link via The Big Lead, Richard Prince from the Maynard Institute says Detroit News columnist Rob Parker has resigned in the wake of his question to Lions coach Rod Marinelli last month.
The Big Lead also has a look into AOL Sports trying to become a player in the online sports battle with ESPN and Yahoo.
Rachel Cohen of the Associated Press writes about Matt Millen's return to TV.
Brian VanOchten of the Grand Rapids Press doesn't want to see Matt Millen on his TV.
Lou Clinton of the 38Cliches still doesn't like the MLB Network nor Fang's Bites fav Trenni Kusnierek. There must be something LC likes. Maybe he'll like tonight's presentation of Ken Burns' Baseball documentary that originally aired on PBS in 1994.
CNBC's Darren Rovell notes that last night's Fiesta Bowl matchup between Ohio State and Texas marked the first time two schools with over $100 million athletic budgets met each other on the field. And Darren says the Chicago Cubs won't be sold anytime soon.
The Baltimore Sun's Ray Frager doesn't like one particular overused cliche.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News writes that the Fiesta Bowl did well in the Metroplex. But Barry says the game didn't do as well as in Columbus.
The Sports Media Watch says the Fiesta Bowl's rating was the best since 2006.
Richard Connelly of the Houston Press looks at the city's sports radio wars.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News hears from former ESPN2 Flex Appeal host Kiana Tom. And everyone in the blogosphere is the richer for this, I'm very serious, because I loved the show when it was on. Tom says ESPN Radio affliate KSPN has a new General Manager.
Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times reports that Screamin' Gus Johnson will replace the venerable Steve Albert on Showtime Championship Boxing.
Former Seattle SuperSonics voice Kevin Calabro is joining the staff of Seattle's ESPN Radio affiliate.
Maury Brown's Biz of Baseball looks at the new SlingMobile application for the iPhone.
Fox Sports Houston has announced it will go 24/7 starting next Monday.
That will do it for the links tonight. I have some press release action to post coming up.
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I read Poole's piece in the Columbia Journalism Review and immediately thought of the Jason Whitlock piece you referred to the other day. Whitlock was happy to aim and fire at his target; the shoot-first-and-don't-even-ask-questions route. Yet, it seemed that without denigrating or deifying the blogosphere, Poole was trying to tell readers that newspapers have to save themselves from... themselves, not bloggers.
I enjoyed what Poole had to say, yet I wondered why those who represent the traditional world point to the negative tones of many blogs without looking in the mirror with a historical context. It doesn't excuse some of the vitrol that we see in the blogosphere, but I recall reading some work from the famed early 20th-century author Jack London, in which he called for someone to take out Jack Johnson "for the white race".
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