The Sunday Cruisin' Links

As I get ready to remove some 800 million leaves off my lawn and roof that fell during last night's rainstorm here in Southern New England, I'll do some linkage for you.

Hmmm. Is MLB jumping the gun a bit here? Thanks to @blankman1031 on Twitter for the tip.

Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe writes that TNT's Charles Barkley is opening campaigning for an NBA GM job.

We prepare to say goodbye to Neil Best of Newsday as we'll no longer have access to his columns and blog posts after October 28. He writes that New Yorkers will have to exercise their remote fingers as the Yankees and Giants will be playing simultaneously tonight.

Neil says tonight is going to be a crazy, but great night for New York sports fans.

The New York Daily News' Bob Raissman pleads with the networks not to employ the Pitch Tracks to show up the umpires. Really, Bob?

Raissman says the rain means an unwanted head-to-head matchup between the Yankees and Giants tonight for Fox. Had ALCS Game 6 been played last night and the Angels had won, there would have been Game 7 tonight anyway, so what's the problem, Bob?

Bill Gallo of the Daily News previews this week's ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on the Muhammed Ali-Larry Holmes fight in 1980.

Phil Mushnick from the New York Post continues to hate on everything and everybody today.

Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union has the college football TV schedule for this week.

John Seip of the York (PA) Daily Record profiles Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal who got his start at the paper.

Nathan Summers of the Daily Reflector (NC) writes that MASN and the local Suddenlink carrier are locked in a carriage dispute.

Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times goes behind the scenes with the ESPN Thursday Night Football crew which includes the always lovely Erin Andrews.

Tom also profiles the on-air talent on the Thursday Night Football series.

Hal Boedecker of the Orlando Sentinel writes that readers would like to have NFL Network on their local Bright House systems.

Paul Christian of the Rochester (MN) Post Bulletin says former Timberwolves GM Kevin McHale will be on NBA TV and TNT aplenty this season.

David Martin of the INDenver Times says baseball would do itself a favor if it got away from TBS and its scheduling for the postseason.

Scott Taylor from the Deseret (UT) News chronicles College Gameday's visit to Provo, UT yesterday.

Mike Sunnucks of the Phoenix Business Journal says fans of the Coyotes get some good news and bad news in regards to media coverage.

Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times writes that Bob Griese had to apologize two times for his insensitive taco remark yesterday.

Bill Dwyre of the Times feels baseball spreading out the postseason at the behest of the TV network is hurting the product.

Artie Gigantino from the San Francisco Examiner gives his best and worst of the NFL TV insiders.

Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star says there will be more sports channels for Canadians to follow.

From EPL Talk, we find that Fox Soccer Channel last week retained the US rights to English Premier League games.

Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News says FSC will hold onto the rights for the next three seasons.

The Sports Media Watch says last night's rainout of ALCS Game 6 will turn out to be a big win for Fox.

SMW has its weekend ratings predictions.

Joe Favorito says Don Cherry and ugly military uniforms were a big hit in raising money.

Chris Byrne at Eye on Sports Media has a behind the scenes picture of one of the NFL on CBS production crews.

And we're getting these up earlier than yesterday. Enjoy your Sunday. Expect Sunday NFL pregame quotage up later in the afternoon.