Our Monday Linkage

On this Cyber Monday, let's do the links as many of you return to work from a four day weekend. For those of you who had to work on Friday, I hope you had a very good weekend. Let's do the links.

Starting with the Sports Business Journal, Austin Karp and John Ourand report that the Cowboys are the primetime darlings of the NFL.

The SBJ has the results of its annual reader poll on sports television.

USA Today's Michael Hiestand writes that ESPN will be using its talent for multiple college bowl games in December.

Sean Leahy from USA Today's The Huddle blog has ESPN's Suzy Kolber playfully saying she's ready to interview Tom Brady tonight after running after him in Week 1.

Dan Levy of On The DL writes in the Sporting News that you have to consider the source when a story is reported.

CNBC's Darren Rovell says despite last week's car accident and the constant stonewalling, Tiger Woods ads are still running all over the place.

The backlash against Tiger Woods continues. The New York Post's Phil Mushnick says Tiger's squeaky clean image is all manufactured.

Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union provides the Week 13 NFL TV schedule which includes more trouble for New York's Capital Region.

Tom Luicci of the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger says either ESPN or ESPN2 will pick up Saturday's West Virginia-Rutgers game.

Robbi Pickeral of the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer previews ESPN's 10th annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

Tom Jones from the St. Petersburg Times talks about CBS' gushing over Tim Tebow and the Tiger Woods story as part of his review of the weekend.

Hal Boedecker of the Orlando Sentinel says TV news is jumping all over the Tiger Woods story.

Hal adds that Woods' PR strategy may be all wrong.

Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News says get ready for 3D TV.

This is the story from the UK that Barry is referring to.

Mediaweek UK reports that ESPN has struck a deal to air classic Rugby World Cup matches in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

WRTV in Indianapolis reports that a longtime tennis event is leaving.

Ed Sherman from Crain's Chicago Business looks at what people are saying about Tiger Woods.

And then Ed says Tiger doesn't owe us anything. I disagree. The faster Tiger nips it in the bud by making a clearer statement than the cryptic one on his website, the faster this story goes away. Otherwise, the more he hides and stonewalls the police, the more TMZ is going to dig and find more embarrassing stuff. Tiger's Kremlin approach doesn't work in this day and age. It worked in the 1960's, but with the internet, blogs, TMZ, 24 hour news networks, ESPN, ESPNews, Golf Channel and other outlets looking for info, this is not going away.

Dusty Saunders of the Denver Post says two local sports personalities make themselves heard more than others.

Benjamin Hochman of the Post gives thumbs up to Bill Simmons' NBA book.

Tom Hoffarth from the Los Angeles Daily News has the sports calendar for this week.

Steve Harmon of the Contra Costa (CA) Times says John Madden is among 13 people who will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame.

Chris Zelkovich in the Toronto Star gives TSN high praise for its Grey Cup coverage yesterday.

But Bruce Dowbiggin of the Toronto Globe and Mail feels TSN only did OK.

In Truth & Rumours, William Houston says TSN did well in a rather bizarre Grey Cup game.

Stuart Miller of Multichannel News looks at the niche sports networks that try to bring fans closer to the game where ESPN cannot.

R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel says the man responsible for developing 3 of Fox's sports networks is leaving the company.

Deadspin says TMZ was all over the Tiger Woods story in a big way.

Sports Media Watch has some sports media news and notes.

The Big Lead says ESPN has been mysteriously silent on the BCS.

Chris Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media says the media is on a Tiger hunt this week.

Chris discusses how difficult it is to do stats for a high school football game.

Chris suggests that it's not all that bad to click on the ads on blogs. Yes, I agree. Please do me the favor by clicking on my ads that you see on the left. They aren't much, but they do help me to keep this blog going so please click on them every once in a while, especially when you see the NESN.com newsfeed. That is directly paid to me.

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk says Bears QB Jay Cutler pushed away an NFL Network mic after a bad loss to the Vikings on Sunday.

The great Steve Lepore of Puck The Media feels the Hotstove on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada is no longer fun to watch and I agree with this. CBC has to get over itself and bring back Al Strachan.

And we end with Kristine Leahy hosting The Five on WEEI.com.

That's it for now. Back later with more stuff.