The Saturday Linkage

I owe you some links as I couldn't do them on Thanksgiving Day nor on Black Friday. Family was in all day on Thursday and my sister brought my beautiful niece for her first Rhode Island visit Friday so that took time. Plus all the prep and clean up takes the time away from blogging. You understand. But it's time to get back to the regular schedule of blogging. I'm actually in my bed doing this so here are the links.

CNBC's Darren Rovell wonders if the Super Bowl halftime acts are too old.

Writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Dave Kindred looks at the pros and cons of cleaning up a quote for a story.

USA Today picks up an AP story in which Fox Sports Detroit lost its feed of last night's Clippers-Pistons game due to a fire in a production truck.

Steve Adams of the Quincy (MA) Patriot Ledger looks at the media wars in Boston on radio and on TV.

Gavin Keefe of The Day of New London (CT) writes that ESPN's Doug Gottlieb got the goat of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union asks what is going on with a local sports radio station that is not airing programs or games as they're scheduled.

Alan Pergament of the Buffalo News writes that the ratings for the Bills are dropping just like the team this season.

Jim Williams of the Washington Examiner talked with ESPN/ABC's Hubie Brown before last night's Heat-Wizards game.

Sarah Talalay of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has a quick sports business roundup including the unveiling of the Florida Panthers' third jersey.

Mel Bracht of the Daily Oklahoman writes that an F-bomb slipped out during the Giants-Broncos game on NFL Network.

Ed Sherman of Crain's Chicago Business has his winners and losers in sports business and media.

Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News has his "Dubious Dozen" in sports media this year.

Tom lists those who didn't make the cut in his blog.

Bill Bradley of the Sacramento Bee got an inside look at Comcast SportsNet Bay Area's productions of its 49ers and Raiders postgame shows.

Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star has a weekend primer of TV events in case you're reading this blog in Canada.

William Houston in the Truth & Rumours blog tells us how the ratings for the Grey Cup could reach the stratosphere.

William also has some suggestions for the TSN crew that will be calling Canada's version of the Super Bowl.

The Sports Media Watch notes that Giants-Broncos on Thanksgiving night was the second most watched game in NFL Network's short history.

Joe Favorito wonders if NASCAR can ever win over New York.

Joe writes the passing of Abe Pollin this week means there are fewer iconic sports owners left.

Steve Lepore of Puck The Media has NHL Network's schedule for next week.

I'll end it there for now. If anything breaks today, we'll be on top of it.