Here are your links.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times writes about MLB signing an exclusive trading card contract with Topps, leaving rival Upper Deck in the lurch.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell also assesses the deal and says for the trading card companies to do well, they needs adults to buy in more than kids.
Darren says there’s little to no creativity in NBA ticket packages for the upcoming season.
The New York Daily News’ Bob Raissman says YES will be hypocritical if it goes after the Red Sox’s David Ortiz for testing positive for steroids.
From the Sports Media Journal, Ray Frager says wake him up when the NFL regular season starts.
Also from the SMJ, Southern New England media magnate Keith Thibeault has a podcast interview with New York Jets announcer Bob Wichusen.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union says Tweeting might be in Sunday Night Football’s future.
Ken Schott from the Schenectady Gazette says two traditional horse races will be heard this weekend.
Ken has some quotage from NBC’s Cris Collinsworth on the Giants and Jets.
Also getting Collinsworth quotage was the Buffalo News’ Alan Pergament.
Jim Williams from the Washington Examiner talks with Mark Cuban about the reasons why he signed the upstart UFL to be part of his HDNet programming.
John Kiesewetter of the Cincinnati Enquirer followed the NFL Films crew taping the Bengals for the latest series of “Hard Knocks” for HBO.
John has some impressions of the filming in his blog.
Ed Sherman from Crain’s Chicago Business has some local sports radio updates.
Ed laments the loss of the Arena Football League.
Brendan Bigelow of the Los Angeles Times writes about the ESPN/Twitter controversy.
Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star says the Blue Jays are beginning to fall off Canada’s radar this summer.
The Sports Media Watch looks at the ratings of three events from last weekend.
The Arena blog gets on ESPN for hiding a Tweet that it aired on SportsCenter yesterday.
Real Clear Sports has an interview with USA Today columnist Christine Brennan.
Chris Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media went to Washington Redskins training camp and found new media in full force.
I’ll end it there for now. Back later.
