Now that we’re done with the Twitter part of our linkage. Let’s do the the other stories that we’re following.
Todd Spangler of Multichannel News reports that Dish Network is suing ESPN over carriage terms for ESPN Classic.
Newsday’s Neil Best recaps an appearance by Len Berman at Hofstra University yesterday.
Neil says Kansas City Star writer Joe Posnanski has left the paper for Sports Illustrated.
Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record notices that neither the Knicks nor the Nets made TNT’s Thursday Night NBA schedule.
Ken says the Knicks did make ESPN five times, but none for the Nets.
Tim Lemke of the Washington Times looks at the end of the Buick/PGA Tour relationship.
Jim Williams from the Washington Examiner says the Wizards will have plenty of appearances on national TV this season.
Jim says Comcast has added some new sports channels and shuffled its lineup to make other channels more accessible.
Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel goes into details of the Green Bay Packers’ deal with the Wisconsin Lottery.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News cannot believe ESPN’s Stuart Scott went into a semi-rant using dialogue from “The Ringer” for golf highlights.
Tom noticed that both Los Angeles NBA teams are playing on Christmas Day.
Tom chronicles his efforts in trying curling and has plenty of stuff plus pictures in a special column today. Tom has more on the curling efforts.
Bruce Dowbiggin of the Toronto Globe and Mail says The Score wants to produce the next generation of talk shows.
David Goetzl of Mediapost says ESPN is trying to conceptualize its pop-up ads on the .com website.
Joe Favorito explains why second tier sports leagues struggle to survive.
The Sports Media Watch looks at the weekend ratings.
SMW has some media news and notes.
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk tells us what happened when Fox Sports NFL insider Jay Glazer crossed paths with ESPN NFL insider Chris Mortensen.
Frank Deford has some suggestions for ESPN in his regular NPR commentary.
The Big Lead says the New York Post’s sports department may have cut off its nose to spite its face in regards to a new radio/TV and freelancing ban.
And as usual, we give you Kristine Leahy with today’s edition of The Five at WEEI.com.
That does it for today.
