Let’s do the Tuesday links. I had to spend the first part of the day at the home office which is never fun. Now I’m back in my regular office, I can do some linkage.
From Monday’s edition of the Sports Business Daily, ESPN.com’s Bill “Captain Blowhard” Simmons discusses his Twitter suspension with John Ourand.
Writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Todd Adams, the sports editor of the Fayetteville (NC) discusses what newspapers can do to build on their coverage to make them stand out from other news sources.
The Associated Press reports that Los Angeles Clippers announcers Ralph Lawler and Mike Smith were back on Monday following a one game suspension.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell says the Charlie Weis Notre Dame contract won’t change big money college coaching deals.
Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the ratings of some of the events from the weekend.
USA Today picks up an Associated Press story in which Erin Andrews’ alleged stalker pleaded not guilty in court on Monday.
Matthew Futterman of the Wall Street Journal writes that ESPN Deportes will offer next year’s World Cup in Portuguese in an attempt to offset those who might to Univision’s Spanish language broadcasts.
Thanks to Neil Reynolds of BBC.co.uk for linking to one of my NFL ratings posts. Nice to see we’re getting some linkage from international sites.
The Inside Track at the Boston Herald has fun with the Bill Simmons Twitter suspension.
Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News feels it’s very strange for Giants owner John Mara to complain about flying to Denver for a Thanksgiving Night game for NFL Network.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union updates the college football TV schedule to include the ABC/ESPN regional selections for New York’s Capital Region.
Laura Nachman talks about a new show premiering on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia next week.
Keith Groller of the Allentown (PA) Morning News, who’s mourning the death of his beloved family dog, writes about the local sports radio station picking up one of the heated high school football rivalry games on Thanksgiving Day.
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald writes that the University of Miami refused to cooperate with ESPN’s upcoming 30 for 30 documentary on the football program, but will still offer an on-campus screening of the film.
Sarah Talalay of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes that the Florida Panthers are giving local companies the opportunity to sponsor their practice rink.
And Sarah adds Miami’s American Airlines Arena is celebrating its 10th anniversary by holding a contest in which the winner will get four tickets to every event at the facility in 2010. I like that.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News says Cowboys fans get a bad memory replayed on NFL Network this week when the channel replays the infamous Leon Lett game from 1993.
Barry says for this week’s NFL TV schedule, the best game is left for last.
David Barron from the Houston Chronicle says there was a big audience locally for the Titans-Texans game.
The Cincinnati Enquirer’s John Kiesewetter writes that the Bengals last minute collapse against the Raiders on Sunday drew huge ratings in the Queen’s City.
Ed Sherman of Crain’s Chicago Business looks at the Sporting News/Sports Business Journal Top 25 Football Announcer list and other issues.
Tim Cronin from the Southtown (IL) Star profiles ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen who’s still looking for ways to innovate sports.
Austin Knoblauch of the Los Angeles Times has the video of Ron Artest’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Some breaking news from the Times, Diane Pucin says Angels broadcasters Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler have been let go.
T.J. Simers of the Times defends Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler. Thanks to the Big Lead for the link.
George Schroeder of the Eugene (OR) Register-Guard writes that it was only right to move this year’s Oregon-Oregon State Civil War game to Thursday night for ESPN as it was will have the nation’s undivided attention.
Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star says the CFL is turning into a ratings gorilla.
William Houston of Truth & Rumours writes that it’s the Saskatchewan Roughriders who are the TV darlings of the CFL.
Mark Miller of Yahoo! Sports says ESPN NASCAR analyst Ray Evernham wants to return to the racetrack.
The great Steve Lepore of Puck The Media is scratching his head over Versus’ NHL ratings.
Chris Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media investigates how the new SEC TV contracts with CBS and ESPN are hurting small businesses in Athens, GA.
Dave Kohl looks at the mini-controversy involving the Bears, NBC and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Joe Favorito says having the MLS Cup in Seattle is setting up for soccer’s future success in the Pacific Northwest.
The Sports Media Watch says the NFL on CBS doubleheader on Sunday saw significant ratings gains.
In addition, SMW says NFL regional coverage on Fox also saw ratings jumps.
But SMW notes that Sunday night’s Eagles-Bears game went down in the ratings compared to the week before.
SMW says the college football tripleheader on ABC did well.
And SMW says has various ratings news and notes.
We’ll end with Kristine Leahy and today’s edition of The Five at WEEI.com.
We’re done. Press releases later tonight and possibly a late night linkfest after that. We’ll see.
