Back to work today after a nice three day weekend. Most of us have another three day weekend as the final holiday of the holiday season, New Year’s Day is on Friday. I like it when New Year’s Day falls either on a Friday or a Monday. It means you can take a few days to recover from overdoing it on New Year’s Eve. Most of us overdo it on New Year’s Eve, whether it be partying, staying up late and/or drinking. I’ll be doing all three on New Year’s Eve. Looking forward to it.
Anyway, let’s do the links.
Starting with Reid Cherner of USA Today, he writes that ESPN was all over the Urban Meyer retire/unretire story.
David Lieberman of USA Today explains the whole situation between Fox and Time Warner Cable.
David Goetzl in Mediapost writes that you can access NBC’s live streaming coverage of the Winter Olympics, provided your cable and satellite provider have signed up.
Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center has his top ten sports media stories of the year.
As part of the New York Times ongoing series reviewing the Decade in Sports, Richard Sandomir looks back at the dog-and-pony show that was the Congressional Baseball Steroids Hearings.
Brian Stelter of the Times says TMZ has confirmed that it will launch a sports gossip site in 2010.
Pete Dougherty in the Albany Times Union says the New York Jets’ quest to make the playoffs will be a primetime affair next Sunday.
Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record says by moving the Jets to primetime, it opens up the New York metropolitan area for the double NFL doubleheaders on CBS and Fox on Sunday.
Laura Nachman looks at the year in Philadelphia sports media.
In his review of the weekend in TV sports, Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times says ESPN got it right when it covered the Urban Meyer story.
Tom also reviews the Fox production of the Bucs-Saints game.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News feels the Bengals-Jets in primetime was a bad joke come true.
In Crain’s Chicago Business, Ed Sherman looks back at the year in Chicago sports business and media.
Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune tracks some sports media moves among the Trib and the Sun-Times.
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says thanks to the New York Football Giants, the Green Bay Packers got to breeze into the NFL playoffs.
Dusty Saunders of the Denver Post looks forward to seeing an HBO Sports re-airing of a 1995 documentary on the American Football League.
Brian McInnis of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin writes that ESPN is happy with its inaugural Diamond Head Classic college basketball tournament.
Bruce Dowbiggin of the Toronto Globe and Mail says the World Junior Hockey Championships are a perfect fit for TSN.
Chris Zelkovich in the Toronto Star says Raptors voice Matt Devlin is getting more comfortable in his second year in the role.
The Radio Business Report discusses some executive changes at ESPN Radio.
The Sports Media Watch looks at the biggest sports media scandals of the last ten years.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media reviews NHL Network’s coverage of the World Junior Hockey Championships.
The Daly Planet NASCAR TV blog says the Fox-Time Warner Cable dispute is going to hit SPEED viewers if threats to pull channels are true.
Furman Bisher, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has some interesting details on the Tiger Woods story. Thanks to The Big Lead for the link.
Ben Cohen at Deadspin reviews The Best American Sportswriting of the Decade.
The Sports Hernia blog notes that Bob Costas had on his best Jedi look last night.
That’s going to do it for now. I’ll do an afternoon update if the links warrant. See you throughout the day.
