Ken from the Fang's Bites blog with your media links today. As we speed into the Fall season (it begins on Monday), this is our last official Megalink session of the Summer. Yes, our mindset of Summer is gone, but officially, Fall begins on Monday. We have a lot of good links for you today … Continue reading The Last Friday Megalinks of the Summer
Globies Back on CSN, The Genius Of Manny
Yeah, that was Dan Shaughnessy on the 6:30 edition of CSN's Sports Tonight program last night. As Gary Tanguay explained in his blog yesterday, CSN's partnership with the Boston Herald (they were a sponsor of New England Sports Tonight) has expired, and that partnership was what had kept Globe writers off the show. Tanguay says that Tony … Continue reading Globies Back on CSN, The Genius Of Manny
A Lazy Friday Megalink Session
Ken from the Fang's Bites blog with your Friday megalinks. I include "lazy" in the title because I'm feeling a bit lazy today, but you don't want to know how I'm feeling so let's get to your links. As always, we start with the Weekend Viewing Picks. Lots of football action this weekend. In the … Continue reading A Lazy Friday Megalink Session
Late Friday/Early Saturday Megalinks
Ken from the Fang's Bites blog. First, my apologies for the tardiness of this post. Too many factors led to me putting this up late, but the links are here for your perusal this weekend. With Tropical Storm Hanna trudging up the East Coast, this will give you plenty of reading. Let's start as always … Continue reading Late Friday/Early Saturday Megalinks
Entercom Announces New WEEI Weekend Lineup
With the recent sacking of the Mustard and Johnson Saturday morning program, Entercom has now announced their new schedule for the weekends: Beginning Sunday, September 7th, Michael Felger takes over as host of NFL Sunday, the pre-eminent Patriots football pre-game show, from 9:00am to noon. Felger will be joined by two regular contributors to the program, New … Continue reading Entercom Announces New WEEI Weekend Lineup
Your Labor Day Weekend Megalinks
Ken from Fang's Bites here as usual on this Friday. As we head into a three day weekend, it's time to give you your Friday megalinks. As always, we go into the Weekend Viewing Picks first. College football has already begun with some games played on Thursday. Among the highlights for Saturday, USC takes on … Continue reading Your Labor Day Weekend Megalinks
Herald Loses Another, Horrigan To Depart
The baseball beat on the Boston Herald has taken another blow, as Jeff Horrigan will be leaving and looking for a non-journalism job in Milwaukee, where his wife is from. Scott's Shots has the details. It's the latest in a series of losses for the Herald, which earlier this season could boast of one of … Continue reading Herald Loses Another, Horrigan To Depart
Jay Mariotti Coming To Boston? (Updated)
Please, no. Chicago columnist Jay Mariotti abruptly resigned his position with the Chicago Sun-Times this week, to "pursue other opportunities." At the same time, he proclaimed newspapers a dying industry and stated that sportswriting has become "entirely a Web site business." (Which he might be correct about.) This morning, Chicago Tribune media columnist Phil Rosenthal ended … Continue reading Jay Mariotti Coming To Boston? (Updated)
Last Olympic-Sized Friday Megalinks Until 2010
Ken from the Fang's Bites blog with your Friday megalinks once again. This marks the final weekend of Olympics action and it's really time for the Games to end. I enjoyed the Games really up until Wednesday when I started to get burned out on the Mary Carillo puff pieces, the tape delay of track … Continue reading Last Olympic-Sized Friday Megalinks Until 2010
Tuesday Quick Hits
The ever-expanding empire of WEEI is on the move again, this time to Maine. From the Portland Press Herald: The owners of WJJB, a Portland sports talk radio station known as the Big Jab, will begin simulcasting Boston sports talk station WEEI in southern Maine on Sept. 1. WJJB's owner, Atlantic Coast Radio, has finalized … Continue reading Tuesday Quick Hits
