http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com Watching The New England Sports Media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gordon Edes has his first post up at ESPNBoston.com today: Back where I belong New England is my home, baseball remains my game, and after being away, I am even more persuaded that there is no better place to talk, write, blog, tweet, text, chat and care about baseball than right here, ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/gordon-edes-officially-in-at-espnboston-com Let's do the Friday megalinks as we steam into Thanksgiving holiday week. Lots of links to get to so let's not waste any more time. The Weekend Viewing Picks have what's in store for college football, college basketball, NFL, NASCAR and plenty of other sporting and primetime viewing picks. To the links. National We're ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/time-for-the-friday-megalinks So another Friday is finally here (was it me, or was this a LONG week?) and I've got another edition of the top ten from this morning's sports stories. Consider this one a periodic credit report - Chad Finn is going positive this morning, giving out props in his Friday media column. Comcast ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/the-friday-top-ten Yes, I hurled all manner of verbal abuse at my TV on Sunday night and, yes, my wife walked out on me for the last 13 seconds. In fact, she got so flustered that she forgot to take our youngest with her, leaving him to ask to no one in ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/nov-19 Frank Dell’Apa says that despite the margin of victory for the Celtics last night (109-95) the Celtics never appeared completely certain of themselves. Robert Lee has the road-weary Warriors, who only dressed eight players, worn out in the end. Mark Murphy has Rajon Rondo picking up the Celtics after a sluggish first half. Bill ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/celtics-wake-up-in-second-half-vs-warriors A couple of quick programming notes:  The Instigators Returns to NESN The Instigators presented by Cadillac Village of Norwood returns for its second season on Thursday, November 19th at 6:00 pm. The Instigators is an Original NESN Entertainment (ONE) production that was first introduced last December. The weekly show is hosted by ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/instigators-returns-comcast-offers-more-celtics-on-demand  Things appear back to normal on the written side, I'm still on the sports radio blackout, and will likely be all week... Be sure to check out the latest Dan Snapp column on Patriots Daily: Beholden to None. Albert R. Breer has a look at the Patriots continued struggles in the red zone, ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/red-zone-red-light-for-patriots The media is a strange, yet pretty predictable group. they're almost always going to go against the tide, trying to buck popular opinion. This means that nationally, where most people loath and despise Bill Belichick, writers and columnists are coming out and supporting the Patriots coach and his decision to go ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/still-too-much-noise That's something very few people are doing today, as they attempt to discuss the perhaps the worst loss (right up there with the Giants Super Bowl) of the Bill Belichick era. I'm keeping it short and simple this afternoon, even as I duck out on listening to any sort of sports radio ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/making-sense As we wait for that huge storm to come up the East Coast from North Carolina and Virginia, I'm just waiting for the rain and wind this weekend. Anyway, let's provide the sports media stories for today. But first, for the weekend sports including college football, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL, ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/the-calm-before-the-storm-friday-megalinks