http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com Watching The New England Sports Media Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:20:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time once again to provide the Friday megalinks. Lots of links to get to. Don't forget to check out the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and primetime viewing. To the links. National One story that's developing this afternoon. Pro Football Talk goes after ESPN Boston's Patriots blog for plagiarizing word for word one ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/another-friday-megalinks-edition The latest radio ratings are out, and 98.5 continues to surprise with their solid gains in the sports radio market. WEEI is doing just fine, though, actually moving up a bit from 5.2 in September to 5.3 in October. The station is fourth overall on the chart while WBZ-FM, 985TheSportsHub went ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/weei-holds-steady-98-5-continues-rise-fox-dumps-butch-stearns If part of your life is defined by the Boston sports experience as is mine, then any year involving both a Lakers and Yankees championship can't be completely good. Sure, if the other guy wins, that means our guy doesn't, but it's also very much about who that other guy ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/week-log-another-little-souvenir-of-a-terrible-year I hate to do this, I really do, but I think Joey Porter needs to be defended a little bit here... This morning's articles, and in sports flashes and reports over the air since yesterday afternoon have, with a couple of exceptions, painted Joey Porter's conference call with Boston reporters yesterday ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/was-joey-porter-baited-by-the-boston-media The Celtics got their most strenuous test of the young season last night, holding off the Minnesota Timberwolves last night 92-90 to stay perfect on the season at 6-0. Frank Dell’Apa has the Celtics unable to find and offensive flow for most of the game, but able to get the hoops when ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/celtics-fight-off-t-wolves Fang's Bites has learned from multiple sources and The Big Lead is reporting this as well, that former Boston Globe Red Sox beat writer Gordon Edes will join ESPN Boston after the World Series. For his part, Edes did not confirm or deny the story when contacted by The Big ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/developing-gordon-edes-to-espn-boston After an unscheduled day off from posting yesterday, here's the top articles from today. Pedro Martinez is no goat - Gerry Callahan, Dan Shaughnessy and Steve Buckley all wrote articles on Pedro Martinez's start in tonight's game six of the World Series. Callahan reminds us again that he's a pretty damn columnist when he ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/wednesdays-best I already did the complete morning links today, and thought I'd try something out by giving you what I think are the top five must-read articles posted this morning. Here they are, in no particular order: 1) Patriots were big winners - Albert Breer's look at how the Patriots established themselves as the ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/this-mornings-top-five-articles Comcast SportsNet announced this morning the official hirings of Sean McAdam, Tom Curran, Art Martone, Sherrod Blakely and Joe Haggerty as they relaunch their website and partner on-air with NECN to provide broadcast and internet coverage of Boston sports. CSN's online presence at CSNNE.com will now feature the following lineup: Veteran MLB ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/comcast-sportsnet-relaunches According to former Boston Globe NBA writer Marc J. Spears, Rajon Rondo and the Celtics have agreed to a 5-year, $55 million extension. The Celtics made it 4-for-4 on the season with their 97-87 win over Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets at the TD Garden last night. Julian Benbow says that ... http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/11/celtics-get-win-rondo-gets-deal