T-Wolves announcer Kevin Harlan is "expected to sign"
with Turner Sports this week. Harlan, who has called Wolves
games for nine years, would leave that position and do
"approximately" 35 games for Turner. Harlan also works NFL
and NCAA basketball games for CBS (STAR TRIBUNE, 3/12).
...The Angels have added KMRZ-AM as one of the club's
affils, giving it coverage in Riverside and San Bernadino
(CA) counties (Angels)....WPOP-AM in Hartford has signed
with the PGA Tour Radio Network. It will provide coverage
of 12 events, and gains the exclusive right to broadcast the
Greater Hartford Open (HARTFORD COURANT, 3/12)....WFAN's
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo and Mike Francesa could "soon be
competing against each other on separate TV stations."
Russo will host "Game Day" on WCBS-TV on Sunday mornings
during the upcoming NFL season, while "sources say" Francesa
has signed to host WNBC's Sunday morning NFL preview show,
which the station will air despite losing NFL rights (N.Y.
POST, 3/12)....For the first time since it debuted eight
years ago, ESPN's Sunday Night MLB Game of the Week "does
not have a visit to a different city each week." Montreal,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, K.C.,
Minnesota and Oakland are absent, the most "no-shows by far
in the series' history" (BASEBALL WEEKLY, 3/11).
ONLINE NOTES: CBS SportsLine announced that Michael
Jordan will conduct an online chat on AOL, Friday at 6:00pm
ET. The chat can be accessed through AOL's Sports Channel
or with the keyword "CBS SportsLine" (CBS SportsLine).
...New Century Network, a consortium of newspaper web sites,
was "dissolved" on Tuesday (N.Y. TIMES, 3/11).
