| BLOG NAME |
WEB ADDRESS |
| The Big Lead |
thebiglead.com |
| The Big Lead reports Orlando
Sentinel Columnist Jemele Hill
has “inked a two-year contract worth an estimated $400,000 [with ESPN].
Sources tell us she’ll be writing for the increasingly-irrelevant
Page 2, have a column in ESPN the Magazine and appear regularly on the tube.” |
| Hockey Buzz |
hockeybuzz.com |
| Howard Berger writes there are two areas
the NHL can improve upon, “a) allowing the widespread use of composite
sticks, which continue to be the most unreliable single piece of equipment
in the history of professional sport, and b) the deployment, for the second
year in row, of an unbalanced and unfulfilling schedule.” |
| Deadspin |
deadspin.com |
| Deadspin has what it's calling
an internal memo from George Bodenheimer to ESPN employees, in which
he writes that to commemorate the record "MNF" rating, "We
will be offering a complimentary 'MNF' coupon good toward the purchase of
food or drink in any of our Connecticut-based cafeterias." |
| Pro Football Talk |
profootballtalk.com |
| Pro Football
Talk writes, “As
you might have noticed lately, the site is really taking off. We're
gaining more and more acceptance in the mainstream press, we're popping
up on radio shows throughout the country, and our traffic has been through
the roof this season.” |
| SportsBiz |
thesportsbizblog.blogspot.com |
| Mark writes, “In a record
year for MLB by any number of measures, MLB's 20 national sponsors spent
a record $300 million behind baseball in 2006. That's $700 million less
than football from only one less sponsor. If that doesn't tell you the relative
place football holds in the national consciousness, well, I don't really
need to add anything.” |
