SportsNewser | TV Biz The NBA: Where Good Ratings Happen By Noah Davis on Feb. 18, 2011 - 11:44 AM There’s plenty of good news heading into the weekend’s NBA All-Star Game. The league sports a group of great young stars. The game itself is in Los Angeles, which makes everything better. And the ratings continue to be ...
SportsNewser Jim Gray’s Terrible No Good Year Continues By Noah Davis on Feb. 18, 2011 - 11:21 AM Jim Gray, still trying to wash off The Decision stink, was supposed to spend the weekend working the Northern Trust Open in Pacific Palisades, Calif. for the Golf Channel. Yeah, not going to happen anymore. The broadcaster got int ...
People | SportsNewser Reggie Miller's Terrible No Good Month Continues By Noah Davis on Feb. 18, 2011 - 11:08 AM First, Ray Allen broke Reggie Miller’s all-time record for three-point shots made. The former Indiana Pacer was appreciative and appropriately congratulatory, but you have to know it burned him up inside. The newest sleight, ...
SportsNewser WEEI Broadcaster Unhappy About Losing Show By Noah Davis on Feb. 17, 2011 - 12:23 PM On Wednesday, WEEI announced the station was splitting up its Dale & Holley program, match Michael Holley with Glenn Ordway and relegating Dale Arnold to the bench. According to Boston Sports Media Watch, the latter host was u ...
SportsNewser There Will Be a 2011 Women's Professional Soccer Season By Noah Davis on Feb. 17, 2011 - 11:11 AM You know how we know? Because they have a schedule. The troubled Women’s Professional Soccer league kicks off the 2011 season when the Atlanta Beat hose the Boston Breakers on April 9 at Kennesaw State University. “Thi ...
SportsNewser Sports Illustrated Writer Runs for FIFA President By Noah Davis on Feb. 17, 2011 - 11:01 AM Grant Wahl is perhaps the best-known soccer writer in America, but he’s aiming higher. Sports Illustrated‘s senior writer announced his candidacy for the president of FIFA, soccer’s ruling body (in so many langua ...
SportsNewser | TV Biz He's Baaaack: Charlie Davies Returns to Washington D.C. By Noah Davis on Feb. 17, 2011 - 10:45 AM American soccer star Charlie Davies will play with D.C. United this season. That’s all.
SportsNewser | TV Biz Watson Proves a Ratings Winner By Noah Davis on Feb. 16, 2011 - 12:26 PM So the computer is kicking butt and taking names (Toronto????) in Jeopardy. But the real winner is the show itself, which is averaging its best ratings in four years. Monday’s show “averaged an 8.7 household rating Mon ...
SportsNewser Is Isiah Thomas Returning to the New York Knicks? By Noah Davis on Feb. 16, 2011 - 11:41 AM Isiah Thomas sure sounds like he’s plotting a return to Madison Square Garden. The former coach and team president spoke with Sid Rosenberg on Miami radio Tuesday night and he offered some thoughts about the direction of the ...
SportsNewser | TV Biz Watson Wins, but Humanity Will Continue By Noah Davis on Feb. 16, 2011 - 10:12 AM Watson, IBM’s super Jeopardy computer, thrashed Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the first game of the trio’s two-match face-off for the future of humanity. When it was over, Watson earned $35,734 in winnings, with Rutt ...