By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch John Tomase’s Monday night appearance on Comcast SportsNet was, as expected, the next in his multi-platform redemption tour that began with May 16′s non-apology, apology for his role in the Boston Herald’s Spygate coverage. Appearing for the first time on CSN since April 24 on the 10 p.m. [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Boston Herald sportswriter John Tomase will appear on Comcast SportsNet’s 10 p.m. “Sports Tonight” show on Monday and is expected to discuss his role in Spygate, according to a release from the network. Touting the paid appearance with a subject heading of: “Tomase Makes First TV Appearance Tonight [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch With her final taping of Comcast SportsNet’s “Celtics Now” on Monday, Laura Behnke finished up her three-plus year run in the Boston market. Behnke bolts Boston this Saturday and will join the San Francisco Bay Area’s KNTV (NBC11) as the weekend sports anchor. Behnke, a University of Wisconsin [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Okay, so now what? No, really. What the heck do we do now? Too early for the Red Sox. Too tired of the Patriots. Too soon for the Olympics, too. The inevitable comedown after these things – these wonderful, magnificent journeys through late nights and stirring comebacks – [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch News this week of a Sporting News re-launch and re-focus brought equal parts optimism and pessimism. As we’ve chronicled here before, when Shots was part of the final staff to ever produce SPORT magazine, there were constant rumors that Sporting News would either be our partner in business [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Embattled Boston Herald sportswriter, John Tomase, remains on the Patriots beat despite working the weekend’s Red Sox-Mariners series, according to Herald sports editor Hank Hryniewicz. Tomase, who was at the epicenter of the latest chapter of Spygate, had bylines in the paper over the weekend with all of [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Bill Simmons responded to the original post at 11:36 a.m. ET on Friday and the following is the entirety of his email response to my Thursday email that read: “Ryan kills you and you go after Reilly. . . can’t we all just get along? Why all the [...]

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