By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch In yet another stunning blow to the battered Boston Herald sports section, general columnist and Red Sox specialist, Tony Massarotti is leaving One Herald Square, crossing over Route 93, will land smack dab on Joe Sullivan’s sports staff at the Boston Globe/Boston.com. Adam Reilly at the Phoenix had [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch DEVELOPING STORY: In what could very well be a death knell for the struggling all-sports talk radio also-ran in the Boston market, ESPN 890 AM’s General Manager Jessamy Tang sent the following memo to employees earlier this afternoon: “Due to Mike Felger’s obligations to Comcast Sports Net, he [...]

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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 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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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch PROGRAMMING NOTE: Shots will be accompanying the Memphis Tigers basketball program on its upcoming trip to China. Because of that, our Boston Sports Media duties will be on hiatus. But you can follow the journey from Hull to Huizhou at the Conference USA website beginning Monday and continuing [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Some people sleep out for concert tickets. Others wait for XBox video games to be released. A few need to be the first to see a new release in movie theaters. As a media critic in the Internet Age, I prefer to wait up late night for the [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch While we slowly and skeptically get past the tongue-in-cheek feel of the Boston Herald’s “Sorry, Pats” headline from Wednesday and as we wait for the Friday-promised explanation from ‘Comments-off’ writer John Tomase, let’s take a little look at some of the factors that have brought us to this [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch [EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story now (Monday night, 9:00 p.m. EST) contains a response from Bill Simmons regarding the Bob Ryan comments on Sunday's "Sports Final" on CBS4 in Boston. It also should be noted that this entry is setting visitor records to this page, which we attribute [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch • We got Wally ! But we lost Ricky? What happens to the Get Buckets Brigade? ESPN.com was crediting the story to the Herald and TNT. The AP (in the story that Boston.com went with) gave credit to the Herald’s website as well. Looks like Steve Bullet Bulpett [...]

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