• A minor development in the Gordon Edes-to-Yahoo! Sports soap opera: Edes filed his appeal last Friday and is expecting the New York Times Company’s ERISA Management Committee to hear the appeal in the coming days. That committee was scheduled to meet this week, but as of Thursday night, the Edes appeal had not been […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
As if getting beaten by its sister on its own region’s biggest off-field story in years wasn’t enough, Boston.com further embarrassed the Boston Globe brand on Wednesday night when it sent out an ‘email alert’ of breaking news regarding the Matt Walsh fiasco. The mass email arrived at Shots’ inbox […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
With the rumors already making the rounds of his option to take the Boston Globe buyout, Peter May has confirmed to Scott’s Shots that he is, in fact, leaving the paper.
May, who came to the Globe in 1990 from the Hartford Courant and has been the paper’s senior basketball writer […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Multiple sources have confirmed to Scott’s Shots that Boston Globe writer, Gordon Edes, has agreed “in principle” to a job with Yahoo! Sports as a national baseball writer. Edes, according to sources, is committed to going to Yahoo!, but was still hoping to be part of the buyout offer at […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
UPDATED WITH JACKIE MACMULLAN CONFIRMATION AND EXPLANATION, WED. 5 p.m.
Long-time Boston Globe writer and columnist Jackie MacMullan is going to be taking the latest buyout offer from the paper, Shots has confirmed. MacMullan’s departure would be the highest profile defection at the paper and would severely limit the voice and […]

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So here we go again with the annual guessing game of how more Boston Globe buyouts may or may not affect the Sports section of Joe Sullivan. With a lower threshold for minimum years, we’re now getting into an area where even some of the less gray, graybeards will be in the mix. However, the […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
• Not sure if Green Boxer, Chris Snow was joking when he blogged this on Sunday: “Apologies for the lack of humor in these dispatches. I’m keeping it serious, given that Gordon is on blogging probation for signing one of his dispatches with the salutation ‘Layta’ at the winter meetings.”
Knowing […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
****UPDATED THURSDAY 11/10/05 at 2:35 p.m.****
In the course of a routine teleconference on Wednesday, discussing college basketball’s upcoming season on ESPN, Boston Globe media critic, Bill Griffith, alluded to the notion that he might soon be leaving the paper he has been at for some 40 years.
Griffith, who two weeks […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
A brand new PodShots is available for downloading. This week’s offering features Donny Marshall and can be found by visiting PodShots’ Podcast . (Or direct download it here.) The former UConn Husky is currently the rookie in-studio analyst for FSN New England’s Celtics telecasts.
Hear Donny’s reverence […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Last month’s announcement of planned layoffs by Boston Globe Daddy, the New York Times Company, is beginning to affect the Globe sports department, Scott’s Shots has confirmed.
Long-time Globe sportswriter, Marvin Pave, has agreed to take the company buyout according to three separate individuals with intimate knowledge of the […]

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