By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Response was pretty positive to last week’s Monday offering, so we’ll keep it going as long as you keep the dialogue running. (Shots’ Loyalists will recall the days when we dutifully dissected the Sunday night show on Mondays with regularity. At some point, we realized that no one’s [...]

• 6 Comments

By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch FOXBOROUGH – An opportune visit to the House of Tom on Thursday night showed us two very evident storylines developing in Patriots’s media land: 1. There’s going to be some shake-up in Pats’ beat once the Herald and sports editor Hank Hryniewicz settle on a hire for this [...]

• 4 Comments

By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Scott’s Shots is being told of some intriguing plans being undertaken by Boston Globe Sports Editor Joe Sullivan in an effort to bolster the department’s Red Sox coverage. With Gordon Edes in his final days as a Globie, Sullivan is said to be pursuing a full-time Red Sox [...]

• 5 Comments

By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Boston Globe baseball writer Gordon Edes confirmed over the weekend to Scott’s Shots that he has given his notice to sports editor Joe Sullivan and will begin at Yahoo! Sports (as a national baseball writer) within the next month. The saga that has taken over three months to [...]

• 9 Comments

By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch It’s not all that surprising that on Day One of Patriots Camp 2008, the Boston Globe (and Boston.com) proved to be THE place to go for Belinews and Brady banter. What is surprising is that the Boston Herald and it meager website couldn’t even muster the troops or [...]

• Comments Off

By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch With a week to digest the rather compelling WEEI.com news that Shots led the way on late last week, it’s clearly time for a Winners and Losers edition of “As the Boston Sports Media Market Turns”: WINNER Glenn Ordway The biggest – in every sense – winner is [...]

• 6 Comments

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. [...]

• Comments Off

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 [...]

• 2 Comments

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 – [...]

• 7 Comments

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 [...]

• Comments Off