By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch The rapid evolution of WEEI.com continues and we’re not even a month into the new incarnation. Content has been bountiful, integration with the radio side has been almost seamless (see: the John Dennis ‘scoop’ from Wednesday AND the dot-com branded Saturday morning show) and there’s even big-name sponsors [...]

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By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Capping what could become a defining week in the storied history of the Boston Globe sports desk, sports editor Joe Sullivan announced in Sunday’s paper that the Washington Post’s Adam Kilgore will share the Red Sox beat with Amalie Benjamin. Kilgore, 24, who has been a star on [...]

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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 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 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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• 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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