By David Scott
Boston Sports media Watch
Shots is not quite ready to re-start regular Friday posts, but the confluence of buzz surrounding Chad Finn, Dan Shaughnessy, Bill Simmons and Dick Albert offered too many fish in too small a barrel for my blogging soul.
As for my real-life project, we are happy to report a 238-page manuscript [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
UPDATE: NESN has posted an “explanation” of its broadcast blunder as well as information on two scheduled re-broadcasts set for today at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. (The 1 p.m. re-broadcast is oddly void of a regular game clock, using only a score graphic in the lower right-hand corner. This [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
A SHOTS FIELD TRIP TO. . .
This has never been the regular series it should be, but every once in a while Shots does leave Hull and venture into the crowded streets of - and around - Boston. It usually ends poorly with a traffic jam or general bitterness, [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
WEEI.com editor Rob Bradford has confirmed to Scott’s Shots that part-timer Ron Borges is leaving the site for a full-time gig at the Boston Herald.
When reached on his cell phone Tuesday night in the 7 p.m. hour, Borges hung up on me after I identified myself. I took that as [...]

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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 already jumping [...]

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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 arrival of things [...]

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