• 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
There really was no bigger media story this week - and yes, we mean ALL of media - than the slightly over-discussed, but still educational, Buzz-on-Will episode from HBO’s Costas Now special on Tuesday night.
The discussion has successfully spun off into all sorts of subsets of the two men’s thoughts, […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
The irony of Will Leitch’s Tuesday afternoon posting’s title promoting his appearance on HBO’s special edition of “Costas Now”, can not be overlooked.
Just about everything went wrong: For Bob Costas and Pulitzer Prize-winner H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger and, to a lesser extent, HBO. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM MJD of YAHOO!, BELOW:
Following a sports Sad-urday that saw the Celtics, Red Sox and, arguably the Patriots all lose in varying degrees of seriousness, the sinking Boston Globe Sports section continued its own downward spiral on Sunday with an unlucky Page C13 that must’ve been […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Just as the paper’s editor was informing employees that the Boston Globe has dodged “layoffs,” its national baseball writer was being informed his application for the company’s buyout offer had been rejected.
As reported earlier this week, Globie Gordon Edes is on the verge of jumping to Yahoo! Sports as a […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
We’ll be live-blogging from the historic Curry Hicks Cage in Amherst late Wednesday afternoon as Derek Kellogg is introduced as head basketball coach at the University of Massachusetts. We hope to have a bunch of Umies join in with comments, questions and polling, so be sure to spread the word […]

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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
We agree with point 10 C. of King, Peter from The Once King of All Magazines that it was wrong to boo David Ortiz last weekend considering the season is just 1/14th toward completion.
That, however, doesn’t spare us from booing the NESN (Slow) Trigger Pullers who have now gone more […]

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