By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Scott’s Shots has confirmed through a Boston Herald spokesperson that the John Tomase explanation piece will be posted at the paper’s website right around 12:01 a.m. Friday.
Shots will begin a special Live Blog of the Tomase Treatise’s release just before midnight on Thursday, right here at Scott’s Shots. We will [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
While we slowly and skeptically get past the tongue-in-cheek feel of the Boston Herald’s “Sorry, Pats” headline from Wednesday and as we wait for the Friday-promised explanation from ‘Comments-off’ writer John Tomase, let’s take a little look at some of the factors that have brought us to this peculiar spot [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
John Tomase is promising an explanation to the whole Matt Walsh episode for Friday’s paper.
Shots will have more on the matter for Thursday morning and then a follow-up after Tomase’s Friday story gets posted at the Herald’s website (or whenever it is made public).
From his 5:24 p.m. post on Wednesday:
Readers [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
The Boston Herald has “apologized” for writer John Tomase’s Super Bowl Eve bombshell that a tape of a 2002 St. Louis Rams pre-Super Bowl walkthrough existed. Without naming Tomase directly, the paper, at its website (and surely in the Wednesday print edition), says under the heading, “Sorry, Pats” and alongside [...]

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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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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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