The Sports Pope of New York's former radio partner Chris Russo will also return to TV, as his Sirius XM High Heat will be air on MLB Network, starting opening day, March 31st at noon.
[Source: FOX Sports; Awful Announcing]
The long rumored changes in ESPN's College Football broadcast is coming to form as Brent Musburger is now the lead analyst for ESPN's SEC TV coverage this fall. The hall of fame legend will team with Jesse Palmer for the SEC Game of the Week (or technically, the second best game after CBS). The move appears to put in motion for either Chris Fowler or Rece Davis to be the new face of ESPN's College Football coverage with Kirk Herbstreit.
[Source: ESPN Media Zone; The Big Lead]
Rick Reilly has retired his ESPN.com column. The award winning, but controversial writer will end his run on the World Wide Leader's website on July 1st. Reilly will become a contributor to Monday Night Football, Sunday NFL Countdown and SportsCenter with human interest features and on air story telling. Reilly who signed an extension last May, has been dogged by accusations of mailing in his columns and blatantly self plagiarizing columns he has written in the past. Reilly will release a new book in May, a collection of his writings on ESPN.com.
[Source: ESPN Front Row, Deadspin]
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