Shaquille O’Neal and Mike Pereira are the finalists for the Sports Social TV Entertainer of the Year award to be announced on May 29 at the first Sports Social Summit in Los Angeles. Read more
Roland Williams, who won a Super Bowl ring in 2000 as a tight end for the St. Louis Rams, on Sunday night (8:30 p.m. EST) debuted the first of his twice a week sports chat program on ConnecTV.com. Read more
What matters: The Giants picked up their first divisional win of the season in Week 7, and if they can avenge the season-opening defeat to the Cowboys, they’ll be in the driver’s seat entering the second half of the season. Read more
The New England Patriots [team stats]’ nail-biting 29-26 overtime victory in Sunday’s game against their AFC East rivals the New York Jets [team stats] drew the highest television ratings of the team’s 2012 season, officials said. Read more
[NFL player engages in passive complaining via retweet on Twitter?]
If Carolina Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams is unhappy with his lack of touches during the team’s 19-14 loss to Dallas, he’s not saying so. Read more
So what’s up with Fox having no games at 4 p.m.?
Fox thought it would be airing Game 6 of the National League Championship Series at 4:30 p.m. ET so it requested the NFL to load off its contests in Week 7 at 1 p.m. Read more
Via Bleacher Report, published on LA Times. Interesting to see what was picked and what was not — no GetGlue, no Zeebox, no IntoNow:
Not only is there unprecedented coverage, but as the digital era makes way for the mobile era, gadgets have permeated our culture, and the NFL community has responded. Read more
While blackout rules were originally instated to allow teams to preserve revenues from shrinking, the NFL as a business has evolved dramatically over the last 50 years. In fact, starting in 2014 the NFL is set to make revenues totaling nearly $6 billion a year from TV contracts alone (CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN, and DirecTV). Read more
After a 24-23 upset win over New England Sunday in the NFL, Seattle defensive back Richard Sherman took to Twitter, and sent out a meme-ified version of this photo with text reading “U MAD BRO?” over it. Read more
