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Costas Now: Sports Town Hall Live
Published 4/29/2008 by Peter Wade at Hot Foot
... Looks mighty interesting and the fact that it’s on HBO commercial free for 90 minutes is great. This is something crunched down to say an hour with commercials would just be a waste of time. FYI there are more guests than listed above. For more info check out HBO.com ...

Tonight: Will Leich to Live Out Blogger's Wet Dream
Published 4/29/2008 by Ren McCormack at Hugging Harold Reynolds
... Click here for HBO's episode guide. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear Mr Leitch will have the pleasure of going head on with the likes of the Doggy, Buck and Tiki. ...

Must-See TV Tonight: Leitch vs. Costas
Published 4/29/2008 by DanShanoff.com at Dan Shanoff
Bob Costas his hosting a live "town hall" about sports and media, tonight at 10 on HBO. The most intriguing segment is the one where Will Leitch will take on blog-haters Buzz Bissinger and Braylon Edwards, along with Costas, who is no particularly big fan of technology. Expect a TON of infuriating, illogical and inane anti-blog ranting. Really: Is letting fans have a say THAT bad?

Costas Now Airs Tonight, 10 P.M. Eastern. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? [Well Here Goes]
Published 4/29/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... All right, as you might have heard, we'll be appearing live on Costas Now tonight on HBO, at 10 p.m. ET. Theoretically, this will be a roundtable discussion between ourselves, Costas, the outstanding writer (if not ...

Top 10 Things That Need To Jump Over A Shark
Published 4/30/2008 by Truth About It at Truth About It - Washington Wizards Blog
... Caught Costas Now on HBO last night....it was a town hall meeting to discuss the media and sports on a range of platforms. Essentially, with the snowballing availability of information, outlets for sports are increasingly concentrating on sensationalism and quick hits of information in next to real time. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? You can debate both sides. The town hall meeting concentrated mostly on the negative side-effects. While not all outlets can be considered guilty, there are certainly no innocents. ...

ITS BLOGAGGEDON!!!!!
Published 4/30/2008 by Ken Dynamo at GO METS DIE BRAVES
The sports blog-o-party is all a flutter with the fall out from a late night talk show on HBO hosted by a smarmy Greek midget. ...

A Blogger's Perspective
Published 5/1/2008 by Sarah at Strike Zones and End Zones
... Idol are taking priority. I wanted to pass it along in the aftermath of the Bob Costas debacle. As the smoke clears (sort of) and I'm less emotional (had I written this yesterday, it would have read like a Bissinger tirade), it's becoming clear that bloggers are more relevant than ever, and that scares the shit out of people. Here it is...I'll update with the HuffPo link later today. Costas Just Doesn't Get It On Tuesday evening, Bob Costas hosted a segment on his HBO show Costas Now focusing on the internet and the impact of sports bloggers. The segment featured prominent ...