1. The latest, brand new, hot-off-the-presses Sports Illustrated Media Podcast is a Year in Review roundtable with John Ourand of Sports Business Journal and Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.
Each of us gave our Sports Media Story of The Year (actually, we gave two each, but who's counting). Here were our choices:
Ourand: "The Match" with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and Fox selling its entertainment assets to Disney which enabled them to acquire Thursday Night Football, acquire WWE Smackdown and renew its MLB deal.