==Other "winners" announced this week by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters:
Radio play-by-play: Vin Scully (his 13th win in the 17 year of the awards, who probably would have won all 17 but they put in some lame rule about someone who wins for three consecutive years isn't eligible for a fourth, which makes no sense -- if he's the best, he's the best)
The other awkward thing about giving this to Scully: He only does three innings every home game, simulcast from the TV. Radio isn't his medium any more.
TV play-by-play: Scully (for the 10th time in 17 years)
Radio analyst: Mychal Thompson, Lakers
TV analyst: Rex Hudler, Angels
Radio staff award: KFWB (seventh win in 17 years)
TV anchor staff: KABC-TV (first win ... did Fox Sports Net not buy an ad in the program?)
Foreign Language Sports Broadcaster of the Year: Jaime Jarrin, Dodgers radio (his fourth win in five years of the award ... I couldn't tell you if he deserved it or not)

==Before CBS takes the final two rounds of next weekend's Glen Campbell L.A. Open Nissan Open Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club, the Golf Channel has the first two rounds Thursday and Friday, but glamor girl Kelly Tilghman won't be on site. The network has kept her back to host the PGA Tour Primetime show from their Orlando studios. She returned to Florida after the Golf Channel's coverage Thursday and today at Pebble Beach and will return to Southern California the week after for the WGC event.
Rich Lerner and Frank Nobilo (not Nick Faldo) will do the Golf Channel's Riviera coverage from noon to 3 p.m. on Feb. 14 and 15. Peter Oosterhuis will report from the tower position with Matt Gogel and Jerry Foltz reporting from the course. Inga Hammond and Brandel Chamblee will also be at Riviera for the post-game show at 3 p.m. on Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Hammond does a live tournament preview show Wednesday (Feb. 13) at 4:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, at Pebble Beach, Tilghman and Faldo have round two of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am from noon to 3 p.m., with a replay from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

==HBO's "Inside the NFL," which decided to back away from the show after 31 years, finished its last episode this week (it reairs several times) with Len Dawson and Nick Buoniconti joining Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Cris Carter and Dan Marino for the final that aired Wednesday night. The show opens with Collinsworth lamenting that Marino has never been fired from a job before. "Whoa, who said anyone of us got fired?" interrupted Costas. "Just becuse someone made a boneheaded decision to discontinue one of the best and longest running shows doesn't mean any of us got fired." At least it got a laugh. Costas also said in the final 15 minutes of farewell that each week "we had fun, but there was quality and good work done here." As opposed, apparently, do the NFL studio job and and Collinsworth did at NBC on "Sunday Night Football." That, we agree. As for where the show will end up, NFL director of corporate communications Dan Masonson says the league plans to do it, with NFL Films, at another network. Yeah, like, The NFL Network.

==Maybe they can next discuss this story from the Onion Sports:

==Since ESPN360.com is available to about 20 million who have the internet service providers who are onboard with delivery, the network says its live broadband network will now be available at no cost to college students who use an on-campus .edu domain, as well as U.S.-based military personnel who have the .mil domain. There are 25 internet providers who do the service, including AT&T and Verizon; Time Warner and Comcast are not on board. With giving access to the education and military domains, the network will likely double the number of possible users.

==ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that airs Sunday (6:30 a.m. on ESPN; 9 a.m. on ESPNEWS) looks into suspicious betting on men's pro tennis -- specifically, the August 2007 match in Sopot, Poland that resulted in the ATP launching an investigation. ESPN's fourth month investigation by the network's "Enterprise Unit" say sit has "obtained never-before-released details of the wagering" on the match between No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko of Russia (pictured above) and No. 87 Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina -- Davydenko retired early in the third set. The British gambling website Betfair took more than $7 million in wagers on the otherwise obscure match. ESPN The Magazine senior writer Shaun Assael got the internal ATP emails that detail the suspicious betting activities of known gambler Martin Fuhrer, and Assael went to Vienna to interview him.

==Marv Albert has a job at TNT doing the NBA at least through the 2015-16 season -- which coincides with the network's current TV agreement. Albert will be 75 years old when that deal reaches its ending. The network and the Hall of Fame broadcaster announced the contract extension, which will include doing games for NBA TV -- Turner just made a deal with the NBA to run the league-owned channel. Albert has been with TNT since 1999 -- two years after NBC dropped him for something we can't remember anymore...

==Mike Tirico and Hubie Brown call the Lakers-Heat game Sunday from Miami at 12:30 p.m. for ABC, which is preceeded by San Antonio at Boston at 10 a.m. with Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Michele Tafoya. Joel Meyers is doing the Lakers-Heat game for ESPN Radio with Will Perdue trying to get a word in, but we unfortunately will be stuck hearing Spero Dedes and Mychael Thompson calling it on 570-AM.

==And while it was nice to see Dick Vitale back behind the mike, for Wednesday's Duke-North Carolina game, it was with a voice still sounding fragile and without the previous gusto he's been able to muster. Hopefully, that will come in time. It's not worth rushing him out so quickly if he simply breaks down again under the strain of a post-operative vocal chord.
Our wish: He'd only do one game a week and consider the health risks.
USA Today reports that Vitale will be wearing a "ambulatory phonation monitor" that measures the vibrations of the voice box to make sure things stay good inside the throat.

==Brent Musburger and Steve Lavin call the USC-Washington State game for ABC Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Verne Lundquist and Billy Packer do the Duke-Boston College game for CBS (Saturday, 10 a.m.), while Kevin Harlan and unbias Clark Kellogg do Indiana-Ohio State on the network (Sunday, 10 a.m.).

==CBSSports.com says it will host an NCAA March Madness brackets application for the upcoming men's hoop tournament through those who use Facebook.com. The brackets at www.facebook.com/brackets, will be available both online and via CBS Sports Mobile. The application will get users to fill out brackets and have access to coverage on CBSSports.com and NCAA.com.

==Barry MacKay and Leif Shiras are primary broadcasters for coverage of the Davis Cup first-round match between the U.S. and Austria this weekend on Versus and the Tennis Channel. Versus' coverage of the first singles match today (9 a.m.), as well as doubles Saturday (9 a.m.) and singles Sunday (9 a.m.) is replayed on Tennis Channel at 5 p.m.

==In addition to the Ducks' game in Detroit selected as the NBC game of the week (Sunday, 12 p.m.), Versus says it has worked a deal with Phoenix coach Wayne Gretzky to wear a mike during its coverage of the Coyotes' game in Dallas, Monday at 4 p.m. Now, if they can get The Great One to say anything of signifigance.

==New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning wasn't good enough to get into Sunday's Pro Bowl -- which Fox covers at 1:30 p.m. from Hawaii. Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, Tony Siragusa and Brian Baldinger do the game, usually relegated to cable but now a network presentation. The only thing of interest from this game is that the huddles are usually miked -- as if you can figure out at home what the heck is going on.

==Fox's NASCAR coverage starts with the Budweiser Shootout live from Daytona (Saturday, 5 p.m.) followed by Daytona 500 qualifying (Sunday, 10 a.m.)

=="Dale Jr. -- Shifting Gears," the five-part reality show behind the scenes at Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s move to Hendrick Motorsports, has episode one today at 4 p.m. on ESPN2. Three of the five episodes air in the days prior to the Daytona 500. The last two are the week of the July 27 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.

==Darren Rovell, the sports biz reporter at CNBC, hosts a one-hour special called "Swoosh! Inside Nike" on the network that airs Tuesday at 7 and 10 p.m., reportedly giving viewers "unprecendented access to a major public company." Part of Rovell's story includes a trip he took to Vietnam to look at the company's labor practices. Rovell checks out three factories and finds that, desptie improved conditions, there is still friction between Nike and its workers. The special coincides with the latest Nike basketball shoe that'll be unveiled during the NBA All-Star game. On Feb. 23, Nike will also debut the Jordan XX3, a shoe brand that has made the company about $800 million. Michael Jordan will be among those interviewed.

==As for the New England Patriots' "Spygate" story and how it won't go away, Fox NFL insider Jay Glazer told Andrew Siciliano and Krystal Fernandez on their Fox syndicated radio show Tuesday that he still has copies of tapes given to him and has neither destroyed them nor given them to Congress.
"It's been reported that I’ve agreed to go to the Senate and give up the Patriots spy tapes. I was contacted this morning about this, (and) that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. I do have Spygate tapes at my house, absolutely, and it will be shown, but, only for my next party. I have not been contacted by anybody in the NFL, nobody in the Senate, or by anybody in Congress. People have even told me I have to get a legal team...This is just not true. Nothing could be further from the truth. I honestly don’t know why Arlen Specter is getting involved to begin with, because it’s really none of his business. If they want to see it at the next party I have, they can come see it."

==Ashley Judd alert: The next episode of HBO's "Real Sports" includes a piece on Dario Franchitti and his move from IndyCar to NASCAR. The episode that debuts Monday at 7 p.m. probably won't include much of the reporter drooling over Ashley. Mary Carillo does the Q-and-A. The show also includes a Frank Deford piece on Sister Madonna Buder of Spokane, Wash., who, at 77, continues to compete in triathlons, including the Ironman in Hawaii.

==And finally:
Mike Golic plays the role of Pacman -- now there's a name you want associated with you -- and Mike Greenberg plays the little ghosts as Pizza Hut has hired the ESPN Radio whores to participate in an online video game. This, despite the fact the two do voice-overs for Dominos commercials, and Golic continues to do ads for NutriSystem weight loss food.
Any way to get Dana Jacobson on a Mrs. Pacman version, where she swigs vodka and swears at everyone?
Maybe this is to divert attention from the fact that Mike and Mike actually broke a story this week -- that Mike Golic Jr. was going to sign with Notre Dame. Junior made the announcement live on the Mike and Mike show Wednesday morning.