Staying tuned to this weekend
The plans are for Sunday's "Writing On (and off) The Wall" to take on ESPN's Kenny Mayne , who has been able to mockument the sporting scene (a la Jon Stewart's book, "America") with his new book, "An Incomplete & Inaccurate History of Sport," which includes an intentionally long subtitle.
The book came out Tuesday, and Mayne is in L.A. this week, doing a signing at the Grove on Thursday night (Barnes & Noble, 7:30 p.m.) and appearing at the giant non-Daily News Festival of Books on Saturday at noon. There's more info on his website, www.kennymayneiswritingabook.com.
He's also taping a segment tonight for next week's "Dancing With The Stars" espisode ... where he's thankfully not dancing, just analyzing things.
This could have all made for a better Friday media column, but we figured that it would be more newsworthy to focus instead on the changes ESPN and the NFL Network have to make with the new time limits on the first round of this weekend's NFL Draft. The whole thing has also been moved back to a 3 p.m. EST start so that it stumbles into prime-time and, for the most part, goes head-to-head with the NBA playoffs (including Lakers-Nuggets on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. PDT).
If that's too drab, we're also heading out to Staples Center tonight to chat it up with Marv Albert, who will do the call on at least the next three Lakers-Nuggets games for TNT (although, you can still enjoy the dulcet tones of Joel "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" Meyers and Stuart Lantz doing it on FSN West and KCAL Channel 9 this weekend).
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