The media learning curve: Looking back at Oct. 3-10

Again, after today's media column (linked here) on why Ron Darling still has trouble sleeping and Eric Karros has no trouble agreeing with Tim McCarver, we learned through a week's worth of bombardment in the sports media world:

==College football's Week 7 on L.A. TV includes Top 10-on-Top 10 violence in Dallas (linked here).

==The NFL's Week 6 on L.A. TV kind of clashed with our baseball programming (linked here).

==What's in cold storage for TV's NHL coverage (linked here)

Also:

==What went wrong with the movie version of "The Express," focused on former Syracuse running back Ernie Davis (linked here). The movie opens today in theatres nationwide.

==The expanded version of Karros talking about McCarver, Manny, et.al. (linked here)

==Why a certain Dodger featured on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated spells doom (linked here)

==Why someone in Hollywood, more blind that Al Pacino was in "Scent of a Woman," considers Pacino a candidate as the movie version of Tommy Lasorda (linked here).

==A clip of ESPN's "E:60" showing the homeless basketball league at the Union Rescue Mission on L.A.'s Skid Row (linked here).

==Who's covering the 2009 World Baseball Classic, and who cares (linked here).

==What kind of future the MMA has on CBS after a 14-second climax last Saturday night (insert your own punchline here). (linked here).

==Norman Chad's latest take on the sports media world (linked here).

==Chris Berman is melting (linked here).

==Vin Scully is honored (linked here).

==Pete Arbogast is a victim (linked here) (and as one reader pointed out after seeing the hyprocracy in the USC football broadcaster complaining about being robbed and then bragging about how he snuck into the Greek Theatre to see Neil Diamond, Arbogast can also tell some stories -- proudly -- about how he used to scalp his Clipper comp tickets when he was the team's PA announcer).

==How Time magazine jinxed the Chicago Cubs (linked here).