The New York Jets held a press conference today to announce that they will be the featured team on this season’s edition of HBO’s Hard Knocks. This means that their controversial head coach, Rex Ryan, will be prominently featured on the program. Members of the sports media, bloggers in particular, are delighted by the news.

Good news! Robbie Allen of the excellent sports statistics site statsheet.com thinks he might have tapped into the wave of the future in sports journalism. Bad news! The wave of the future involves computers doing the work of humans.

One of my most memorable moments of my college paper career occurred during the spring of my senior year. I was sitting across a meeting room table from Boston Globe writer and ESPN contributor Bob Ryan, who had come talk with upperclassmen at his old alma mater about the industry.

Last night’s premiere of Dancing With the Stars, powered by Erin Andrews’ much buzzed-about debut, scored big ratings for ABC. It’s hard not to conclude that this year’s inclusion of Andrews (also, Mediaite’s number-one-ranked TV Reporter), helped out a bit.

Earlier this afternoon, Tiger Woods gave his first interviews since the accident last November with two sources, ESPN and The Golf Channel. The terms were surprisingly open: five minutes straight with no questions off limits, but mandated to be held for broadcast until 7:30 p.m. EDT.

TMZ is reporting that Ben Roethlisberger has been accused of sexual assault by a woman in Georgia, marking the second time in a year the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback has faced sexual assault accusations.

The stage is set for Tiger Woods return to golf, and he’s doing it at a tournament that has “a tradition unlike any other.” Woods said in a statement today he’ll make his long-awaited return at the Masters on April 5, and CBS is bracing for huge ratings as a result.

The understatement for the first quarter of 2010 is that CBS Sports has had an okay start to 2010. First, its broadcast of Super Bowl XLV became the most watched television program in history. Then, it got to recharge the batteries through the month of February while the media world converged upon Vancouver – before [...]

After Friday’s new media showdown between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann (via his MLB blog) and ESPN’s Bill Simmons (via his Twitter feed), all was quiet over the weekend. Then yesterday afternoon, Olbermann fired back, and Simmons’ editor responded to Mediaite.

It’s been an interesting 24 hours for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He let his sense of humor see the light of day on last night’s Daily Show Chatroulette satire, and now he’s already got another notch in the belt of being more down to earth than evidence sometimes suggests.