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• Barak Obama will appear with Mike and Mike on ESPN Radio Network on Thursday morning October 2 at 7:10 am EDT.

• While sources said the move is completely unrelated, the Best Damn Sports Show Period is losing its executive producer, John Entz, who is leaving to join Major League Baseball's new network as senior vice president of production. He will be in charge of all in-studio and game coverage, reporting directly to network chief and former CBS Sports executive producer Tony Petitti. An announcement of that move is expected this week. (Courtesy Broadcasting & Cable)

• With no drama (Vijay Singh had already clinched it) and no Tiger (he's sidelined), the Tour Championship got no ratings. Well, that's not accurate, so let's just say that given the factors going against it, the Tour Championship got thrown for a loss. Saturday's third round on NBC had an overnight Nielsen rating of 1.3, down 46.4% from last year's 2.8 (that turned out to be a 2.6 in the final rating). Sunday's fourth round had an overnight rating of 1.8, down 54.5% from last year's 3.3 (a 3.0 final rating). (Courtesy Los Angeles Times)

• KHTK 1140 in Sacramento is joining the San Jose Sharks Radio Network.

• Retired New England Patriot Troy Brown has teamed up with Comcast SportsNet's Gary Tanguay and Michael Felger as the new NFL analyst on "Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight." Troy made his debut Thursday night, right after announcing his retirement from pro football. (Courtesy Boston Herald)

• Arbitron has reissued the summer, phase 2 Arbitrends report for San Diego. The company said in a memo to subscribers that it learned that three summer 2008 week 2 diaries were returned by a media-affiliated household and should not have been included in the in-tab sample. As reported earlier this week, Clear Channel told its advertisers that the report would be reissued over diaries returned by the household of a personality on KLSD (XTRA Sports 1360). It did not name the personality, but KLSD morning co-host Dave Palet was fired last Friday. Arbitron said in Friday's memo that ratings for KLSD "may be substantially affected." In the revised report, KLSD comes in with a 0.4; in the discarded report, it showed a 0.6. (Courtesy Radio Ink)

• TBS, carrying all first-round MLB playoff games, filled out its announcer lineup card Sunday. And despite the mediagenic Chicago Cubs playing the Los Angeles Dodgers, TBS figures the Boston Red Sox-Los Angeles Angels series is the TV star and will send its top on-air team — Chip Caray and Buck Martinez — to cover it. (Courtesy USA Today)

• Barry Switzer wasn't on Fox's NFL studio show Sunday and won't be again until Oct. 19, when the first Bowl Championship Series ratings will be released. Switzer's temporary absence is meant to free up more air time for promising Fox rookie Michael Strahan. (Courtesy USA Today)

• Sid Rosenberg, whose 790 morning show beat WQAM's in the last ratings book, said he spoke to his former employer, WFAN in New York, and its popular afternoon host Mike Francesa, about potentially joining Francesa's show. But no offer was made, and Rosenberg said: ``I don't know what they're going to do.'' Francesa -- whose longtime cohost, Chris Russo, recently left for a job on Sirius XM Radio -- is speaking to numerous potential candidates, Rosenberg said. Although Rosenberg has ''less than three years'' on his 790 contract, the station likely would not block his move to New York if something materialized. (Courtesy Miami Herald)

• WFOR-4 and WQAM sportscaster Kim Bokamper is opening Bokamper's Sports Bar and Grill this weekend in Plantation. (Courtesy Miami Herald)

• For the pending MLB playoff schedule, KABC-AM (790) and the Dodgers will have Vin Scully on every game, doing the first and last three innings (with Charley Steiner and Rick Monday in the middle three), and the Angels will use Rory Markas and Terry Smith on its KLAA-AM (830) flagship. This no doubt has some importance with the local fans, since either TBS or Fox has TVcoverage locked in for all the postseason. KSPN-AM (710) will still carry all ESPN Radio broadcasts of the playoffs - including games involving the Angels and Dodgers - unless there's a conflict with a USC football game. (Courtesy LA Daily News)

• At XTRA Sports 1360, the firing of Dave Palet and the addition of Dan Patrick leaves the following lineup, effective Wednesday – 6-9 a.m., Patrick; 9 a.m.-noon, Craig Elsten; noon-3 p.m., Chris Ello; 3-7 p.m., Jeff Dotseth and Josh Rosenberg. Dotseth and Mike Costa didn't exactly shine this week when they asked Chuck Muncie about Don Coryell yelling, “Damn you, Al Davis!” at a light fixture in a locker room. It's a great story – except the Chargers coach wasn't Coryell; it was Harland Svare. (Courtesy San Diego Union Tribune)

• The average Monday Night Football audience thus far is 13.3 million viewers, up 27 percent over last year, a number buoyed by the terrific Eagles- Dallas Cowboys game, which was cable television's most-watched show. (Courtesy Baltimore Sun)

• Comcast SportsNet announced that former Patriot Troy Brown, who made his retirement from the NFL official yesterday, will serve as an analyst on "Sports Tonight," which airs at 6:30 and 10 from Monday-Friday. In addition to his in-studio duties, Brown will also work on Patriots features. (Courtesy Boston Globe)

• The National Hockey League has struck a long-term deal with All Sports Network, a new Asian regional channel currently being launched by Hong Kong-based Yes TV. Multi-year deal sees ice hockey carried on ASN from the start of the 2008-09 season and gives Yes TV and ASN rights in all TV formats throughout most of Asia. These include China and the Indian sub-continent, but exclude Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Korean distribution of NHL games through ASN will begin during the second year of the deal. (Courtesy Variety)

• LSU's thrilling 26-21 win over Auburn last Saturday was not only the most watched college football game of the week, but it also ranked as the third-highest rated event on cable television last week according to the Nielsen Ratings. The LSU-Auburn game was watched by 5.6 million viewers, which trailed only the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles (18.6 million viewers) and The Closer (7.6 million viewers) on TNT. (Courtesy LSUSports.net)

• They call the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team" for a reason: Whenever they're on, America tunes in. Last week, a pair of contests featuring the NFL team finished atop the standings, overshadowing season premieres on other nets, including Fox's "House," and the Primetime Emmy Awards on ABC. NBC, which aired the Cowboys' victory over the Green Bay Packers on "Sunday Night Football," carried the week in most key ratings categories, logging its seventh consecutive victory -- a stretch that started with the Beijing Olympics. (Courtesy Variety)

• Mike Bauer has been named Assistant Program Director at XTRA Sports 910 in Phoenix. He will also continue to produce XTRA's morning show.

• Major League Baseball has all but finalized plans to split TV coverage of the 2009 World Baseball Classic between ESPN and the new MLB Network. ESPN showed 16 games domestically from the inaugural WBC in 2006 and all 39 contests on ESPN Deportes. For next year, it will again show the event's semifinals and final, scheduled for March at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, as well as select other games domestically. MLB Network will handle much of the action from the first and second rounds. (Courtesy Sports Business Journal)

• KLAC in Los Angeles and Sports Radio 1350 in Akron are adding the Tony Bruno Show.

• Sports-talker Jody McDonald, who had quadruple-bypass surgery Aug. 22, says he hopes to be back on the air at WPEN (950) on Oct. 3 after clearances from his docs. "The arrows are pointed up," Jody Mac said Friday. So far, he can't drive or even ride in the front seat, lest an air bag deploy upon his tender chest. McDonald, 47, says he didn't have classic symptoms, other than arm and shoulder pain that he'd been working through. Oh, and blood pressure of 227/183. (Courtesy Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Former Ranger Matthew Barnaby will succeed Barry Melrose as ESPN's lead NHL hockey analyst. (The Buffalo News)