We hope you had a fantastic holiday and an equally productive shopping day.  So now relax and take in some of what the sports media columnists from around the country are writing today…

Tom Hoffarth at the LA Daily News looks at the low points in sports media in 2008.

Dave Darling at the Orlando Sentinel gets into the holiday spirit with his recommendations of gifts for the sports fan in your family…

David Barron at the Houston Chronicle uses his piece to seek out TV analysts’ opinions on who should be college football’s current #2 team…

Neil Best at Newsday looks at the ongoing preparations for the launch of the MLB Network…

Doug Nye at the State remembers the history of the South Carolina/Clemson rivalry on TV…

Jim Carlisle at the Ventura County Star has a pair of pieces…the first on why he feels the Lions should continue to be featured each Thanksgiving.  The second looks at this weekend’s Skins Game.

Scott D. Pearce at the Salt Lake Desert News relives the missed predictions from the ESPN Gameday crew when it came to Utah/BYU.

Ray Buck at the Fort Worth Star Telegram has a talk with Dick Vitale…

Michael Zumida at the Grand Rapids Press continues the pile on against the NFL Network.

John Maffei at the North County Times talks to a local now working at the Golf Channel.

Dan Caesar at the St. Louis Post Dispatch looks at how two local St. Louis TV stations have merged, and its impact on its local sports coverage…

Jay Posner at the San Diego Union Tribune has a discussion with the returning Matt Vasgersian…

Diane Pucin at the LA Times writes that NBA teams look to video games as a scouting tool…

Nancy Marrapese-Burrell at the Boston Globe has a piece with Celtics CEO Wyk Grousbeck…