Spanning the globe….

Radio Ink: Really, an executive predicts the U.S. soon will have 1,000 sports talk stations.

That didn’t take long. Jason McIntyre in Big Lead reports that they already are blowing up Michele Beadle’s show, The Crossover. Co-host Dave Briggs is out. Probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

Yes, Rick Reilly at ESPN.com really did write a poem about the New York Jets’ quarterback situation. Let’s just say it elicited quite a response. Such as…

Mike Tanier at Sports on Earth breaks down Reilly’s poem. He wasn’t a fan.

Matt Yoder at Awful Announcer did his own poem on Reilly.

Richard Deitsch at SI.com talked to the new Canadians guys who Fox Sports 1 hired for its version of SportsCenter. Note it is on page 2 of Deitsch’s massive post.

Dottie Pepper to join ESPN as a golf analyst.

Emma Span at Sports on Earth has a fun piece about her fascination with Baseball-Reference.com.

Sports Books Review Center has a review of a new book about a Class A baseball team in Iowa.

Walter Payton biographer, Jeff Pearlman, writes on his site a tribute to Payton’s mother, who died last week.

At APSE, the Tennessee beat writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel details a project charting the Volunteers’ recruiting.