Another Friday Megalinks Edition
Time once again to provide the Friday megalinks. Lots of links to get to. Don’t forget to check out the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and primetime viewing. To the links. National One story that’s developing this afternoon. Pro Football Talk goes after ESPN Boston’s Patriots blog for plagiarizing word for word one of its articles written by Michael David Smith. A few stories from USA Today. Michael Hiestand

WEEI Holds Steady, 98.5 Continues Rise, FOX Dumps Butch Stearns
The latest radio ratings are out, and 98.5 continues to surprise with their solid gains in the sports radio market. WEEI is doing just fine, though, actually moving up a bit from 5.2 in September to 5.3 in October. The station is fourth overall on the chart while WBZ-FM, 985TheSportsHub went from a 2.5 in September to a 3.6 in October, good for 14th in the market. WEEI vs. The Sports Hub - Jessica Heslam in the Herald breaks down the two stations, show vs. show.

Week Log: Another Little Souvenir of a Terrible Year
If part of your life is defined by the Boston sports experience as is mine, then any year involving both a Lakers and Yankees championship can’t be completely good. Sure, if the other guy wins, that means our guy doesn’t, but it’s also very much about who that other guy is. It took a summer for me to deal with the Lakers’ title, and I’ll get over the Yankees’ too, but in the meantime I need some Yankee hating to get me through. Surviving Grady absolutely hits this thing right on the head in assessing the indignation of a Yankees championship.

Was Joey Porter Baited By the Boston Media?
I hate to do this, I really do, but I think Joey Porter needs to be defended a little bit here… This morning’s articles, and in sports flashes and reports over the air since yesterday afternoon have, with a couple of exceptions, painted Joey Porter’s conference call with Boston reporters yesterday as just another Patriots hate session from the Dolphins linebacker. Yes, Porter makes no secret of the fact that he hates the Patriots, and thinks that “Spygate” cost him two Super Bowl championships. However, duri

Celtics Fight Off T-Wolves
The Celtics got their most strenuous test of the young season last night, holding off the Minnesota Timberwolves last night 92-90 to stay perfect on the season at 6-0. Frank Dell’Apa has the Celtics unable to find and offensive flow for most of the game, but able to get the hoops when needed and make stops defensively when it counted. Mark Murphy credits the Celtics’ experience for the win.