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Snap-on parts to today's Daily News media column: ==For those who need to hear it straight-up from Stuart Scott about what he's been going through lately with that appendix thing and all the stuff afterward, here's a voice clip that ESPN provided at this link, complete with a punctuated "boo-yah" at the end. ==More backlash from the networks hooking microphones and adding locker room cameras to NBA coverage, as we tried to get into last week: ESPN had to apologize to Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan for allowing a four letter word to get on the air, on tape, as he was addressing his team at halftime of their game against Phoenix last week. "We apologize for the inadvertent expletive during a taped halftime segment. ... It was said quietly, and we missed it," said ABC/ESPN spokesman Mark Mandel, to the Rocky Mountain news. Sloan told the Deseret News in Utah of his expletive making it on-air: "They told me there wouldn't be any mistakes. I was guaranteed that there would be nothing that would go over the air, when (the NBA) first came out and talked about (putting a camera and microphone in the locker room) -- a guarantee that there will be nothing that will be harmful to you. Now I end up the bad guy right off the bat. They misrepresented the whole situation to me." ==Among the "Media Circus" awards for 2007 by Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch: +Person of the Year: Fox Sports' Jay Glazer +Best announcing team: Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson, CBS college football (Lundquist, by the way, is matched with Billy Packer on Saturday's UCLA-Michigan game on the network at 11 a.m.) +Best newcomer: Charles Davis, Fox Sports college football Along with Deitsch's 10 more memorable media moments from the past year was WNBC TV's erroneous story last week just prior to the Mitchell Report that named the Dodgers' Normar Garciaparra, the Yankees' Johnny Damon, St. Louis' Albert Pujols and Boston's Jason Varitek as expected to be among those accused to be performance enhancing users. WNBC's Jonathan Dienst said he posted the list because he received it from two separate credible sources. “We checked it and rechecked it. … I am very sorry for the mistake," Dienst told the New York Post. The list was taken off the WNBC website after some MLB officials saw the mistakes, but by then, CNBC.com and The Drudge Report had picked up that false story. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that KTVI, the local Fox affiliate, also reported the false list while KMOV, the CBS' affiliate, was more cautious and didn't. Deitsch points out that WNBC eventually had some explaining to do. ==Read on, if you must ...