It’s been a busy week for us and our Venn diagram of interests, which often separates sports into a separate bucket. More often than not, that often provides us a welcome distraction from more troubling issues or a celebration of how much sports matters to media these days. Yesterday, neither was the case by a … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, DoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. The World Series opens tomorrow night outside the United States for only the second time in history when the Los Angeles Dodgers cross the border to … Read more
You may have already concluded that I’ve been particularly hard on one David Zaslav in these musings. The fact that pretty much his entire tenure as head honcho at Warner Brothers Discovery has essentially correlated with the existence of this space has helped to make him a familiar target, and the sheer number of times … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site, DoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts, plus occasional essays on business and technology. My love of NBA basketball began when I first became a fan–around the very same time the unsuccessful New York Knicks traded slow-footed veteran Walt Bellamy to … Read more
It was somehow apropos that CBS premiered not one but two new scripted procedurals on Friday night that not only was part of the premiere week they had promoted for almost six months straight but also in the same week when open enrollment on Medicare began. The numbers don’t lie–an overwhelming amount of those who … Read more
One could easily make the case that Ben Stiller’s success was genetically engineered. As the by-product of the prolific and enduring comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, whose off-screen love endured for 61 years of marriage, it’s easy to see where he got his ability to morph into memorable characters (Y chromosome) and … Read more
Happy No Kings Day to you, too. I have this tremendous sense of deja vu considering we apparently had this Day of Days a mere four months ago. Regular readers and those capable of clicking on a link know how I felt about all of this then. Probably not as giddy and anticipatory as a … Read more
If you were laying out prop “bets” on your favorite social gambling site before the 2025-26 TV season technically began on which show would be showing the greatest degree of improvement you would have been hard-pressed to convince me to even drop four bits on Kalshi on DANCING WITH THE STARS. I’ll admit Ive been … Read more
It was most def one of THOSE days for me yesterday, and that’s not just because a reality check on my excuse for a bank account revealed that despite a momentary blip of hope it will be nay impossible for me to afford even the most spartan of excursions to simply see my best friend … Read more
I have always been a fan of live theater, although I rarely have had the funds to be able to attend as many such events as I’d like. In my early New York days when my bank account was in only slightly better shape than it is now, having the same last name as the … Read more