I’m an unapologetic shill for Jason Benetti, who has been leading the NBC/Peacock Sunday Night Baseball team this year that will fully segue to the mothership linear platform tonight now that their NBA basketball coverage has come to its seasonal end. AP’s Joe Reddy considers this enough of a significant news event to have dropped … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sports plus occasional essays on business and technology. Well, NOW you can consider upfront week closed. No matter how much or little detail was offered by the various companies that trotted out … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus essays on business and technology. I’ve been there for the births of the American Basketball Association, the World Hockey Association, the World Football League, two versions of the United States … Read more
Dianne Russini has been a celebrated and respected reporter for such notable outlets as WNBC-TV, WRC-TV, ESPN and most recently THE ATHLETIC for the better part of the last two decades. When she transitioned to the digital realm she was reportedly given a substantial increase in salary and a prominent role in their podcasting universe … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus essays on business and technology. It’s not easy for me to acknowledge when PUCK gets something first and right. I can’t say I’m a fan of its founder and champion to … Read more
It was all the more serendipitous that during a week where the world celebrates resurrection baseball fans were able to celebrate one of their own. We got our first whiff of it on Wednesday courtesy of AWFUL ANNOUNCING’s Sam Neumann: This Week in Baseball is coming back. MLB announced Wednesday that it’s reviving the iconic TWIB franchise as … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. For as much progress as women’s basketball has made in finding its way into the zeitgeist and recorded viewing behaviors of sports fans they had sort of … Read more
It’s major league baseball’s opening day, which to me is justification for a national holiday. Technically, the season had already opened last night, when the Yankees steamrolled through the Giants (and my supposed fantasy team ace Logan Webb) 7-0, despite an 0-for-5 performance with FOUR strikeouts from the defending two-time AL MVP Aaron Judge. But … Read more
The NBA season resumes tonight after a six-day sabbatical with a robust slate of ten games, including a highly anticipated litmus test for the league’s surprisingly front-running Detroit Pistons in both the spotlight and crosshairs of Madison Square Garden for a globally streamed showdown with league management and domestic media rights owners’ pre-season favorite for … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. You regular readers (and I’m hoping there may indeed be a few more of you each time I make this passive-aggressive plea for engagement since the … Read more