Sports Summises

NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime.  Please visit regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional stories on business and technology. I’ve watched a LOT of television over my MANY tours around the sun.  Genre-wise, I suspect it defaults to game shows, though I’ll remind anyone … Read more

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

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