It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and that always means a day devoted slavishly to watching TV. And for many of my onetime friends and colleagues at FOX Sports, who are carrying today’s event, they are especially eager to see this day come. It’s the first-ever post-season matchup of Philadelphia and Kansas City, two teams with only … Read more
It was yet another slow and, frankly, lonely day, one that I’d hoped would have been shared with friends watching the NFL conference championships, but those two damn pesky realities, lack of money and lack of healthy football-loving people willing to have someone over, got in the way. So I wound up scrolling for something … Read more
I still have a few friends who are invested and proactive enough to forward me articles that will potemtially inspire my own takes. The nature of such support with people whose lives are far busier than mine is typically when a headline or a first graf catches their eye and then invites me to parse … Read more
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Much like many other daily media efforts during this time of year, we’re reprising “best of” from the soon-to-be ending year (and not a minute too soon, may I add). Each day, we will attempt to connect something that may happen in the world with something we previously mused on. Of all of … Read more
Less than twenty-four hours ago Grant Wahl was tweeting about the thrilling Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal match, reporting onsite just as he had done at seven previous World Cups, previously as a correspondent for CBS and FOX Sports as well as Sports Illustrated. The Dutch tied up the match with two thrilling second half goals, … Read more
Yes, you read the headlight right. Still. I first uttered those words when I saw a 1983 commercial he filmed shortly after he won the Heisman Trophy as a junior star running back at the University of Georgia, where he sported an Adidas T-Shirt and shilled for McDonald’s Big Macs. He had also made history … Read more
It’s a simple, and, on the surface, a fairly ludicrous question. I can look at statistics, and in the mirror, and I can make the following empirical observations, p — I’m white. In 2021, 59% of U.S. citizens are . (Statista) — I identify as heterosexual. In 2021, 93% of U.S. citizens identify as white. … Read more
The Boston Celtics are beginning the defense of their surprising run to the NBA Eastern Conference championship with a new, interim head coach. As any basketball fan knows, the rookie head coach that led them to that runm Ime Udoka, has been given a one-year suspension, the result of an external legal firm’s investigation into … Read more
So a mere few hours before its second NFL Thursday night game, Amazon Prime Video finally announced the official tallies of viewership for their first a week earlier. Not exactly an overnight rating, for a number of both legitimate and red tape reasons, but in many ways worth the wait. Sports and business media, not … Read more
Vin Scully was such a master of the spoken word, the one time I heard him say “f-ck”, even that word sounded eloquent. Once upon a time, I had a big enough job at a company that actually owned the Los Angeles Dodgers to warrant VIP treatment. One of the only true perks I tried … Read more