Just in time for the 2024-25 NBA season, and early enough in the NHL and college seasons to be forgiven, sports TV is getting yet another rebrand. USA TODAY’s media reporter Mark Giannoto broke the news to his handful of readers last week: Bally Sports is no more. Diamond Sports Group announced that it will … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com. Please visit it regularly for opinions on sports of all sorts. When ESPN recently had a few stray weeknights where they were scrambling to find live content to fill prime time hours they turned to women’s college volleyball for a short-lived schedule of matches … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com. Please visit it regularly for musings on sports. Yesterday should have been more celebratory for moi. Thanks to a one-time surprise gift and some opportune timingin hitting up an aftermarket ticket site, I was able to secure a nosebleed ticket for what turned out to … Read more
The Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers shocked casual baseball fans and thrilled their ardent supporters with surprising road upsets in their respective Wild Card Series. The Tigers will now be moving on to face a Cleveland Guardians team that won that potent Central Division, the first time these original American League teams will face … Read more
Ryan Murphy and his team are no strangers to tackling stories of morally ambiguous and salacious protagonists. This has been particularly true with his series of AMERICAN STORIES that have cemented FX’s place in the entertainment ecosystem for such showcasings. AMERICAN HORROR STORY was the first of these anthologies, and was able to attract both … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of all things sports. I am unapolgetically a huge fan of Kelly Kahl’s, and not just because he ultimately rose farther than just about anyone else who once called research his calling, ultimately becoming the president of … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for expanded coverage of sports, as well as feature articles from Binary Web. Forget what your calendar and thermometer might otherwise be telling you. Autumn has officially begun, and it’s not just because pumpkin lattes are back on Starbucks’ menus … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly to access stories on sports. To say that there’s a rift between Adam Silver and David Zaslav would be putting it mildly. Based upon what went down late Friday night, it’s more apparent than ever that neither one’s gonna be … Read more
NOTE: This story also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime (thedoubleovertime.com) Please visit it regularly for musings on sports. The Olympics are providing an awful lot of wonderful stories so far at a time when they are SORELY needed. Many involve the expected that had had previous glory and notoriety, such as the … Read more
I’m arguably as passionate and diverse a sports fan as you will find, and based on how my life has been going of late I consider my media subscriptions to be sacrosanct priorities to keep my sanity. And since I don’t exactly have unlimited funds, I’m forever looking for ways to save a few bucks … Read more