This little item about another upcoming show hit the trade presses Monday afternoon, this iteration courtesy of CBS PITTSBURGH’s Garrett Behanna: The Pittsburgh Steelers, with the other three teams in the AFC North, will be featured during the in-season edition of “Hard Knocks.” NFL insider Field Yates shared the news on X Monday afternoon. The … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.theDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of sports and the media that covers it. This is the third time this year across our two sites that I’ve been motivated to offer a musing involving Caitlin Clark and women’s basketball. That alone should reinforce … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com Please visit it regularly for additional sports coverage. As this is being written, they’re warming up at Stade Roland Garros in Paris for the men’s final of the 2024 French Open. It’s actually a pretty decent match-up with some potentially historic implications, as CNN’s … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime . Please visit it regularly for observations and insights specific to sports. I’ve been fortunate enough to have attended a couple of Super Bowls in person, the most recent being the Steelers-Cardinals showdown in Tampa in February 2009. It was a thrill to … Read more
Our long national nightmare is over. After months of speculation and out-and-out snarking from both sports fans and so-called media pundits alike (including moi, I confess), the unholy alliance of Yosemite Zas, Foxy Lachsie and Bob AIger took advantage of the waning moments of upfront week to make news, such as this summation from THE … Read more
I like live TV. Be it sports, news or comedy, I like the possibility of seeing something occur in real time, unvarnished, unexpected that will give me a momentary advantage on most of the world for being aware of something at least buzzworthy, if not historic. So I’m still one of the Luddites that at … Read more
You’ll have to forgive our ol’ pal Yosemite Zas if he seemed a little out of place last night. There he was, the Long Island native and presumed Knicks fan, leading off a post-time out segment of celebrity attendee spottings at last night’s Knicks playoff game, on no less than TNT, what remains of truTV … Read more
Maybe I’m late to this particular party, but in the last couple of days it’s become far more apparent to me that there are two newspapers in Los Angeles that are unapolgetically biased in their coverage of UCLA sports. One is the school’s longtime house organ, THE DAILY BRUIN. The other, apparently more so than … Read more
Amidst a somewhat tumultuous week for certain divisions of NBCUniversal (make sure you return that IPad, Ronna, not that you were around long enough to have it set up for you), some news came out of the Peacock camp that seemed to trumpet that they found the secret sauce to streaming success. Put a … Read more
On yet another dreary rainy afternoon, my phone began to go nuts just after lunch. Friends I do have were eager to share with me the news that shook up their day, as well as just about everyone who covers or is merely a fan of sports media. These things tend to happen when the … Read more