Liberte!  Egalite!  Obscurite?!

Liberte! Egalite! Obscurite?!

  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

Luka?  Jaylen?  I’m Rooting For Chuckster.

Luka? Jaylen? I’m Rooting For Chuckster.

  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

Roast Tom.  No Turkey.

Roast Tom. No Turkey.

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

Bird>Rabbit>Man>Fish

Bird>Rabbit>Man>Fish

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

Slow Clap Or Eight Clap?

Slow Clap Or Eight Clap?

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

Bird Bites Man?

Bird Bites Man?

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

And Here’s To You, Mr. Levinsohn

And Here’s To You, Mr. Levinsohn

When news broke last month that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED was found to be increasingly reliant on AI-generated content, even creating deep-fake profiles of non-existent journalists in the process, I, like many of those who immediately empathized with the human reporters who uncovered this behavior, laid the blame squarely at the feet of the man in charge, … Read more

For The Love Of The Game.  And The Money.

For The Love Of The Game. And The Money.

If there was any doubt whatsoever of the stranglehold that the National Football League has on America’s emotions and behavior, the events of this holiday weekend should convince even the most skeptical of us that there is scant little else that can get people, organizations–heck, even state leaders–to fall at the sport’s gladitorial feet and … Read more