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
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
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
I’ve never worked for ESPN, but plenty of really talented and decent people I’ve known personally, some from college and some from professional alliances, have. Some still do, though in recent years that list has diminished significantly. I especially miss the ones who routinely handed out branded swag like Tic Tacs at various events they … Read more