I really wish that we had the time today to “live blog” the first-round of the PGA Championship, but since it seems like none of us do, we’ll offer someone else who is. The best one out there today seems to be Jason Sobel, on ESPN. We hate to feed the beast, but you can’t [...]
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The Media Arms Race In College Football
As conference media days took place across the country the past two weeks, the SEC once again stole the college football spotlight, although not through on-field performance. Rather, by announcing the release of the SEC Digital Network and the creation of the SEC Network, both of which premiere in August. The SEC Digital Network, a [...]
It Pains Me, Pat, But I Beg To Differ
There’s an NFC South blogger named Pat Yasinskas – no idea how to pronounce that – who has, with responsibilities for Buccaneers, Falcons, Panthers, and Saints, determined that he has eminent domain over Michael Vick banter on ESPN until he signs with another team. Pat cut his teeth with The Charlotte Observer before ESPN.
As a [...]
Is the East Coast Bias Deserved?
Over the last five or so years, one of the most trendy things to complain about is ESPN’s East Coast bias – that is if you don’t live in the East Coast. The complaint is that ESPN and other major sports media carry more Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Celtics, etc games than say, Dodgers, Royals, [...]
The Favre Saga Continues! The Longest Streak of Consecutive “Sikes” In Sports (Human?) History
And you thought Jordan took a while to come, and go, and come, and go… We loved it when he came back the first time. Watching that sleek, smooth basketball player swimming in his minor league White Sox uniform, wearing the double-ear flap helmet was a little sad. Before we knew it he was back [...]
That’s Why They Play the Games. Thankfully the Baseball Writers Don’t Choose the Playoff Teams.
Between March 30 and April 6 each and every year baseball pundits think long and hard. They take out their cauldrons, mix in last season’s results, add in each team’s off-season roster maneuvers, toss in some consideration for player growth/regressions, add in some magic potion, and voila, they have their pre-season predictions. Some pontificators use [...]
MLB Opening Day: It’s 3pm and…
I’ve been watching ESPN’s MLB Scoreboard for 2+ hours. A few thoughts for your afternoon poo-er:
Good Lord should Cliff Lee be bothering owners right now. The Indians are down 4-0 in Texas, with Lee providing the fastballs resulting in all four earned runs, on six hits, in two innings. K:BB is 1:1. 28 strikes and [...]
All Hail, the Fantasy Expert!
The so-called Talented Mr. Roto, though I continue to question the adjective there, at least never ceases to amaze in one talent: the ability to take the hobby of fantasy sports commentary to another level, making a job out of such commentary, without really ever demonstrating any differentiated knowledge of the subject.
Normally I tend to [...]
