What They’re Saying- April 24th, 2009

April 24, 2009 | Comments Off

Here are what some of the sports media columnists from across the country are writing this Friday… Neil Best at Newsday does a marathon viewing of the MLB Network… Phil Mushnick at the NY Post questions the questions being ask of the Mets by SNY broadcasters…Justin Terranova talks Yanks-Sox with Tim McCarver…He also has 5 [...]

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Deadlines Now Mean Bad News for Sports Fans

April 22, 2009 | Comments Off

This post should be filed under the category of “why bother”… Even with the financial obstacles facing the newspaper industry, you would think their priority is, first and foremost, continuing to produce a timely, professional product. Well that’s not necessarily the case. And the readers are the ones who are suffering. I live in Rhode [...]

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What They’re Saying- April 17th, 2009

April 17, 2009 | Comments Off

It’s been quite the week in sports media, highlighted by the passing of Harry Kalas and the retirement of John Madden. Let’s see what some of the print newspaper sports media columnists have in their paper today… Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has some local numbers from last week’s Masters. Bill Doyle at [...]

Apr

15

ESPNChicago and the Future of Local Sports Coverage

April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

ESPNChicago launched this week to some mixed reviews — not of its content, which should still be the quality ESPN coverage you’re used to, but it’s existence at all. Deadspin writer Dashiell Bennett’s wonders why we need this at all. Don’t newspapers already cover this? Isn’t this just “co-opting” what they do? Dan Shanoff, on [...]

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Connecting to Harry Kalas

April 14, 2009 | Comments Off

Longtime Philadelphia broadcaster Harry Kalas died unexpectedly yesterday in Washington at the age of 73. You can get complete coverage of the circumstances of his death and the reaction to it over at Philly.com. Even though I am not a fan of the Philadelphia sports scene, when I heard the news of Kalas’ passing, I [...]

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