Monthly Archives: April 2009
What They’re Saying- April 10, 2009
Time for our Friday look at what the print sports media columnists are writing for today’s papers…
David Barron of the Houston Chronicle says Astros play-by-play man Milo Hamilton will do more for the club than just call the games…
Dave Darling at the Orlando Sentinel previews an HBO documentary on the rivalry between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier…
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also previews the HBO Doc.
In New York Bob Raissman of the NY Daily News tells us Chris Russo and XM-Sirius Radio will not be allowed at the opening of the two Gotham baseball stadiums…
Phil Mushnick of the NY Post shares with us his media opinions on the New York baseball teams and their new stadiums…
Bill Doyle of the Worcester Telegram talks Masters with CBS’ Nick Faldo…
Mel Bracht at the Oklahoman also talks Masters. He also gives us his weekly local media notebook.
Diane Pucin at the LA Times talks Masters with ESPN’s Mike Tirico…
And John Maffei at the North County Times speaks golf with CBS’ Jim Nantz…
Jay Posner at the San Diego Union Tribune has reaction to the end of a local sports radio show…
The Baltimore Sun’s Ray Frager goes after ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd in his weekly notes column…
Tom Hoffarth at the LA Daily News talks about ESPN’s new SportsCenter venture in L.A.
Ray Buck of the Fort Worth Star Telegram looks at the new Fox baseball pre-game show…
Among his media notes, Barry Jackson at the Miami Herald looks at how the Masters and MMA are embracing televised coverage on the Internet…
Dan Caesar at the St. Louis Post Dispatch has a report on how Fox Sports Midwest will handle Cardinals and Blues conflicts…
Random Video Clip #22
The Masters begins today…and with the return to major tournament play by Tiger Woods, what better clip to show than this from 2005;
ESPN Continues to Try Too Hard
I usually don’t comment about the endless promotions at ESPN. Most are effective, others are just plain silly. Case in point on the latter is the current cross platform campaign on ESPN.com for ESPN Radio.
In an effort to get more listeners to their radio products, the WWL is using its website to get listeners to find their ESPN Radio Match, pairing listeners with their most compatible ESPN Radio host. There is a survey in the right sidebar to help listeners meet their radio “mate”. The most disturbing part of the promotion are the videos which accompany each ESPN Radio host as they describe their perfect “match”. Here is Mike Greenberg’s video…
Mike Goilic
Scott Van Pelt
All the national ESPN Radio personalities have profiles. There are also selected profiles of sports talk hosts from the ESPN-controlled local stations…like Michael Irvin in Dallas and John “Jurko” Jurkovic from ESPN Chicago.
This is another great example of ESPN having nothing better to do than to cheapen their product with such an idiotic stunt. Why not spend that energy and resources to improving the product. ESPN does itself no good in resorting to this type of “lowest common denominator” promotion.
What They’re Saying- April 3, 2009
It seemed like there were way too many April Fools jokes played over the Internet this week. Not here. Time for our look at what some of the sports media columnists are writing today…
Michael Hiestand at USA Today shares with us plans by the MLB Network to enhance some of the greatest plays in baseball history…
Dave Darling at the Orlando Sentinel looks at how the MLB Network is set to complete with ESPN for the eyes of baseball fans…
More on this from Mel Bracht at the Oklahoman. Mel also offers up the local MLB TV schedule as well as his weekly notes…
Also chiming in on the MLB Network is Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…
And Nancy Marrapese Burrell at the Boston Globe…
Richard Sandomir at the NY Times gives us more on the significance of the new ball fields set to open in New York…
Justin Terranova at the NY Post talks New York baseball with YES’ John Flaherty.
Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News says its time the Yankees address the reality of needing to replace lomg time P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard…
Barry Jackson at the Miami Herald talks about the good news and bad news of local sports television coverage for Marlins and Panthers fans…
Scott D. Pierce at the Salt Lake City Desert News has some criticism of the TV coverage of the MLS Real Salt Lake…
Ray Buck at the Fort Worth Star Telegram talks NASCAr with Fox’ Darrell Waltrip..
Jim Carlisle at the Ventura County Star has word of the increased ratings CBS has expereinced with the NCAA Tournament so far this year.
Tom Hoffarth at the LA Daily News previews a book about the history of the Dodgers during the ownership of Walter O’Malley…
John Maffei at the North County Times talks about the good and the bad of holding the Final Four in the huge venue that is Ford Field…
More on CBS’ coverage of the Final Four from Diane Pucin of the LA Times…
As part of his weekly notes, Ray Frager at the Baltimore Sun talks O’s coverage on MASN.
Paul Christian at the Rochester (MN) Post Bulletin has the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball crew’s thoughts on the Twins…
Jay Posner at the San Diego Union Tribune previews the new voice of the Padres, Mark Neely. Jay also reports on a local news station bolstering its sports staff…
Marc Katz at the Dayton Daily News tells us that the Single A Dayton Dragons will be televised again this season…
Dan Caesar at the St. Louis Post Dispatch talks with former St. Louis, and now ESPN anchor Trey Wingo heading into the Women’s Final Four in St. Louis…
