Bye-bye, shaving cream pie

May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

Add this to the list of tired sports-on-TV high jinks: the shaving cream pie to the face during baseball post-game interviews. It hasn’t quite reached football’s Gatorade dump on the coach yet, but the pie face, as an occasional prank, used to be kind of amusing. But it seems to happen more and more now, [...]

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What They’re Saying- May 29, 2009

May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

After a one week hiatus we are back to bring you links to what some of the sports media columnists from around the country are writing about today… Richard Sandomir at the NY Times tells us how the Mets announcers have been busy using instant replay… Neil Best at Newsday also delves into how television [...]

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Expectant Orioles fans

May 28, 2009 | Comments Off

One of the many things the sports media do is build a set of expectations. Here in Baltimore, we’re seeing that put into play as the Orioles call up the player widely regarded as baseball’s No. 1 prospect, catcher Matt Wieters. The club itself helped crank up the hype machine by announcing on Tuesday — [...]

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NBA > Jon & Kate

May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

Monday’s Game 4 of the Nuggets-Lakers series drew 9.88 million viewers, establishing highs for any basketball game ever on ESPN, any NBA game ever on cable and any cable program this year. Though I don’t necessarily root for ratings, the fact that a basketball game apparently out-rated the season debut of TLC’s highly publicized Jon [...]

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SMJ Podcast- Blogs With Balls

May 27, 2009 | Comments Off

Being one who is interested in emerging technologies and sports media, I am extremely intrigued by the upcoming Blogs With Balls conference slated for June 13th in New York City. I had the opportunity to preview the conference with Chris Lucas of HHR Media. Chris also writes for the popular Hugging Harold Reynolds sports blog. [...]