Monthly Archives: October 2010

Let Me Entertain You

“Down goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier! down goes Frazier!”…”Do you believe in miracles?”….”I can’t believe what i just saw!”.. Everyone has their own favorite…that one call that capped off a championship, won a world series, brought home a title….But usually that’s just the final seconds of a game and it’s the job […]

Will Competition Make Sports Talk Radio Better?

In most cities, you didn’t have a choice…one sports talk radio station was it…But here in Boston, thanks to some good hires, there’s competition…and the listeners are the benefactors… Granted, much of it is local and that, in and of itself, narrows the scope of what’s covered, but two important things have happened to the […]

Act Like You’ve Been There Before, Even if You Haven’t

The locker room is an office, not yours, but theirs…and in many ways, it’s their home as well…When reporters cram into that space, and remember, stay behind the line!, they need to remember there are rules….While it may not be high on the priority list, being interviewed is part of an athlete’s job description…Whether it’s […]

NFL’s Greatest Ever? – Not Even Close

I just read where the NFL Network is running a list of the 100 greatest players ever…The final ten won’t be released until early November so i thought i’d let you know there should be no discussion here, absolutely none…argue willie mays, babe ruth, hank aaron in basbeall…bill russell, wilt chamberlain, michael jordan, larry, magic […]

Women in the Locker: Separate and Equal

Patriots founder Billy Sullivan wouldn’t have it…Red Auerbach ordered bathrobes for his players…Red Sox players have been romantically linked…At different times and in different places, women sports reporters have had to work very hard to be accepted…With more and more women going into the field, the landscape and the mindset have changed…But if there’s one […]

Local TV Sports: Coming or Going?

It may be unthinkable…But one of these days, as they’ve done in Albany, New York and Tampa, Florida, for example, you’re going to read that one of the local Boston stations has cut sports from its local newscast…There will be the attendant vocalizing, “how can they do that?…Don’t they know what a big sports town […]