Monthly Archives: September 2012

You’ve Come a Long Way Baby…or have you?

September 30, 2012 at 10:37 am

The 1968 slogan for a popular cigarette might very well be relevant now but if you were lucky enough to be on hand for our Women in Sports seminar at Boston University you might just wonder…Digit Murphy, the long time head women’s ice hockey coach at Brown University was quick to point out that despite […]

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Can’t Be Beat….

September 23, 2012 at 8:40 am

Fancy hotels, daily access to the locker room, a press pass to all the games…What could be bad?…. Beat reporting is sometimes all of those but more often than not it’s a twenty four a day job and can be daunting at times…Depending on the beat you are lucky enough to secure and in what […]

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Journalist or Entertainer

September 16, 2012 at 10:25 am

It comes in all shapes and sizes but sports information on the internet knows no boundaries…home grown websites, twitter, wildly commercial pop up laden pages likes ESPN.com and Sports.yahoo.com, even Facebook put sports news forward all day….But one thing they don’t do is differentiate between journalism and entertainment…that’s left up to you… I’m not sure […]

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Shotgun Sports Journalism

September 6, 2012 at 10:57 am

Junior Walker would be proud….Yeah, I know I’m dating myself but what else is new?….1961 was the date, “Shotgun” was the hit, the first of many….Who knew that more than fifty years later, ‘ shotgun’ would become a term used to describe a form of sports journalism …it’s not covering a story, it’s not reporting what […]

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