Monthly Archives: March 2015

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun…

March 29, 2015 at 9:33 am

It’s been over twenty years since Cyndi Lauper’s anthem rocketed her to stardom in the music world but some of her lyrics ring true even now…And of all those lyrics perhaps the one that rings most true for the working woman is “I want to be the one to walk in the sun“…Naoko Funayama and […]

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If That Don’t Beat All!

March 22, 2015 at 1:31 pm

There’s a hierarchy to sports journalism jobs and while you might think beat reporting is all fancy hotels and charter flights, think again….it’s not a place where you start, maybe not even a place you finish but with apologies to Charles Dickens, it can be “the best of times, the worst of times”… Who doesn’t want […]

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Where Your Story Starts

March 14, 2015 at 12:46 pm

The best thing about talking to a sports journalist is that everyone has the same story…not exactly the same, of course, but without exception everyone remembers their first job, their first break, their first smile…Mine came in grad school while researching a story about cable television at Malden Cablevision, a local origination station (LOS) tucked […]

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They Are Just Like Us…(or are they?)

March 1, 2015 at 10:45 am

I want to win!…there, i said it…but then again, who doesn’t…we learn a lot about ourselves when we play sports but let’s be realistic, if I’m gonna play, I want to win!…Sure, I learn something when I lose but face it, winning feels much better… And so it is that we try to explain the […]

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