Monthly Archives: February 2017

Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder…

February 25, 2017 at 4:58 pm

I’ll take Play by Play for $200 Alex……”I don’t know but I know it when i hear it”….Ding!…”What did Bob Crawford respond when asked what makes a good call? Is it the vocabulary?…Is it the the voice?…Is it the intensity of the call?…. It’s probably all those things but if you’ve watched sports for more […]

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Whose Relationship is This?

February 19, 2017 at 9:22 am

They used to call it “Public Relations”…now it’s “Media Relations”….I’m applying for a new category, “Player Relations”… In this age of social media and sites like The Players Tribune, it seems as if the people that work for the team as liaisons with the press wind up spending more time putting out fires with the […]

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A Fine Line….

February 5, 2017 at 8:20 am

“They’re just people like you and me”…We hear that all the time when trying to explain how to interview, how to get close to an athlete…But what that doesn’t take into account is that, often times, there’s a a jealousy, maybe even an envy going on, in that these same athletes can swish a basket […]

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