Monthly Archives: April 2017

How Big is Big…

April 30, 2017 at 9:00 am

Covering high school and local sports isn’t quite the same as going to the Super Bowl four times, the World Series three times, the Stanley Cup Finals twice, the N-B-A finals four times or the Olympics…But on your road up the sports journalism ladder you’d be wise to treat it that way…Because to the people […]

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And Away You Go…..

April 21, 2017 at 3:06 pm

1735 DeSales Street, NW Washington DC 20036!…I still remember it, some forty years later after i started applying for my first television job…That was the address i’d send my three quarter inch tape to, never to see it again…The DeSales Street address was where Broadcasting Magazine was located, literally the ONLY classified page for on […]

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The Film the NFL Doesn’t Want You to See…

April 9, 2017 at 8:04 am

It’s no wonder that the National Football League doesn’t want you to watch “The United States of Football”…What is amazing is the number of interviews, hours and footage Sean Pamphilon spent putting this together…It is simply brilliant… Intended to explore the violence and physical contact in the N-F-L and football in general, the film underscores […]

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It’s Not Just a Game…..

April 2, 2017 at 10:32 am

I suppose if you came right down to it , you could say Sports and/in Society goes as far back as the Roman days when emperors put on shows at the Colosseum for their own glory and pleasure but just as much for entertainment of the masses…There was wrestling, boxing, racing (think chariot races in […]

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