February 3, 2018 at 2:06 pm
Of all the four major sports, basketball brings players into its league at the youngest age…Say what you want about the “one and done” phenomenon, players are coming in as teenagers at a higher rate…Boston Celtics swingman Jaylen Brown visited the Boston University Sports Seminar series last year and was younger than everybody in the […]
January 27, 2018 at 1:02 pm
So you think you want to work in the “glamorous” world of sports journalism, do you? But before you answer that, ask yourself if you have what it takes….You’ve decided you’re all in to “low pay, long hours” mindset but there’s a lot more to it in 2018…Can you shoot and edit your own video?…Can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
March 26, 2017 at 11:34 am
Everyone has a story… How they got started, how they got someone to take a chance on them… Freelancing, working for the student radio or tv station in college is a great beginning but it doesn’t usually pay the bills…That’s where the challenge comes… My story is written in hieroglyphics in the building at 640 […]
March 18, 2017 at 1:23 pm
“We play the bad guy, we play the villian”… Now there’s a way to start a seminar!… Sports Talk Radio is about to explode in Boston…Oh sure, we’ve had two stations for close to eight years but with both stations now being owned by the same corporation, something has to give…And maybe it just might […]
March 7, 2017 at 12:43 pm
“I wrote maybe 14, 15 stories throughout the game”…What, how many?…”Some of them were 5, 600 hundred words, others after the game were in the thousands”… Such is the life of a modern day beat writer, in this case Zack Cox of NESN, who covers the New England Patriots (and was referring to February 5th […]
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 […]
