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 […]
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 […]
January 28, 2017 at 10:55 am
With apologies to The Temptations, sports journalism in the year 2017 is a “Ball of Confusion”… Not a socially conscious song that fits the times but rather a jumble of ideas and “Hot Topics” that vie for our attention…Newspapers, don’t read them…local (Sports) News, don’t watch it… Sports Talk Radio, all they do is yell […]
When Knute Rockne evoked the name of George Gipp at halftime of the 1928 Notre Dame – Army football game, I don’t think he had twenty-first century journalism in mind… But just like Rockne was trying to rally the troops, so too has a new tool rallied the internet world of sports journalism, the GIF…Pronounce […]
April 24, 2016 at 8:49 am
Okay, show of hands….How many of you have been to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, or Creston, Iowa or Butte, Montana?… Well, get familiar because that’s where the jobs are!…And you know what?…That’s a good thing…Smaller markets are where you really learn your craft, where you make mistakes that won’t get you fired and where you […]
April 17, 2016 at 10:45 am
Do you have to be a former athlete (at a high level) to comment on TV, radio and in the media?….Are they the only ones who truly understand what’s happening on the court(field,ice)?…. I think it depends on who you talk to… For every Boomer Esiason and Jay Bilas there’s a Magic Johnson and Trev […]
“Be aggressive!”…Maybe easier said than done, especially for someone who’s never been in a locker room or asked a coach how they gave up six goals or had more followers than just family and friends…But to listen to Jared Carrabis tell it, what do you have to lose?….Carrabis and Joon Lee have resumes that 30 something(s) […]
March 27, 2016 at 10:55 am
I have to admit, I listen to sports talk radio in Boston but as someone who worked in television for a hundred years and had six, yes six, tv’s blaring in my office 24 hours a day, it’s as much for the noise as anything else…Breaking news doesn’t exist much on radio and those updates […]
March 20, 2016 at 11:09 am
Your assignment is simple…show up at the game, talk about what’s going on with the person sitting next to you, get excited and when it’s all over, go to the bank and deposit a check!….How could this not be the best gig in sports journalism? The answer? – it is!….It’s play by play and any […]
March 11, 2016 at 10:19 am
They have become a punch line….less than a week after resigning as a reporter for ComcastSportsNet, Jess Moran and Red Sox Manager John Farrell are a joke, literally! In an story about how Boston’s winter teams are enjoying success, Dan Shaughnessey quips “The Celtics’ and Bruins” seasons might last longer than John Farrell as Red […]
