February 28, 2016 at 8:31 am
I sit here trying to write something scholarly about Rob King‘s visit to the B-U sports journalism seminar series and all I can think about it watching Steph Curry’s Saturday night performance against Oklahoma City AGAIN!!… I mean, i loved Oscar Robertson and still think he was one of the top ten all time players […]
February 21, 2016 at 4:15 am
You might not come face to face with Travis Bickle in a professional locker room/clubhouse but overstep your bounds and a media relations person just might pull you aside…There are “rules of engagement”, so to speak, some are written, some not, but all come with experience on the job…. Take, for example, this sign posted […]
February 14, 2016 at 7:46 am
It may be the greatest western ever made but working in sports journalism can sometimes be just like the 1966 spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly…There are highs, there are lows and there are things about it that are just plain awful….Sure you might get to a Super Bowl, a World Series, […]
February 7, 2016 at 10:00 am
It’s okay to be wrong… It’s okay t0 post something and correct it later… You can always take it down (and that way it’s like it never existed)… Is this really the state of sports journalism in 2016?…It sure seems that way…I thought we had dealt with the issue of being accurate a long time ago […]
January 31, 2016 at 2:27 pm
The truth is, you just never know what you’re going to get when you interview an athlete…Whether it be in the locker room or from the podium, you always need to be on your toes…With all due respect to Dionne Warwick, making eye contact is never dull…. As a journalist, the way you get along […]
It’s up to you now…what kind of journalist will you be? Undoubtedly, at first, the fact that you’re working in the “biz” will be the hook…But where does it go from there? If you’ve been a follower of this blog or a student at the seminar series, I hoped you’ve picked up enough along the […]
April 27, 2015 at 12:14 pm
“You don’t really need us”…Us, according to Kevin Gregg of the Boston Red Sox, happens to be the media relations people associated with any sports team…It says here nothing could be further from the truth…But while twitter and other social media sites have opened access to athletes, the P.R. types are still your best source of contact […]
April 20, 2015 at 12:13 pm
Face it, no one likes to be criticized…especially the people on TV, especially the people on ESPN!…As Ken Fang of Fang’s Bites said at the just recent Boston University sports journalism seminar, “We got ratings, we don’t care (what they say?)”…”We”, of course, is ESPN and for the most part, while they are the acknowledged leader […]
April 13, 2015 at 9:38 am
The best part about teaching, I’ve come to find out, is learning new things myself…And I have my students to thank for that…I never knew what a “digital native” was until last week…Don’t get me started on “foodporn!”…Who coined that one?…My computer doesn’t even recognize it as a word!…But luckily I can still teach a […]
Very late in the just recent Men’s NCAA semi-final basketball game between Kentucky and Wisconsin, play by play announcer Jim Nance uttered what struck me as not only a highly debatable phrase but one that showed a lack of historical perspective….As the Badgers were about to dispatch the Wildcats and ruin the perfect season, Nance […]
