November 10, 2012 at 3:05 pm
It’s easy to be star struck sometimes as a journalist, no matter what the grizzled veterans of the Fourth Estate say…The first time you’re in an interview situation with the likes of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, it’s real…I know I was…I hoped i didn’t embarrass myself or worse, draw the dreaded glare!…So when […]
November 4, 2012 at 4:35 pm
When twenty five students in a sports journalism class were asked recently whether or not they watched sports coverage on their local news channel, the response was unanimous, not one hand shot skyward…And you know what, it’s not surprising… It’s not because they come from out of state…It’s not because they don’t follow the “local” […]
October 28, 2012 at 7:50 am
It usually starts with some inanimate object…maybe a hair brush, maybe even a wooden kitchen spoon…But invariably, if you ask play by play announcers how they got their start, they will tell you they were the ones running around the living room announcing games for their parents at a very early age…Hey, let’s be honest…who […]
October 21, 2012 at 9:46 am
It should be as simple as just changing the channel or, heaven forbid, turning off the program, but we have come to depend on sports media critics, as much for advance warning , as solid post game analysis as well…I suppose we all like to have our opinions validated and can’t wait for a “review” […]
October 14, 2012 at 9:07 am
If sports talk radio listeners paid heed to the 1958 song by the Coasters, it might have never mushroomed into what it is today….A place to go while you’re in your car, a haven for long suffering fans, even somewhere to catch up on a missed interview on your radio DVR (is there even such […]
October 7, 2012 at 8:38 am
How timely was it that the Boston Red Sox fired Bobby Valentine on the very same day the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series focused on Media Relations?….In case you missed it, the Sox decided to hold “group” interviews with their media outlets rather than a full blown news conference to announce the firing….NESN, MLB.com […]
September 30, 2012 at 10:37 am
The 1968 slogan for a popular cigarette might very well be relevant now but if you were lucky enough to be on hand for our Women in Sports seminar at Boston University you might just wonder…Digit Murphy, the long time head women’s ice hockey coach at Brown University was quick to point out that despite […]
September 23, 2012 at 8:40 am
Fancy hotels, daily access to the locker room, a press pass to all the games…What could be bad?…. Beat reporting is sometimes all of those but more often than not it’s a twenty four a day job and can be daunting at times…Depending on the beat you are lucky enough to secure and in what […]
September 16, 2012 at 10:25 am
It comes in all shapes and sizes but sports information on the internet knows no boundaries…home grown websites, twitter, wildly commercial pop up laden pages likes ESPN.com and Sports.yahoo.com, even Facebook put sports news forward all day….But one thing they don’t do is differentiate between journalism and entertainment…that’s left up to you… I’m not sure […]
September 6, 2012 at 10:57 am
Junior Walker would be proud….Yeah, I know I’m dating myself but what else is new?….1961 was the date, “Shotgun” was the hit, the first of many….Who knew that more than fifty years later, ‘ shotgun’ would become a term used to describe a form of sports journalism …it’s not covering a story, it’s not reporting what […]
