September 9, 2011 at 11:21 am
It wouldn’t be too far off to say it has sports journalists all a-Twitter…that is, some embrace it, like Ian Rapoport of the Boston Herald and Chris Gasper of the Boston Globe while others, mostly veterans, are afraid…Afraid they’d never figure it out, afraid they wouldn’t be very good at it…Well, guess what?…The readers love […]
December 5, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Horace Greeley is widely credited with having said “go west young man, go west”…little did he know that his popular expansionist term would apply to journalism students trying to find their first job….and maybe we’d have too add, “include the numbers 100 through 286 as well”….Because in all practicality, that’s where the soon to be […]
November 20, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Like any good relationship, the way a reporter, or producer for that matter, gets along with the media people of a team or school , has to be worked on and nurtured…They can be your best friend or your worst nightmare…Treat them kindly, figure out how they can help and never, ever use their name […]
October 31, 2010 at 11:20 am
“Down goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier! down goes Frazier!”…”Do you believe in miracles?”….”I can’t believe what i just saw!”.. Everyone has their own favorite…that one call that capped off a championship, won a world series, brought home a title….But usually that’s just the final seconds of a game and it’s the job […]
October 24, 2010 at 3:06 pm
In most cities, you didn’t have a choice…one sports talk radio station was it…But here in Boston, thanks to some good hires, there’s competition…and the listeners are the benefactors… Granted, much of it is local and that, in and of itself, narrows the scope of what’s covered, but two important things have happened to the […]
October 18, 2010 at 10:34 am
The locker room is an office, not yours, but theirs…and in many ways, it’s their home as well…When reporters cram into that space, and remember, stay behind the line!, they need to remember there are rules….While it may not be high on the priority list, being interviewed is part of an athlete’s job description…Whether it’s […]
October 13, 2010 at 9:24 am
I just read where the NFL Network is running a list of the 100 greatest players ever…The final ten won’t be released until early November so i thought i’d let you know there should be no discussion here, absolutely none…argue willie mays, babe ruth, hank aaron in basbeall…bill russell, wilt chamberlain, michael jordan, larry, magic […]
October 10, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Patriots founder Billy Sullivan wouldn’t have it…Red Auerbach ordered bathrobes for his players…Red Sox players have been romantically linked…At different times and in different places, women sports reporters have had to work very hard to be accepted…With more and more women going into the field, the landscape and the mindset have changed…But if there’s one […]
October 3, 2010 at 12:10 pm
It may be unthinkable…But one of these days, as they’ve done in Albany, New York and Tampa, Florida, for example, you’re going to read that one of the local Boston stations has cut sports from its local newscast…There will be the attendant vocalizing, “how can they do that?…Don’t they know what a big sports town […]
September 25, 2010 at 2:42 pm
The boss bellows, “I need someone to cover the (insert game here), who wants to do it?.” What’s the first thing that goes through your mind?…You probably could come up with a lot of answers but the most important ought to be telling the story better than everyone else… It might be easier for you […]
