Greetings, I was in attendance at this event. My goal in attending was to hear and learn more about ethics and intergrity in sports. Although NYU assembeled a star studded group of individuals they didn't come close to discussing the issues of intergrity, morality and ethics that plague sports in todays society. If I… Read more
At my apartment. I had Thanksgiving dinner at a fancy restaurant with fancy and richer friends and raced home for this catastrophe. My cousin came over. The Jets were gonna win this game and make their march toward the playoffs. It was actually a decent game like five minutes earlier. My cousin—a diehard Jets…
It's up in the air who named the Jets' defensive line of Sheldon Richardson, Damon Harrison, and Muhammad Wilkerson…
Excerpted from Undisputed Truth, available now from Blue Rider Press.
Earlier today, the Braves announced that they'll be leaving Turner Field in favor of a new stadium in Cobb County,…
When I was a media buyer, we would get Olympic ADUs (in good events) for NBC prime underdelivery. We would get CBS AFC NFL regional ADUs for CBS DAYTIME underdelivery. We would get Oscars red carpet ADUs for our ABC "early morning" deal when GMA's ratings sucked. Cable networks, ESPN included, give out ADU before… Read more
ADUs (audience deficiency units) are given out on a regular basis by almost every network (unless you are AMC and every show you have blows the estimate out of the water). Pre and post game shows often don't have high estimates anyway. In game programming is another deal. And Super Bowl units are a whole other… Read more
This week we took another look at where each NFL team's production comes from, position by position. The…
Nico Muhly, the young composer behind the very buzzy opera Two Boys, has a bit of an obsession with Manti Te'o. Two…
Adapted from Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), available…
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched…
It's kind of weird - I'm happy to see him go, but I'm also sad to see him go? Maybe because he's been the main announcer my entire baseball existence (~30 years) except for some of the earlier years when it was Joe Garagiola. And he was better than Joe Morgan. He has a great voice and loves the game. It's like, I used… Read more
Ron's done an awesome job with TBS in the playoffs. I think he could do the Fox national broadcasts and still do Mets games. I'm all for it. Read more