College Hockey: Hockey East Coaches Make The Media Rounds, My Love Of Kevin...
Last week may have kicked off regular season play for many college teams, but it was only this week that coaches really started making the media rounds in New England. Jerry York, head coach of Boston...
View ArticleWhy Are Grantland and Deadspin Obsessed With The Men’s Magazine Model? (Or,...
In late September, I put the higher ed administrator hat away for a hot second and geeked out at Blogs With Balls, the seminal national conference on new sports media. BWB4 appropriately featured...
View ArticleThe Curse of the Pessimistic Bills Fan Strikes Social Media
On Christmas Eve morning, the Buffalo Bills’ official Facebook page and Twitter account asked Bills fans: “What will Santa deliver for the Bills today?” The Bills were playing the Tim Tebow led Denver...
View Article90s Girl Problems: Why Verne Lundquist’s Voice Always Takes Me Back To 1992
Veteran sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist is calling NCAA Tournament basketball games for CBS this weekend. I don’t know about you, but even fourteen years after CBS broadcast its last Winter...
View ArticleThe Grand Boston Red Sox PA Auditions List
Updated July 6, 2012 On the morning of Wednesday, May 30th, Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino announced on WEEI that the team would hold auditions to replace legendary PA announcer Carl Beane....
View ArticleTim Thomas: The Negativity Of Success And Plotting The Escape
Tim Thomas announced Sunday that he would take the 2012-13 NHL season off. On his Facebook page (Thomas’s equivalent of Martin Luther’s doors to the church,) the 38 year old cited three F’s for being...
View ArticleWhen Listening To Home Is As Easy As Opening A Browser Tab, Why Is Sports...
A Tune In Radio app screen capture full of post-related goodness. When Buffalo Bills training camp began in July, Buffalo, NY sports radio station WGR upped their camp coverage. They added the John...
View ArticleJust Stipple It
For some of us, writing and doodling are just easier. The Dean (my boss at my full-time job) and I are very alike in that way. I’ve tried styluses on iPhones, and using an iPad to take notes in...
View ArticleThe Three Part Guide For Getting My Pro Sports Mojo Back
Over the past few months, I struck out and applied for full-time jobs in sports journalism for the first time. I thought almost three years of writing for quality publications while juggling an...
View ArticleThe Value of Conversations: Thoughts on Grantland’s Look at Sports Radio
“The readout from our sports-radio diagnostic noted the following: Hosts don’t necessarily maintain the air of swamis. Callers have been downsized or have fled. News updates are anachronistic. Why do...
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