 Every
day, a lot of sportswriters, talking heads, and sports media
“professionals” say a lot of stuff. Mostly, it’s crap. As if the
seventy-second column on your team’s free agency prospects is really
going to tell you something new. What you need is a quick-fix look at
the day’s sports media, and you need it annotated, opinionated, and
funny as hell. Your TPS reports have suffered long enough.
That’s what the Daily Digest is here for. Matt Gaventa provides
your one-stop destination for the day-to-day ramblings of the sports
media universe. What are we obsessing with? What’s getting left behind?
What small country did ESPN buy today? This is the news you need about
the media you use, Monday through Friday and always on guard.
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Monday, 20 March 2006 |
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Monday morning. We all had a chance to sleep it off; now, let’s get a bit more in-depth with CBS’s on-demand streaming video coverage of the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament. According to CBS’s press release, over one million of you tuned in online at some point during the past four days, almost certainly doing nasty things to the bandwidth at your office and possibly annoying your IT department without your knowledge. Nonetheless, you made some people very happy: CBS, the NCAA, the IT department at CSTV, and, of all people, Bud Selig. Yes, Mr. NCAA-Tournament-Streaming-Video-Watcher, you made the Commish very happy indeed. |
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Thursday, 16 March 2006 |
ESPN has been calling today one of the two best days in the sports calendar. Presumably the Super Bowl is #1, though we’d like to imagine it’s something a bit more offbeat like [insert your own joke here]. Regardless: it’s the opening day of the NCAA Tournament, the march to the Final Four. And in honor of that ultimate final foursome, here are SMW’s Final Four Media Matchups (opening round edition): |
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
He was right: the media doesn't like him. In a forthcoming offering from Gotham Books (a subsidiary of Penguin), excerpted in yesterday’s Sports Illustrated (a subsidiary of Time Warner), two reporters for the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle provide smoking-gun-esque detail of Barry Bonds’ steroid use. That's right, in an inspirational, hands-across-America moment of cross-corporate-cooperation, we all take timeout to proclaim in unified voice: “Barry Bonds: Asshole.” |
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
Paul Tagliabue and Gene Upshaw, you are officially on the clock. As the hours tick away (the sides have until midnight tonight to ratify a new Collective Bargaining Agreement before the NFL heads into an economic Undiscovered Country), we have to welcome a new player to the table: ESPN. And here at the end of days, ESPN is hardly the innocent bystander they pretend to be. |
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
This is not just another story about how NBC’s Olympics coverage has been flawed and rejected. Instead, let's take a step back -- let's question all of the assumptions on the table, and imagine what it would mean for future NBC coverage to be really successful. On the morning after, everything's fair game: time zones, media channels, and even the godlike inscrutability of Nielsen itself.
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