 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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Thursday, 05 January 2006 |
Briefly and quickly, in our post-Rose Bowl haze, a few Digest-sized thoughts on last night's broadcast (and some sympathy for our Communist friends to the south): |
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Wednesday, 04 January 2006 |
The Digest is back. And boy, do the stories pile up. So for a few days here, we’re going to be working through some of the more curious media news items from the past several weeks, starting today with a hugely important question: what’s the biggest source of media revenue for Major League Baseball? Who owns it? And, most important, why have you never heard of it? |
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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
Sports Media Watch and The Digest will return in full force
next Monday. But meanwhile, while we get over our Boxing Day hangover, we just
wanted to remind you of why we’re here in the first place. It’s not just for
the banner ads – it’s because, as far as we know, it is mathematically
impossible to score -3 points in a professional football game. And the
screenshot follows. |
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
Ah, the sex cruise. Here’s the thing with a sex cruise: there are two ways to talk about it. One involves laughing your ass off. Which, we have to admit, seems appropriate. The other is to treat it with the kind of detached apathy usually reserved for British Royal functions, as we saw last night on SportsCenter. Far be it from SMW to accuse ESPN of undersensationalizing a story, but in this particular case, Bristol dropped the ball entirely. |
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
Here at the Digest, we spent a lot of time talking about the relationship between news coverage and broadcast rights. But today, we have to navigate a major sports event with major sports coverage and absolutely no broadcast contract: the World Baseball Classic. And if you like what you hear, get in the game, because rights are still for sale – the next best thing in international sporting competition could land on your cable channel, so make an offer. |
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