 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, 21 November 2005 |
Monday
mornings in November: BCS standings, Heisman arguments, NFL playoff
hopes, football bandwagons everywhere. Colts, Bengals, Bears –
and Reggie Bush running over Fresno State like Wile E. Coyote was
chasing him. So why, why, why does SportsCenter lead with Nascar? |
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
Just
this very second, T.O. is sitting in the Philadelphia Marriott – where
SMW once had a run of very nice Manhattans – awaiting the outcome of
his arbitration hearing, and possibly talking with the fans waiting in
line for Harry Potter. Here at SMW, we think it should all end
as quickly as possible, if only so that Sal Palantonio can have a day
off. Sal, if you’re reading: they’re very strong, very dry, and the
maraschino cherries are excellent. Drink up. |
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Thursday, 17 November 2005 |
Leading
with a story about a “sexy rap music controversy at the University of
Miami” is awesome. All I have to say is: “sexy rap music controversy at
the University of Miami,” and possibly “scandalous mp3 available for
download.” See, you’re already hooked. |
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Wednesday, 16 November 2005 |
Thanks
to congress, season awards, and the hot stove league, November might
just be baseball’s busiest media season. Today, thanks to John McCain,
the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Albert Pujols, baseball’s all over the
sports pages, which leaves us asking: do we even need the actual games? |
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Tuesday, 15 November 2005 |
If
you’re tired of talking about the Eagles, T.O., and the Yanks and the
Sox, never fear: there are lots of other good web pages out there that
won’t mention them at all. This one, unfortunately, makes no such
promises. The problem of tracking media obsession is that sometimes the
story just won’t die. And sometimes, just when you think it’s going to
die, Jesse Jackson shows up. And so we press on. |
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