 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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Wednesday, 26 October 2005 |
If a baseball game ends at 2:30 in the morning, and nobody is awake
to see it, did it really happen? Well, that all depends on which
newspaper you ask.
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 |
With football and baseball swirling, it’s easy to see how the media could have overlooked Saturday’s goalpost tragedy
at the University of Minnesota-Morris. Monday afternoon, an autopsy
confirmed that a falling goalpost in the celebration of UMM’s overtime
victory was responsible for the death of student Richard Thomas Rose.
But in the two days since the event was first reported, ESPN and its
sports media brethren have kept as far away as possible; admittedly,
UMM football keeps a low profile, but that begs the question even
further: why aren’t we talking about this?
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Monday, 24 October 2005 |
Despite ESPN’s burgeoning fleet of television stations, they always find ways to fill the air they create. But more and more, SMW has noticed Bristol using cheap devices to fill time, or artificially to create news items that their talking heads can then prolong indefinitely.
Example #1: yesterday’s “special” 90-minute NFL Primetime, extended only because of the absence of Sunday Night Football, which found its extra thirty minutes by using feature segments stolen right from SportsCenter.
Example #2: SportsCenter’s “must-see” footage of Keyshawn Johnson and Mike Irvin head-to-head, stolen right from NFL Countdown.
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Friday, 21 October 2005 |
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Do you remember, not that long ago, some suspect sportswriters talking about an “Angels curse”?
It seems the Red Sox curse sold well, and in 2005 we can’t wait to find the
next unlucky franchise. The woe-is-us refrain is back. Sports media is falling
over itself to cast Houston and the ChiSox as the most downtrodden teams – nay,
perhaps, the most cast-upon heroes since Job himself – ever to grace our cultural
stage. So be careful, ye who enter upon this Series: make sure to lose,
otherwise we just won’t like you anymore.
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Thursday, 20 October 2005 |
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A. Reality television. But before we get to that… The most important story in sports media this week, especially because we haven’t been talking about it enough, is the impact of last weekend’s disqualification of Michelle Wie from her first professional event, the Samsung World Championship. Now you’re screaming, “Not talking about it enough? That’s the most coverage of women’s golf since that time Mary-Kate and Ashley went to putt-putt!” So maybe it’s not that the conversation isn’t happening, but that we’re having the wrong conversation; instead of talking about Michelle Wie, we need to talk about Michael Bamberger.
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