 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, 10 October 2005 |
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See if this sounds familiar: staid British runner attends
prestigious British University in wartime, dabbles in track while
pursuing real studies, is alternately encouraged and downplayed by
peers and administrators, taken under the wing by
crochety-yet-brilliant, emotionally-stunted coach, and finally
pressured to run “for country” while the audience learns the great joy
of running just for the love of it.
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Written by Matt Gaventa
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Thursday, 06 October 2005 |
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Peter
King has predicted the final score of every NFL game this upcoming weekend.
Amazingly, according to King, Indianapolis will defeat San Francisco by the
unlikely score of 31-8.
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Written by Matt Gaventa
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Tuesday, 04 October 2005 |
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SMW officially apologizes for opening with the Sox and Yanks, but here we
go: at the Gray Lady, Richard
Sandomir is upset about Wednesday’s 10 p.m. Eastern start for the Yankees/Angels
Game 2. “Is the late start - the latest of any game in either L.D.S. - any
way to thank the Yankees for drawing 4 million fans or for having a
$200-million-plus payroll?"
Short answer: yes. And there's also a long answer...
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Monday, 03 October 2005 |
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The baseball postseason is upon us, we are storming into the heart
of the NFL season, basketball and hockey are knocking at the door,
NASCAR’s down to the wire, and boxing may have just ended.
Nevertheless, on this frenzy of a sports media Monday, we need to talk
about NFL Blitz.
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Written by Matt Gaventa
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Thursday, 29 September 2005 |
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Oh, how the not-quite-so-mighty have fallen. In case you read the
magazine and didn’t notice – entirely too possible – this week is Sports
Illustrated’s NHL Preview Issue. Obligatory jokes aside, the twenty-page section
is actually shorter than last week’s “Special Advertising Section” on football
tailgating, and lacks any of the quality SMW has come to expect from SI season
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