MISTER FADED GLORY
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Tag Archives: ESPN
How to build a cheeky sports blog with everyone else’s ideas [Grantland Review]
First, there’s nothing wrong with Grantland. Let’s just get that out of the way. It’s fine. As a landing spot for talented essayists yearning to boost their profile, it’s understandable. As a home for willful expansion of silly twitter asides, … Continue reading
Posted in Irony?, Sports, Sports Media, Writing
Tagged AV Club, blogs, Chuck Klosterman, Content Marketing, Deadspin, Drew Magary, ESPN, Filmdrunk, Grantland, Hipsters, Katie Baker, Kissing Suzy Kolber, Louis CK, Lunchroom Effect, Simmons, Strategy, Videogum, Web sites
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ESPN The Book The Review: Nothing to see here, please disperse.
“I wish them well with it,” [Keith Olbermann] he says, “but it’s a bad sign when someone who worked at the network falls asleep while reading the part about himself.” Once again, Keith Olbermann gets the prescient word – if … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Public Relations, Sports Media, Writing
Tagged ESPN, Jim Miller, Keith Olbermann, Mark Shapiro, Monday Night Football, Tom Shales
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You, too, can be a national columnist for a major sports website!
The Masters just ended, and you now sport your porkpie sportswriter’s hat. That’s right, gang, you’re fully prepared to write a half-baked column about the world’s most prestigious golf tournament. But first, consult your ESPN style manual, and make sure … Continue reading
Posted in Golf, Humor?, Sports Media
Tagged Charl Schwartzel, Cowherd, ESPN, Masters, porkpie hats, Reilly, Simmons, The Machismo Code, Tiger Woods
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NCAA Brackets 2011: The Cranky Sportswriters.
Sure, everyone gnashes teeth when the brackets release on Selection Sunday, openly furious that mediocre schools missed the cut while other mediocre schools earned a bid. This is a calling card of the NCAA Tournament and the Selection Committee. As … Continue reading
Posted in College Basketball, Sports Media
Tagged ESPN, Grumpy Old Men, Mike Wilbon, NCAA Tournament
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The Brackets!
Like most of my colleagues in the business world, the brackets infringe on the middle of March every single year. You’ll permit me a few additional sports breaks this week. In fact, coming up, I’ll provide you my bracket picks, … Continue reading
Posted in College Basketball, Productivity
Tagged Bracketology, Brackets, Colorado, Doug Gottlieb, ESPN, Jason LIsk, Jay Bilas, Ken Pomeroy, Sports Media, Tad Boyle, UAB, VCU
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Remember what I just wrote…
… About LeBron James? I still believe it, I suppose. Sports is a business, mostly, and entertainment, and all of that, and I still believe what I said. Even though LeBron James may be a jerk or an uncaring lummox, … Continue reading
Posted in NBA, Public Relations
Tagged Cleveland Cavaliers, ESPN, Fail, fail, Lebron James, Miami Heat, NBA, The Hollow
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But is it fantastic?
Any time I’m the least bit excited for the NBA, I can’t shake NBC’s old theme music introducing the league’s showcases, playoffs, and Finals. Who else is ready to run through a brick wall?! Ah, the halcyon days of the … Continue reading
Posted in NBA
Tagged Amare Stoudemire, Boston Celtics, David Thompson, Dwight Howard, Early Entries, ESPN, Jason Whitlock, John Wallace, Jordan sycophants, Julius Erving, Karl Malone, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Kobe/Jordan, LA Lakers, Lebron James, Michael Jordan, NBA, NBC, ncaa, Paul Pierce, Tim Duncan, Touring the Years, Tracy McGrady
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Here’s a guy who has totally redeemed himself
Since yesterday’s post detailing Bill Simmons’ egocentric foibles, the Sports Guy’s feud with former ESPN crank Keith Olbermann has escalated. Today, Olbie took Bill further to task, with snide comebacks to each of Simmons’ snarky Friday tweets. I’m not sure … Continue reading
Over ‘Herd’ on ESPN radio…
Normally I refrain from poking fun at ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd because, really, what’s the point? Like hundreds of other sports radio denizens, Cowherd is a master at cherry-picking the most banal of callers, then eviscerating the poor soul on … Continue reading
Posted in Sports Media
Tagged chipmunk voice, Colin Cowherd, Corporatism, ESPN, sanctimonious
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