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Entries in Basketball (10)
It's Not Easy Being Green (OR: Bob Costas, You Can't Handle the Truth!)
MAJORBLOGS.NET - 04.28.08 - I always love the casual put-down that print journalists like to drop on those of us who are digital magazine publishers.
Print Guy: "So, you have a magazine that's been around nearly ten years covering minor league sports?"
ME: "That's right SZ was the very first digital sports magazine in the world. Cover and sections and everything, going back to 2000."
Print Guy: "Oh, so you're just a website."
That is the unjust 'just' to which I usually smile and politely reply:
Brian Ross
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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - The famous explorer Sir Henry M. Stanley, who went in search of the lost British explorer Dr. Livingstone must have felt a bit like I've been feeling the last few years. You have to beat the bushes pretty hard to find not only a whole world of sports that has, to date, been underground, local, and nearly invisible to the national media. Minor league baseball is...
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Must-See NBA-TV A Bit Fuzzy on NBA Development League Draft
MAJORBLOGS.NET - The National Basketball Association Development League 2007 Draft, or the NBA Development League Draft, or the NBA D-League Draft or the D-League Draft, or the hey-isn't-that-the-NBDL-still draft or the NBA-has-a-minor-league? Draft, depending upon who you catch, was a success, albeit a bit fuzzy one. Huge points to NBA-TV for broadcasting the D-League Draft and trying to stage it with the same look and feel of other top-quality NBA-TV productions. Unfortunately, it looked like...
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The CBA "If" Draft of 2007
The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) concluded the “If” draft two weeks ago. “If” the player selected isn’t going to the NBA’s Development League (D-League) or taking part in their November annual draft, and “if” they will forego bigger money to play for Norway or Greece or Turkey and “if” they will come away without competing offers from the ABA, IBL, or another hoops-hand-hungry league, then they’ll make a swell CBA pick. This was largely the repeated riffs of commentary from the CBA scouts in the live draft show from the Holiday Inn Parkway East in Pittsburgh, PA., nerve center of the 2007 CBA draft. The webcast, which was marred by frequent audio problems, had a little of the magic of its grander NBA cousin with a heapin’ helpin of garage-style YouTube video production. Maybe they should have got the ‘Leave Britney Alone’ guy to shoot it. It stayed on time. A few media wags some teams having draft parties, and a smattering of fans tuned in. Players were the obvious intended audience, particularly with what became the running advertisement for the CBA...
Reviving the Classic Sports Illustration
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - The minor league games have MAJOR sports fans, so, along with your passion for the purer form of the sport, we brought back something equally cool and old-school. Most of us are too young to remember the sports illustrations that used to appear in newspapers across America. Ever wonder why they call it "Sports Illustrated" and not sports photographed? Illustrations became a vanishing art form by the...
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Boston Herald Columnist Steve Buckley is Full of Bulls
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - On Monday Steve Buckley, "general" sports columnist at the Boston Herald, rattled out "At heart of Duke-ness," one of those homer tomes on Beantown college basketball that die-hahd Boston fans eat up, but which land like Lunesta on anyone outside of the hallowed ground of the Massachusetts sports mecca. In the process of trashing Duke basketball, a time-honored ritual of the sports writers around college programs jealous of the Coach K machine, he decided to nuke Durham Bulls baseball, Toledo Mud Hens baseball and Minor League Baseball in the process. "In the end, though, that’s all there is to Durham, N.C. When there is no college basketball being played, it is just another minor league tank town. The Durham Bulls. Oh. Lovely," drops Buckley into his March madness beantown bombast. He then winds up with: "And I’d rather be watching Red Sox-Yankees on a steamy August night than Bulls-Mud Hens." Now, admittedly, that qualifies as pretty progressive thinking from a sports writer in...
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Alex in Wonderland - Alexander Wolff Wanders the Basketball Road Less Traveled
Updated on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 09:31AM by
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Alexander Wolff took a fall, He stepped off the cliff of ABA basketball, Now he'll need some giant sieves, To find a handful of Vermont Frost Heaves. Sitting on the sidelines, reporting the goings-on of professional sports, you think to yourself: 'Hey, I could run a team better than [Insert Billionaire Moron Owner or Corporate Entity Here].
The Elephant on the Court
When is a league no longer a league? When the bigger league sucks up three of its core clubs and an expansion team. That's the situation that the venerable Continental Basketball Association finds itself in as the Dakota Wizards, Idaho Stampede, Sioux Falls Skyforce, and expansion Colorado 14ers all bolted the 60 year old CBA for the greener pastures of the NBA D-League. If you can afford the dues, who wouldn't want to join that club? The D-League may still see...
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What the ABA Wants to Be When It Grows Up
Updated on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 08:14AM by
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OPINION - Joe Newman goes by many names. Founder of the modern American Basketball Association, the P.T. Barnum-like sports imprimatur has been called a genius, a visionary, an opportunist, a scoundrel, and grandpa. I've covered the league on and off since it was the ABA-2000, and I've interviewed Joe a dozen times for this and that. Still, beyond the grandpa part, I can never really put my finger on...
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When the Message Owns the Media
The internet was a big boon to minor and independent sports leagues and teams. Everyone from ESPN to the local fishwrap used to ignore them, favoring college sports and the majors. What better way to get the word out than via the Internet, where anyone interested could tune in? Major League Baseball kicked off the trend of building your own internal news organization to create a...
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