Entries in Sports Journalism (4)
Look Who's Talking (WOW!) - AFL "Open Mike Night" Raw
MAJORBLOGS.NET - OPINION - Be careful of what you wish for.
Most sports fans find that there is something about the silent show on the sidelines that fascinates us. What are they saying to motivate the players? My coach is ripping the official a new one?!
'Boy, I would have loved to have heard that...'
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:
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...
Austin Statesman Engages in Unstatesmanlike Behavior With the Austin Ice Bats
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - If you look at my previous blog on the Austin Ice Bats situation, you will know that a key component to their being abandoned by the community that they have served for twelve years has been the decision by the local media outlets, most notably the town's biggest newspaper, the Austin Statesman, to abandon the club in its hour of need. Our friends at the Statesman are gambling that the Ice Bats have gone Sixth Sense, and are...







