Headlines for January, 2004

Unfair Media

As a member of the media, I get angry when someone makes an inappropriate analogy in an important story. Such a thing happened in last Sunday's New York Times. There was an article on the second page of the front section reporting on the plight of people in Costa Rico making baseballs. In a Rawlings factory in the Central American country, [read more...]

Super Bowl Sunday…National Holiday?

I have a beef with President's Day. Columbus Day, too. Seriously, for people who are fortunate enough to be given a day off work, what do they actually do to salute these occasions? What holiday customs have come from these obscure three-day weekends in February and October respectively? Christmas Day is fairly self-explanatory. So is New Year's Day. Memorial Day and [read more...]

Hart Surgery: The Politics of Football

There are two giant events taking place this week, the Super Bowl and the New Hampshire Primary. In terms of media coverage, the two events strike me as exceedingly similar. Both consist of media types scrambling desperately to spin straw into gold, hoping something remotely abnormal will happen to report on but usually coming up empty. Generally, both usually fail to provide much in [read more...]

To Be (Or Not To Be) On SC

It's funny how things change. Ever since I was little, I knew I wanted a future in sports on television. From the time I was old enough to stay up late, I would turn to the 10 o'clock (Central) Sportscenter to watch Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and their nightly quest to both entertain and educate about the day in [read more...]

CSR View: Fire Drops the Ball

When the Chicago Fire made the announcement that the Village of Bridgeview will be the site for their $70 million stadium-scheduled to be up by the spring of 2006-all involved talked about the passion and location of Bridgeview being the deciding factors. Now, there is no need to question the passion claim; after all, what else can a town of 17,000 [read more...]

English Eye for the American Guy

As an Englishman living in America, I have no idea how the BCS standings work, but then again, perhaps no one really know how the rating system works. The college football season lasted for four and a half months and then at the end of it; there were two winners. This doesn't make much sense to me. Wouldn't it make [read more...]

CSR View: One Long Week

There were no doubt millions of people who, at around 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, wondered what to do. Instead of seeing Cats and Pats in the world's most anticipated sporting event, the nation, and the world, was forced to wait a whole extra week for the Super Bowl. The two-week delay between the conference title games and Super [read more...]

What I remember…A Houston Stadium Tour

I recently had the opportunity to see my first Rockets game at the brand new Toyota Center in downtown Houston. I really enjoyed finally getting the chance to see the inside of the building after walking by it every day for past few months. Since I go to school nearby, I decided to get a parking contract in the Toyota Center [read more...]

Extreme Makeover

More active than Dick Vermeil's tear ducts, America's fascination with freakish turnarounds is unquenchable.Two years ago, at 1-15, and unlovably the losers of 15 straight, Carolina wasn't the league doormat. They were more akin to a Ben Hur leper colony back-door mat -trampled on regularly by even the league's low-life's. In just two years, this remarkable makeover in both content and [read more...]

Boras Bull Market Has Gone Bare

Currently, both Greg Maddux and Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez can't imagine securing major "Boras" money with a contending team.Sure Pudge, take Tiger bucks. That's like a guy letting the chick with the mustache buy him drinks. See Pudge, 40 million over 4 years is good…but like a Siberian outcast, you better just hope the party-inducing vodka pipeline doesn't run out, because the [read more...]

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