Archive for August, 2008
Misleading MLB revenue and attendance?
What is going on in Major League Baseball? The Yankees are about to miss the playoffs, there is talk that the Cubs have a chance at the World Series…and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are going to make the playoffs. Yes, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are in the middle of a playoff chase. The [...]
NBC’s Olympic coverage…or lack thereof.
How can you have 1 million hours of Olympic coverage, and still manage to piss people off? NBC shows us how. As some of you may have heard, there is this thing called the 2008 Olympics going on over in Beijing right now. As some of you may have also heard, there is this Jamaican [...]
The Cultural Significance of Michael Phelps
Lets get one thing straight…Michael Phelps is unstoppable. And, as it stands right now, he’s on top of the world, he is clearly the biggest story of the 2008 Olympics (even with Usain Bolt breaking world records with his shoe untied and his arms outstretched). But will Phelps’ dominance translate into endorsement dollars and have [...]
Favre to Jets: 10 Reasons why it is the single biggest NFL trade in the last 19 years
First off, let me say…thank goodness this is over. I had been boycotting sportscenter because they were doing nothing more than beating the Favre story into the ground (think Pedro Gomez covering Barry Bonds during the HR chase). So…Brett Favre to the Jets. A reminder of the terms, from ESPN, …if Favre takes 50 percent [...]
Sports Journalism’s double standard blamed on Bloggers
You know, I hear that Hitler had a blog too… Honestly, what did the sports world blame all of its ills on before blogging became so popular? Bloggers, now that they’ve ruined the way the world looks at athletes, have decided to set their sights on a lower income bracket, namely, sports journalists. The whole [...]
Jim Brown doesn’t want anyone to play Madden ’09…
…and he probably thinks you’re a pansy too. 2008. The unorthodox year of the Madden curse. First, there’s a retired/wants to play/willing to take $20 million to retire/wants to play for the Vikings, or Green Bay, if he’s the starter/Aaron Rodgers Player Hater, Brett Favre on the cover. And now? Well, Jim Brown has decided [...]
