Posts with tag michael wilbon
Posted Apr 30th 2008 4:40PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Sports, News, TV Royalty, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Anyone catch the live broadcast of Costas NOW last night? I was lucky enough to get a few tickets and went to the live taping in Manhattan with my girlfriend. And I really do mean lucky. Not only did we get seated in the front row, but we were seated right in front of all the panelists. Everyone. Joe Buck, Cris Carter, Mitch Albom, Mike Tirico, Michael Wilbon, John McEnroe... the list goes on. And of course, Bob Costas was only a few feet in front of us on stage. For a sports and TV fanatic, it was very impressive. So why am I writing about it? The town hall format of the show covered a lot of hot topics in sports, but there were a couple segments that really stood out because they directly relate to what we're doing here at TV Squad -- blogging and athletes' (or in our case TV celebs, writers, and producers) reactions to the media.
Continue reading My visit to Costas NOW
Posted Apr 29th 2008 11:42AM by Jay Black
Filed under: Sports, News, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
I've mentioned several times in this space about my love for ESPN's
Pardon the Interruption, but I can always find a reason to say it again: I love this show! I mean, both Kornheiser and Wilbon rank several places higher than most of my family on my Kidney Donation short-list. I don't want to overstate the issue, but spending an afternoon eating pizza and watching
PTI makes me understand how Cartman felt when he
got own his own amusement park.
Soooooooooo happy.
As I was describing (yet again) to my wife how much I love the show, something occurred to me regarding all the other other millions and millions talking-head shows bouncing around my digital cable box: why don't any of them employ a stat boy?
Continue reading Why don't Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olbermann have a Stat Boy?
Posted Apr 26th 2006 8:53PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Sports, Cable, Talent, Industry, Programming, OpEd, TV Sports, Watercooler Talk
I haven't watched ESPN's
Pardon the Interruption in a while; I listen
to Jim Breuer's Sirius show from 4-6 PM and never seem to remember to switch over to
PTI at 5:30. Not to say I
don't like it; in fact, Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser have a chemistry together I haven't seen since Gene Siskel
was still alive and arguing with Roger Ebert.
But when I
do get around to watching the show, I
notice a troubling trend: ESPN has decided to expand the show, delaying the final "Big Finish" segment until
about fifteen minutes into the 6:00
SportsCenter.
What gives? I mean, I know
why they're
doing it;
PTI fans will stick with
SC until that segment airs, thus boosting the highlight show's
ratings. But I still think it's a cheap and manipulative move by ESPN. I no longer watch
SC because the
anchors there are too worried about creating catchphrases than actually describing sports highlights. To have to sit
through 15 minutes of some flunkie going "say 'ello to my little friend!" when someone hits a home run just
to see
PTI finish just stinks. Guess I won't be watching the "Big Finish" anytime soon. Too bad.
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