Author: David J. Halberstam
Halby’s Morsels: Grading yesterday’s talent, Voices of the AFC and NFC Title Games: Romo’s malaprops
Terry Bradshaw contributed little to the quality or material of the pre and post game […]
If we use the Curt Gowdy Theory, Sunday is the best bargain in sports, CBS and Fox could have dandies!
Curt Gowdy did the national semi-finals for NBC in the 1960s, covering the great […]
Broadcast Details: Two Conference Finals: San Fran @ Philly and Cincy @ KC; Frigid in KC, Moderate in PHL
2023 NFL Championship Sunday TV & National Radio Schedule Sunday, January 29 N F […]
Halby’s Morsels: Pat Riley: A perfect life; Bill Schonely: Gave Portland an insignia; Brown out with Knicks
Pat Riley Pat Riley tells his story. Asked who’s his best player ever, he says […]
The games were fair at best; Stories do well; A little animation would be better; Who stood out?
Sunday wasn’t Saturday. The first game Sunday was duller than whale poop! First, surprisingly […]
Yesterday’s broadcast reviews turning to two dandies today: CBS’ Cincy-Bills and Fox’ SF-Dallas
REVIEW OF YESTERDAY’S TWO TELECASTS Jacksonville at Kansas City – NBC – Mike Tirico […]
Heading into Saturday’s and Sunday’s doubleheaders, the NFC and AFC title games lurk next weekend
2023 NFL Divisional Weekend TV & National Radio Schedule below Notes first: Game one Saturday […]
Curt Smith: “Vin Scully instantly hauls a story from the shelf” and “to navigate a sea of dead air”
In the last of this series, our interaction with the man who wrote the tome, […]
Shots at Al Michaels are ridiculous! Hearing him again on NBC was sweet! Dungy was to the point
Together, these two men, worked fluently. Al Michaels and Tony Dungy let the game […]
Three NFL playoff games resume today after Jacksonville’s implausible comeback win over Chargers!
Saturday, January 14, 2022 Seattle-San Francisco 4:30 PM San Francisco won FOX: Joe Davis, […]
Curt Smith focuses on the 50s through the 70s; from characters like Bob Uecker through Bob Prince
We continue our discussion about baseball broadcasting with historian, Curt Smith, picking it up […]
After pioneering decades covering college hoops; Billy Packer is missed; a father of TV hoops; He’s missed
By David J. Halberstam 01/31/2023 0
On Friday, I got this unsolicited note from a man who had quite an impact […]