Category: Columnist
Monte Moore, 91, survived Charlie Finley and the unsteady voices the A’s owner hired and fired
Monte Moore survived. The rest didn’t. In, one day, out the next. The mic men […]
Handling a challenging PR development: From ordeals to opportunities to controversies
A Novel PR Tutorial: Lessons From Sports On Television Even though they were not […]
Halby’s Morsels: Use of language and terms on-air, then and now; St. John’s basketball’s golden days
Language on-air Marty Glickman and I were heading up to Hartford from Manhattan […]
Sportswriter, pioneer and network veteran Lesley Visser talks about diving into the podcast pool
In 2019, at the Super Bowl in Atlanta, I ran into Scott Greenstein, President […]
NFL media members pounce on Aaron Rodgers for lacking transparency about being vaccinated
Ever since his misleading comments about being immunized against Covid-19, Aaron Rodgers has arguably […]
Remembering the late A’s voice Ray Fosse; Reports say John Sterling, 83, will be asked back for 2022
Ray Fosse, a baseball fixture for over fifty years, passed away last week, […]
Politicians talk but there’s no strong drive to exit the Beijing Games or for NBC to limit its coverage
Another Olympics controversy; Many political leaders are critical of NBCUniversal for televising the Beijing […]
Two play-by-players are linked by a deadly ’89 plane crash; one survived, other lost his parents
Play-by-play voices connected by happenstance It’s been 32 years since the deadly crash of […]
2022 Beijing Games: Will NBC speak the truth about China or camouflage the country’s warts?
More at stake than gold medals for NBCUniversal at the Beijing Olympics: Truth in […]