Category: Columnist
Longer games put stress on team voices; Not many do all 162 anymore; It’s exhausting
Baseball is a summer’s game. Fans watch and listen leisurely. It’s not like Harwell, […]
Jason Garrett, a Princeton man, will figure it out on NBC; Anyone remember Bert Kaempfert?
During the first half of 2022, the sports world was devoured by off the […]
Mickelson on wrong side of history; Don’t let the door hit you on way out! CBS should end its silence
Just what you all wanted. Another Phil Mickelson article. It is like those Progressive […]
Historian Curt Smith says changes make HOF’s Ford Frick Award even better; Ballot goes from 8 to10
Perhaps sport’s most prestigious individual radio/TV honor is the Ford C. Frick Award, presented […]
50 years ago, Al Michaels, nervous as they come, did his first World Series, standing near hero Curt Gowdy
Fifty years ago in 1972, a 27 year young Cincinnati Reds’ announcer, Al Michaels, […]
Sports on TV: It seems that winning or losing has become less important than who’s announcing the game
Football Announcers Switching Networks Dominate Coverage Broadcast sports has greatly changed over the years. Networks, […]
Cosell said he told it like it is; But Bob Costas was really the Ed Murrow of his day!
There’s an old adage: Money talks. And recently there has been outsized coverage about […]
Halby’s Morsels: Kevin Burkhardt, Baseball on Fox and ESPN; Greg Olsen unsigned, Still – dots to connect
Mr. Information man, the NY Post’s Andrew Marchand, projects that Kevin Burkhardt is the […]
50 years later, Title IX is kicking in; Marjorie Margolies, who preceded Phyllis George, continues to excel
On Monday, the day after both the Men’s and Women’s Selection Shows were broadcast […]
Top 10 all-time MLB network TV storytellers; If Buck leaves for ESPN, would Fox hire Costas for baseball?
Until TV screens were saturated with stats, replays and excessive commercial time between innings, announcers […]