Category: Commentary
The best of the best; ranking all-time top Super Bowl play-by-play voices; From Al Michaels to Ray Scott
25th anniversary of O.J. Simpson working Super Bowl sidelines for NBC. Months later he faced […]
The Halby’s: CBS and NBC – NFL critiques – from Michaels and Nantz to Collinsworth and Romo; 7 Crews
With the 2018 NFL regular season behind us, we ran a column yesterday assessing the […]
The Halby’s: Fox and ESPN, from Buck and Tessitore to Aikman and Witten; 9 NFL crews critiqued
The NFL regular season is over and the month-long playoff run will begin to […]
Red Sox’ radio makes a galling change; Play-by-play will be presented in a talk-show format
Tim Neverett is leaving the Red Sox’ radio booth after three seasons. At first, I […]
Decision on Marv Albert’s future as Turner’s lead NBA voice will likely wait until the season ends
The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reported last week that Turner is seriously considering […]
Columnist: ESPN’s Steve Levy and Brian Griese college football’s best
Early in its infancy, ESPN hired John Walsh, a guy from Scranton, PA, to make […]
Historian Curt Smith examines why the World Series TV ratings have dropped badly since 1988
On September 30, 1989, NBC telecast its last of more than a thousand […]
1968 World Series: Jose Feliciano sings anthem off-key and Tigers Voice Ernie Harwell fears for his job
Fifty years ago, times weren’t really different. The country was as divided then as […]
How did MLB, then dominant on TV, respond to the eruption of the NFL in the 1960s?
It seems like another planet now, but at one point in the early 1960s […]
Curt Smith, baseball broadcast historian: MLB hasn’t yet reclaimed September as Bud Selig vowed
What if you gave a party, the old joke goes, and nobody came? What if […]
Ken Levine: “The highlight was clearly Gladys Knight singing the National Anthem”
By Ken Levine 02/04/2019 1
The NFL has registered trademarks on SUPER BOWL and SUPER SUNDAY so no one is […]