Category: Halby’s Morsels
Halby’s Morsels: A cynical view of Roone Arledge; ESPN’s NBA talent; More 70+ Voices; NFL TV rights
NBA on ESPN ESPN ran five games on Christmas Day. The quintuple-header turned into an […]
Halby’s Morsels: ESPN’s best college football play-by-players; Sports TV’s future; NHL’s Hewitt Award
The thick of the season is behind us. The conference championships, Army-Navy and […]
Halby’s Morsels: NBA announcer changes; League has 14 voices 70 or over, Curt Gowdy and PC in 1975
Jim Barnett, an eleven year NBA journeyman, did color on Golden State Warriors telecasts […]
Halby’s Morsels: Buck energized, Brian Anderson shines, Joe Davis lacked flair; Fox’ MLB studio is good
Halby’s post-season mouthfuls Joe Buck has been a prominent network voice for a long […]
Halby’s Morsels: Baseball voices now vs. past; NHL talent changes; ESPN plans 3000 college hoops telecasts
My mother, God bless her, she’s 95, always told me that if I have nothing […]
Halby’s Morsels: It’s all in the family with names like Albert, Caray, Kelly, Kuiper and Lazarus; Mike Tirico +
First, a programming note. Columnist Dan Mason had a lengthy interview yesterday with the most […]
Halby’s Morsels: 49ers smartly hire Greg Papa; Hedrick only voice alive from first SB; Stories from the booth
A delight hearing Greg Papa on 49ers broadcasts. Strong and gutsy decision by 49ers […]
Halby’s Morsels: Vin Scully, Voice of Voices, reminisces; Boog Sciambi’s growth; In-fighting by Harwell’s kids
The longtime KNX and KFWB Southern California sports reporter Ted Sobel hosted a gem of a podcast […]
Halby’s Morsels: One play-by-play voice doing all 9 innings on radio is too much! It’s a long season
Think of the local television baseball names around the country. Few of them alternate […]
Halby’s Morsels: Older announcers can’t fight the clock; Few can withstand the winds of time
Amazon voices Storm and Kremer were very well prepared but lacked experience to caption the […]