Networks debut their college football; Noah Eagle gets his NBC primetime shot on Saturday

Quick Observations We’ll get an opportunity to see just a bit of college football this […]


Fighting for the ’60 World Series title in Game#7, Bill Mazeroski’s 9th inning, stunning HR was gripping!

CURT SMITH’S FOUR PART SERIES ON THE GRIPPING 1960 FALL CLASSIC: THIS IS PART TWO […]


The World will watch the 2024 Olympics in Paris; NBC will have to preside over the affair delicately!

Way before the first pitch of baseball’s 2023 all-star game was thrown, the 2024 […]


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 […]


This weekend America will be saturated with pro and college football, an everyday affair

A complicated weekend – A heavy NFL schedule over Thursday,  Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Lots […]


NFL Week # 15: Only 11 games on Sunday, 3 Saturday on NFL Network with bookends tonight and Monday

These folks have earned their praise and pay. Noah Eagle, Ian’s son, just a few […]


A broad weekend for the NFL: Only 11 games total on CBS and Fox; Chicago-Dallas has 85% of U.S.

TV and Radio listings – NFL WEEK # 8 Fox – will have the NFL […]


Cris Collinsworth and son Jac, were the weekend of conversation; dad was hoarse, the other youthful

As we’ve embarked into another season with a country ready and enthralled, these are random […]


They’re off! CBS’ voices familiar; ESPN gets Buck and Aikman; Tirico atop NBC; Michaels launches Prime!

Hungry for the NFL! It’s here! Football starts in scorching heat and ends in frigid […]


Curt Gowdy: Rise and fall of the dominant play-by-player of his day; The ‘Uncle Al Michaels of his time’

Marty Glickman: “Curt Gowdy was one of the most generous men in the business.”   […]


Curt Gowdy: Tutored by Mel Allen, he owned network TV play-by-play, from the 60s through much of the 70s

HISTORIAN CURT SMITH TAKES US THROUGH THE GOLD YEARS OF PLAY-BY-PLAYER CURT GOWDY – PART […]


NBC plans a baseball broadcast with no announcers; How sad! Anecdotes, rhythm and liveliness lost

When I first heard that baseball, under the title of MLB on NBC would air […]