According to the TV ratings, I must be one of the few people actually watching the Olympics. But watching them I have been - a good deal of the network coverage, in fact. A couple of disjointed thoughts:
Credit goes to NBC for apparently listening to critics from Olympics past and focusing more on the […]
I know: sports are a foreign language to me, and I particularly don’t comprehend sports journalism. But Mark Jurkowitz, in responding to irate local sports bloggers calling for the head of Globe writer Ron Borges, brings up an interesting point only to stop halfway there.
In some ways, this episode is being framed as a […]
I always enjoy the Guardian’s tennis coverage. If American sports media had remotely as clever and humorous an approach to their coverage, I’d probably read them, even not being a sports fan. It’s something about the sardonic relationship to both athlete and fan-correspondents. And it helps that the readers writing in are funny, too. Sample […]