I apologize for the lack of updates recently. I took a week-long trip to the beach with my family as sort of a last-gasp vacation before the sports season started again, and now I'm back in the swing of things.
A couple of things to espect from us at the R&L this fall.
We've tweaked our coverage a little bit as it relates to high school. I'll handle stories from Mooresville, North Iredell and South Iredell while Brian Meadows writes about Lake Norman, Statesville and West Iredell.
The 2007 high school football tab comes out this Friday - hard to believe it's already game time. Each team is profiled, and we'll have a video preview of each team on the Web site as well. I'll make sure to post that link once it becomes available.
We'll have a sports portal that will keep track of all football stats for the six county teams. So now fans and players can compare statistics as the season progresses.
A weekly video show will air on the Web. We don't have it completely ironed out, but the show will include me, Brian and our sports editor Jason Bullard. We'll discuss the happenings in Iredell County sports, and will also make predictions for Friday's football games. This may be your one and only chance to ever see me on video.
I'll blog about more specific national and local topics later this week as well, but here's a very good read from ESPN's ombudsman.
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Showing posts with label ESPN. Show all posts
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Another season with Bonds is one too many
My heart typically races when I load up ESPN's Web site and I see a red box in the top right of the screen with the words "Breaking news."
There's always a half second between reading "Breaking news" and seeing the actual headline, and it seems like my mind churns out at least 10 thoughts as to what the huge news might be.
Early last week, the big breaking news headline was "Barry Bonds hits homer No. 735."
Ugh. It's only one week into the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and I'm already sick of Bonds.
His 735th blast leaves him 21 shy of breaking Hank Aaron's all-time record. So, of course, that set off a wave of columnists making the same arguments on the same angles that have been played out for the last two years.
ESPN, as it did last year, will likely put every Bonds home run in the big "Breaking news" category. In addition, the network again is running its "Countdown to History" graphic with every Giants' score.
This is the same organization that committed a lot of time and money to a fledgling puff-piece reality show about Bonds that failed to ask any legitimate questions to the slugger.
I hope Bonds retires after this season. I'm sick of him, and the circus he creates.
There's always a half second between reading "Breaking news" and seeing the actual headline, and it seems like my mind churns out at least 10 thoughts as to what the huge news might be.
Early last week, the big breaking news headline was "Barry Bonds hits homer No. 735."
Ugh. It's only one week into the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and I'm already sick of Bonds.
His 735th blast leaves him 21 shy of breaking Hank Aaron's all-time record. So, of course, that set off a wave of columnists making the same arguments on the same angles that have been played out for the last two years.
ESPN, as it did last year, will likely put every Bonds home run in the big "Breaking news" category. In addition, the network again is running its "Countdown to History" graphic with every Giants' score.
This is the same organization that committed a lot of time and money to a fledgling puff-piece reality show about Bonds that failed to ask any legitimate questions to the slugger.
I hope Bonds retires after this season. I'm sick of him, and the circus he creates.
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