June 10, 2010 – The slow disintegration of the NCAA (“No longer in Charge of American Athletics)began today when Nebraska and Colorado left the Big 12. It begins the long unraveling of the power base where college presidents collected from, over-legislated, and ruled with an iron fist over its member institutions. Money was their main [...]
June 11, 2010 – The dust-up between New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick and ESPN/Yankee mouthpiece Michael Kay was over Mushnick’s protectively veiled claim that Kay’s lifting of newspaper information verbatim and using it as his own was dishonest. It had to do with Mushnick being “critical” of Dave Winfield’s ESPN television analyst skills and [...]
June 9, 2010 – For those of our readers outside New York and Japan who may not know, Michael Kay is a New York Yankee television broadcaster and radio host on NYC’s ESPN outlet during prime afternoon commuter time. He was born and raised in the Bronx, educated at Fordham and served as a sportswriter [...]
May 11, 2008 – Criticisms of broadcasters are a dime a dozen. It’s a tough job, filling up hours of air time, there’s a trick to it, that gift for gab, some preparation and broadcast ability. They are easy targets, getting the viewer’s wrath, as Kay did Monday night, whenever he pronounced “Eddie Bonine” as [...]
May 8, 2010 – For most of his distinguished career, there isn’t much bad you can say about ESPN-ABC-and the Washington Post’s Michael Wilbon. As Tony Kornheiser’s perfectly balanced partner on ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption” (Sportscream’s favorite show), he mostly blends quick intelligence, some humor, racial balance, and foil to Kornheiser’s nebishy and often-failed attempts [...]
