August 20, 2010 – Michael Kay does the flagship ESPN radio show in New York, but he’s more famous for his work on YES, as the Yankees play-by-play man. Kay makes no bones about being Bronx-reared and therefore, Yankee cheered. Trouble is, every time you want to compliment him for doing a professional job, he [...]
June 15, 2010 – After five network-aired episodes of its fourth season, Friday Night Lights, the critically-acclaimed, viewer-challenged drama about Texas high school and football may have jumped the steer. Lauded by critics for its realistic portrayal of Middle America and deep personal exploration of its central characters, the pile of writers/co-executive and executive producers [...]
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 [...]
May 4, 2010 – We gave HBO’s “The Pacific” eight weeks, so to give “Treme” about half that time to decide that it sucks, will get us some of our life back. If watching Speilberg and Hanks play Army as grownups, is for you, than have at it. But “The Pacific” is not about fighting [...]
