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SNY's Cohen gets to call Mets game from upper deck
May 15, 2008
"It's a dump, but it's our dump," Gary Cohen said.
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New film on ESPN shows Zen of Bobby Valentine
May 13, 2008
'Oh, to be a kid again," a wistful Bobby Valentine says in "The Zen of Bobby V," a documentary that premieres on ESPN2 tonight.
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Girardi's start with media has growing pains
May 9, 2008
Joe Girardi took his place in the media hot seat when it still was warm from the soothing glow of Bigelow Joe.
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Girardi's start with media has growing pains
May 8, 2008
Joe Girardi took his place in the media hot seat when it still was warm from the soothing glow of Bigelow Joe.
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Sports Museum in Manhattan covers all the bases
May 6, 2008
Philip Schwalb doesn't start media tours of the Sports Museum of America at the museum itself, housed in John D. Rockefeller's former headquarters on lower Broadway.
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Dodgers announcer Scully remains a treasure
May 4, 2008
It seems beside the point to quote Vin Scully in a newspaper article.
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Dodgers announcer Scully remains a treasure
May 3, 2008
It seems beside the point to quote Vin Scully in a newspaper article.
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MLB.com video looking clearer than ever
May 2, 2008
HBO's extraordinary live town meeting on the state of sports media Tuesday night has been a source of much talk on sports talk radio and much buzz in the sports blogosphere.
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Will modern media ever learn to not jump the gun?
May 1, 2008
HBO's extraordinary live town meeting on the state of sports media Tuesday night has been a source of much talk on sports talk radio and much buzz in the sports blogosphere.
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Esiason, Carton in morning bump up WFAN ratings
April 29, 2008
Eight months after assuming Don Imus' old morning perch at WFAN, Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton continue to show ratings strength - no matter how many e-mails I get from people annoyed by them.
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ESPN ventures into Tribeca Film Festival
April 27, 2008
Somewhere uptown, Chris Berman was busy prepping for the draft, perhaps by spraying Mel Kiper Jr.'s hair. And in Bristol, Stephen A. no doubt was screaming about Shaq or Dirk or Flip.
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Reynolds catches on with SNY as analyst
April 25, 2008
The statistics for the Class A Wausau (Wis.) Timbers of 1981 hint at the future of two players who were roommates that summer:
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SNY rolls out more talk radio on TV
April 22, 2008
The news hit the Internet late Sunday, yanking the string on the back of the talking dummy that is New York sports talk and setting the stage for a long, chatty day.
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Milbury isn't afraid to let comments fly
April 20, 2008
Let us see, where to begin? How about Sean Avery's back-to-the-action, stick-waving, Martin Brodeur-baiting antics of this past week?
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Knicks making mark on playoffs - in booth
April 18, 2008
For the first time since 1987 and only the third time since
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Knicks find way to curb fans' hunger
April 15, 2008
'Welcome to Fantasy Island, where all your dreams come true!" Lace Green shouted last night to no one in particular.
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Can 'Friday Night Lights' be the exception?
April 13, 2008
Jason Katims was born in Brooklyn, spent his early childhood at the Ebbets Field Apartments and is a lifelong Mets fan. In other words, he's one of us - a sports guy.
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Execs can't get enough of Yankees-Red Sox
April 11, 2008
It's a tradition unlike any other. It's a rite of spring.
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Will ESPN be up to par on Masters?
April 8, 2008
ESPN at the Masters? What's next, Dick Vitale calling the World Chess Championship? Chris Berman on the Olympic equestrian finals?
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TBS takes swing with Sunday baseball
April 6, 2008
Big news, Baseball Town: Starting today, there's even more of it on TV!
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Under Walsh, Knicks' media policy: Upbeat writers!
April 3, 2008
James Dolan was listing Donnie Walsh's areas of authority yesterday when he smirked and added this before a roomful of journalists:
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Yanks pull plug on Joba's radio gig
April 1, 2008
It long has been a battlefield in the local sports talk radio wars: Sign players for paid spots and hope they attract attention (and perhaps listeners), or at least show up on time.
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Bob Knight has been welcome presence for ESPN
March 23, 2008
I almost got Bob Knight to hang up on me.
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CBS' McManus employs double team during 'madness'
March 21, 2008
The morning planning meeting for top CBS Evening News executives was wrapping up yesterday when someone wished the man at the head of the table well in what would be a busy day.
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Nantz believes Packer should be in Hall of Fame
March 18, 2008
The sports jackets are hideous. The basketball shorts are short. The TV graphics are rudimentary.
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'Madness' is still big without big-market teams
March 14, 2008
The NCAA Tournament doesn't need New York. It never really did, and it long ago played a key role in diminishing the city as college basketball's postseason soul by eclipsing the NIT.
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WNBC's Bruce Beck serves up local flavor
March 11, 2008
The video quality wasn't great, but there it was: Hofstra upsetting Johns Hopkins in lacrosse, showcased on the Ch. 4 news just before "Saturday Night Live."
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'Black Magic' salutes black innovators on ESPN
March 9, 2008
There is a good chance you never have heard of John B. McLendon Jr., which says more about America than it does about you.
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ESPN's Andrews on everyone's 'A' list
March 7, 2008
Playboy conducted an online poll in November to determine America's "sexiest sportscaster" (female division, naturally).
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Venerable Kiner begins 47th season covering Mets
March 4, 2008
It took 10 minutes, a bit longer than usual, but Ralph Kiner eventually did what he always does:
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Bon Jovi not just a name in Arena Football League
March 2, 2008
At first, there was no escaping what seemed a logical assumption: That this was a lark, a goof, a weird, fleeting diversion for a guy with bigger stages to fill.
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Ferrell taking takeout from sports movies
February 29, 2008
Will Ferrell was anticipating the question, because it was inevitable, as it has been from the moment he agreed to grow an Afro, don short shorts and channel his inner Darnell Hillman.
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FSNY to be renamed MSG Plus
February 26, 2008
There is no mystery to the fact that the Knicks' TV ratings are in the toilet. Morbid curiosity long since gave way to numb indifference.
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WFAN's Boomer, Carton 'having a blast'
February 22, 2008
'I'm not a lunatic," Craig Carton said. "I'm not crazy. I don't fly by the seat of my pants."
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Hagin brings experience to Mets radio
February 19, 2008
Even on the phone from Colorado yesterday, Wayne Hagin surely sounded the part. The guy has classic broadcaster pipes to complement a long, deep resume and a trove of baseball stories.
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Red Barber's influence still ever-present
February 17, 2008
Curt Smith, a prominent baseball broadcasting historian, once compared Red Barber and Mel Allen this way:
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'Wow!' for Fox's booth, too
February 4, 2008
Across the continent, from Long Island to Fox's vast compound outside University of Phoenix Stadium, what likely will be the largest TV audience in the history of American sports was losing its collective head.
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Fox's Bradshaw once called Coughlin a 'jerk'
February 3, 2008
'Jerk!"
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FOX's pregame show will mix celebs with football
January 31, 2008
Here's the thing: If you care about the particulars of Super Bowl XLII, you will know all there is to know by 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Coughlin shocks by having fun on Media Day
January 30, 2008
Tom Coughlin showed up early, of course. Even earlier - by two full minutes - than the five minutes early he famously requires of his players.
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Super Bowl sets record for media credentials
January 29, 2008
The Super Bowl always is big - comically, impossibly, grotesquely big.
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Jaws keeps critical eye on Giants, Pats
January 27, 2008
It's a good thing the Super Bowl is only a week away. I believe the cafeteria ladies at NFL Films are starting to pick up on my tendencies.
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Lack of tickets super frustrating
January 25, 2008
Sean Murphy has had his Giants season tickets since 1989, has friends who have had theirs since 1956 and is part of a network of tailgaters that represents dozens of season ticket accounts.
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America thinks Giants are Super
January 22, 2008
They beached America's Team. They froze out America's Quarterback.
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Ron Jaworski sees a big improvement in Giants
January 20, 2008
Short of hiding under an assistant coach's desk in East Rutherford or Green Bay, it was the best available seat from which to prepare for the NFC Championship Game:
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Fox's Oliver sees big change in Giants' defense
January 18, 2008
It arguably was the low point of a season once seemingly headed nowhere.
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Jocks and starlets have always been an item
January 12, 2008
A weekend in Cabo with a B-list starlet? You call that a distraction?
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Former Cowboy Aikman, now an analyst, is objective
January 11, 2008
Troy Aikman started out laughing at the inevitable line of questions. Later, he became mildly annoyed, calling it a "ridiculous point."
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Latest spectacle has compelling figure in Clemens
January 8, 2008
The truth about what went into Roger Clemens' tush and when gets more muddled by the day, but one thing has become clear in the latest 21st century sports media spectacle: Nothing -- not even the long, sordid Barry Bonds saga -- has produced a central character as compelling as the glowering, angry Rocket.
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A look back, and ahead, in sports media
December 30, 2007
New York sports media Person of the Year
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Mitchell Report gives baseball center stage
December 14, 2007
Alex Rodriguez is nearly as fascinating a media figure as he is a baseball player, but yesterday he outdid himself with this trick:
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Mex on Mustache title: A great honor
July 13, 2007
Eleven Gold Gloves? Nice.
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"Freeview" a preview of things to come
December 31, 2006
The Sunday editor had no interest in a sports media Year in Review. He said to look ahead.
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Francesa feels haunted by Lidle interview
October 12, 2006
Mike Francesa understands as well as anyone the rough-and-tumble reality of sports talk radio, where arguments often are just for fun and ratings, and quickly disappear into the ether.
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Will Giants' song be: "Is that all there is?
December 24, 2005
Will Allen stood on the greenish sand of FedEx Field Saturday, trying to explain what went wrong on one of the most dismal days of his career. Just to rub it in, "Hail to the Redskins'' blared from the stands as he spoke, nearly drowning him out.
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