New Media Review: NHL
Overview
The NHL is still that “other sport” that only a handful of your friends watch—but the ones that do can’t get enough of it. They probably played in their youth and still talk about “diamonds” and “finding the top of the circle” or other lingo that, to the rest of the world, might as well [...]
New Media Review: MLB
Overview
The lockout. Steroid scandals. The salary cap debate. Baseball, of the four major sports, has endured the most black clouds of anyone. Yet despite a talent and popularity surge in the NBA, MLB remains the second most popular and profitable sport behind the NFL.
A very interesting era in baseball is about to begin: the post-steroid [...]
New Media Review: NBA
Overview
The NBA has enjoyed quite a marketing facelift over the last few seasons, hasn’t it? The NBA of the late ‘90s and early 2000’s—aside from Jordan, of course—left us a lockout, the Jailblazers, Latrell Sprewell, and some of the slowest, most boring basketball in recent memory. It didn’t help that some of the few [...]
Introducing the Twitter database and New Media Review
More and more athletes are getting on Twitter these days. While some people aren’t exactly sure how Twitter benefits anyone, it’s a great medium for athletes and teams to engage with fans in new ways. How else could regular every-day fans talk to Lance Armstrong about where he buys his coffee?
I know some of you [...]
Did NFL clamp down on highlight footage usage?
A very minor observation, but if you’ve been watching highlights on ESPN and FOX Sports (and their Internet counterparts) you might have noticed a dramatic decline in use of highlight footage.
For as long as I can remember, any mention of an NFL player would warrant a run of highlights. Now, we’re treated to zooming in [...]
Sports Blogs: The Next Step (Part 1)
In every news industry besides sports, blogs and websites are increasingly considered among the elite sources for information. In tech, some of the most influential outlets and journalists are bloggers or web-only, like Gizmodo, Engadget, and TechCrunch, to name a few of Technorati’s most popular blogs. The Huffington Post is one of the most read [...]
The downfall of credibility
To the casual fan, the world of sports media looks stronger than ever.
Networks like ESPN/ABC and FOX offer unprecedented levels of coverage, both online and on television. (Just look at NBC’s projected coverage of the Olympics–a great read from The Globe and Mail in Canada.) The blogging realm gains more and more steam, with thousands [...]
ESPN NFL Blog Network duplicates what already exists
I’ll be doing more with this in the next few days, but for now, I suppose I’m just out to prove a point.
What ESPN’s NFL Blog Network has done right now is, masterfully, duplicated the strategy that has made so many other blogs successful in recent time:
1) Take people with relative clout in the industry.
2) [...]
Media news: LA Times bloodbath, bloggers get richer, disillusioned print media
- The prolonged march of death for the newspaper industry continued today as the LA Times laid off 150 (!!!) of their staffers, all part of a greater plan of eventually cutting the cord on 250 employees (!!?!??!), or 17% of their staff.
The mass genocide coincided with the resignation of Ann Marie Lipinski, [...]
Abbott Lines, 7/14 (PM) - 7/15
What Are Abbott Lines?
I remember Packer taking notes at one of those sessions, walking out late one night and saying essentially, “I’m not going to be guilty of this anymore.” And very quickly the language that so offended many of us was eliminated from his analysis. Not reduced, not lessened . . . gone. More [...]
