Press Row

I recently chatted with Matt Crevin from Voice of the Box, who managed to catch me on video and talked about some of my previous football work experiences.  Check it out…

Just updating a previous post: it looks like Len Pasquarelli has returned to ESPN.com.
A podcast posted today (9/2/08) featured Pasquarelli making division predictions with Jeremy Green.  Check out where it appeared on ESPN’s NFL page:

For starters: we’re certainly glad to see that Len has recovered well enough from his heart surgery to return to the [...]

Cold, Hard Football Facts embodies everything that the new wave of sports media represents.
They have the time and resources to take deeper dives that the “lowest common denominator” newspapers don’t touch. They can post things that have little to do with the game, without worrying about the editor’s wrath. Their excellent writing gets publicity in [...]

Like him or not—and I don’t think many do—Jay Mariotti’s departure from the Chicago Sun-Times leaves yet another sizeable void in the sports newspaper world.
While his editor seems to think Mariotti’s strange exit will produce some mysterious spike in readership, bringing back all those jilted Chicagoans that just boycotted the paper because of Mariotti, [...]

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 [...]

Lost in today’s celebration of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s six newest members (including former 49ers great Fred Dean) was the 40th annual presentation of the Dick McCann Memorial Award.

Per the Pro Football HOF’s website: “The Dick McCann Memorial Award, which is named after the first director of the Pro Football Hall of [...]

- 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, [...]

What Are Abbott Lines?
After the legendary Boston Garden closed in 1995, auctioneers looking for salvageable memorabilia found highly valuable pieces in out-of-the-way places: An abandoned darkroom was inches deep in vintage photos of Hall of Famers, while the arena’s original blueprints were stashed in a wooden trunk near the roof. It seems safe to say [...]

We just learned of some more big-time departures from the newspaper industry from here in the Bay Area.
The Bay Area News Group–controlled by MediaNews Group and responsible for the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune–has let go of Eric Gilmore, Bill Soliday, Dave Del Grande and Warriors beat reporter Geoff Lepper.
Soliday covered pro [...]

What Are Abbott Lines?
“Dallas Cowboys fans might want to wear comfortable shoes to the new stadium in Arlington. The team estimates that some ticket holders will walk nearly a mile from their parking spaces to the stadium, which opens next year. But Cowboys officials also said that shouldn’t be an adjustment because the back-row parking [...]