Paul Hornung died today, and his hometown of Louisville became less fun. ESPN will spend some time on Sportscenter eulogizing Hornung as Notre Dame’s Golden Boy and Vince Lombardi’s whipping boy. Louisvillians will mourn him differently. Sure, he won NFL Championships with the Packers and the Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame, but he was the […]
For as long as I can remember, I have been a guy who liked to call BS on cowardly management, corrupt policies, and bad mojo. Until today. Arrogance needed to be exposed as an unholy violation against humanity, or at least I used to think so. Dishonesty? It needs to be decried as the most repellent trait […]
I can’t stop laughing. After 40 years of annoying me and my dad before me, Dick Vitale finally made me laugh. It’s not the typically obsequious message to Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker that Vitale intends that continues to make me laugh as I write, but the Twitter handle Vitale believes belongs to Baker. I […]
Dear sports media professional- I have some bad news. You are going to get fired. That’s the way it is. It might be tomorrow, next week, or next year, but the day will come that an employer will tell you to pack a box – or have security lead you to the front door with […]
Dan McNeil, formerly of 670 The Score in Chicago, stepped on one of the growing number of broadcasting’s third rails last night when he derisively tweeted about ESPN’s Maria Taylor attire. He was fired today. “NFL sideline reporter or a host for the AVN annual awards presentation?” was the text of the offending tweet, and it […]
Like a fifth grader who puts thumbtacks on his teacher’s chair, Skip Bayless is an attention hog without the decency or moral compass to do it right. Yesterday, on the show he co-hosts with Shannon Sharpe, Bayless claimed Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dan Prescott is incapable of leading the team because he went public with his […]
My phone rang on a Sunday morning exactly 20 years ago today. It was WIBC sports director Vince Welch. “Bob Knight is being fired this morning,” he told me. This was when I was the assistant program director of the radio station, and Knight had endured a tough year. The story of his choking Neil Reed […]
And they always said their faces were made for radio! Query & Schultz, who enlightened and charmed sportstalk radio listeners for nearly a decade on WNDE-AM in Indianapolis, will make their TV debut tomorrow from 6p-7p on ISC Sports Network (Xfinity channel 81 in Indy) and the ISC app. Fans of the show are hoping for the same […]
