Radio is easy to dismiss for a giant media company like ESPN, but they weren’t going to sit idly by and watch their lineup founder as affiliates continued to shave hours of network programming. So when the network debuts its new lineup on August 17, morning drive team Golic & Wingo will be ghosts. The show […]
Not sure how it happens, but some college basketball coaches seem to believe they know as much about societal issues as they do about basketball. And they like to share that self-conferred wisdom. Iona’s Rick Pitino falls into that large pile of self-immersed bloviates. Yesterday, Pitino put on his epidemiologist cap and tweeted: Suggestion to the […]
Clemson Football has 37 players who have tested positive for COVID-19 – roughly one-third of Dabo Swinney’s Tigers. That’s a huge percentage if his program is paying attention to protocols for safety. It’s easy to make an assumption or two, start connecting dots, and come up with an intriguing and (hopefully) ridiculous conspiracy theory about why Clemson’s infection rate has risen […]
Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard is one of my favorite people in the locker room. Several times each week during the season the media is invited to talk to players at their lockers, and Leonard’s locker is usually crowded because he is insightful, honest, and popular with fans. He’s also very patient, consenting to interview […]
This is the time of self-evaluation for white managers. Looking at our own thought processes toward inclusiveness as passive or racist is not fun, but this is the perfect time to do it. If not today, when? As a radio program director and executive producer, I have hired dozens of people, and always believed I did […]
The NBA will return to the court on July 31st in Orlando for 22 of the league’s 30 teams. They will play eight regular season games each and then the playoffs will begin for the traditional 16 teams. Unlike Major League Baseball, whose greedy owners and players seem at loggerheads as to when or whether their game […]
Emmis Communications has suspended Big Joe Staysniak for one week without pay for his comments Wednesday about race. This is what traditionally happens in talk radio when comments by a host elicit outrage – get the host off the air to show there are consequences for uttering a series of statements that enflame the community. I […]
Why were Drew Brees and Big Joe Staysniak wrong? Here’s my answer – and Michael Grady’s eloquent call for empathy
Because I am in the middle of two dozen social media and text exchanges where I have been asked, “What’s wrong with what Drew Brees said?” and “What’s wrong with what Big Joe Staysniak said?” I assume others are asking the same questions. I’ll offer an answer here. They were wrong because this is a time […]
A couple of days ago, I wrote that I would no longer allow friendship or familiarity keep me quiet about being honest, even if it means calling out friends’ racism or ignorance. And it won’t. On 1070 the Fan yesterday morning, Joe Staysniak made a series of statements that some might believe reflected racism. Those comments […]
Lee Kelly passed away today. He was my teacher, as he was for so many New Albany High School students during nearly 40 years running WNAS, America’s first high school radio station. I was a high strung kid with more energy than brains, and Lee was a patient man who understood his students even better […]