It’s easy to blame television for all that lays us low and then lower. That’s the problem: It’s much too easy. Like adding one bad idea to another bad idea to make two bad ideas. Saturday, Disney’s ESPN and ABC wrapped up their annual mindless destruction of the Little League World Series with the Curacao-Nevada … Read more
Kyrie Irving was right! Planet Earth is flat, and that explains why so many people are falling off its edges, never to be seen again. Ready for this one? Longtime reader Gary Wilbur — a credible man who shares intelligent, moderately worded thoughts, nothing socially objectionable — last week learned that the fantasy football fun … Read more
Rough stretch for Tony Romo. And the feeling is pari-mutuel. Over the weekend at Los Alamitos a horse named RomoLand, the heavy favorite at 4-5, neared the starting gate when it became uncooperative and was scratched. I don’t know how or when CBS plans to punish Romo for his alleged OWI in Wisconsin, but I’d … Read more
Excuse this self-indulgence, but I need to update my Wish List: I wish, in Howie Rose’s final season, the Mets had provided him more opportunities to, “Put it in the books.” I wish that live baseball fans would stop booing every time a visiting pitcher throws to first to keep the runner close. I wish … Read more
So help me, I don’t know why. If I did, you’d be the second to know as I’d immediately share it with you. Why television execs, regional and national, have chosen to destroy sports telecasts with unneeded and unwanted excess is an ongoing study in self-nullification. What NBC did — what it chose to do … Read more
Who knew? We knew. Since Goose Gossage was a gosling, we knew. We always have. Wednesday’s Knicks-Spurs Game 1 was amazing for how the ABC/ESPN crew — the invisible, unheard crew, from cameramen to tape operators — treated it. It was treated like a basketball telecast, no reason to abandon it to press “look what … Read more
Before MLB allowed TV money to become the tail that wagged its dog, one of life’s great simple pleasures was weekend baseball. And before TV executives decided that we prefer our baseball telecasts smothered in verbal and visual detritus — as if we demanded to know the titles and speeds of the past nine pitches … Read more
Say, fellas, when you get a chance, do us all a favor and do absolutely nothing. It’s an ASAP matter, but it can wait. To only limited surprise, Adam Silver issued a look-away pass to the Spurs’ super-duper star Victor Wembanyama for landing a vicious, intended and arguably felonious, full-swinging elbow to the undefended head … Read more
PHILADELPHIA — That voice. This week, it was important to hear that voice spill through the telephone, direct from Naples, Fla., still so full of life and energy, same as it was when he first came to town 50 years ago and invited us to tag along every day with him to the ballpark and … Read more
Well, it’s official, I guess. I’m a born and raised racist. It’s all over the internet. Again. So it must be true. Recently, readers and friends have sent me a copy of a column authored by a person who has discovered indisputable proof that I’m a racist. Seizing upon columns I’ve written in which I … Read more
Last Monday, for instance, when the Met Gala was held, two of the regulars — Spike and Timothée Chalamet — opted for Game 1 against the 76ers. Source link #Devoted #fandom #core #Knicks #fabled #celebrity #row
Stephen A. Smith has always seemed like someone who wanted to try his hand at being in WWE, and he could get his chance. A recent report from Fightful Select said that ESPN is “pleased and enthusiastic” about Smith getting involved with the partnership with the “Worldwide Leader” being the home of WWE PLEs. Smith, … Read more
This was at Newark Airport, C terminal, maybe 10 years ago. John Sterling and I were on the same flight bound for Tampa, the start of another spring training for both of us, and as we whittled away the time toward boarding the plane we found ourselves, quite remarkably, transported to a place called Wellsville, … Read more
Let’s try to figure out how it happened and what they had in mind. We presume it was at a preseason meeting called by Adam Silver to determine the NBA’s postseason schedule, emphasis on TV money. And so the NBA decided to sell a stack of playoff games to can’t-DVR-them streaming services for some quick, … Read more
To hell with fans, especially in NYC, the nation’s largest TV market in which fans are mistaken for dollar signs. Source link #MLBs #greed #naked #complicit #partner
Before we tell you the rest of the story, do yourself a favor: Go to your phone, click on Instagram, and type this account: @itshannahsview. It’s OK. The rest of this column will be waiting for you when you get back. If you get back. Because if you’re like me, you’re going to want to … Read more
Not that individual tastes should serve as a scientific meter, but for years I’ve received missives from Yankees fans who wished that Howie Rose was theirs. Rose, who will pack it in after this season at age 72 — and after a serious health issue two years ago — had a natural or conditioned sense … Read more
Being a beneficent fellow, I to declare this Benefit of the Doubt Sunday. So let’s say that Adam Silver was blindsided by this; he had no idea that the NBA’s Hawks had declared March 16 a “cultural” salute game to an “iconic” strip joint in Atlanta, replete with a vulgar, N-word chanting rapper and the … Read more
If we listen closely, we can hear the grandfather, a lifelong Yankees fan, speaking to his grandson: “Oh, yeah, so many memorable moments. Did I ever tell you that I was in Yankee Stadium the day they retired CC Sabathia’s number? Yeah, what a special moment! “What was his number? Darned if I remember. It … Read more
Farmers Almanac spring forecast: “A deep, dark and foreboding sky lingers in the approaching MLB atmosphere. Fans are advised to be prepared to take cover and shelter in basements or whatever room is closest to the ground to discourage jumping from windows to escape the scene.” Another season of telecasts — free TV, cable TV, … Read more