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Random notes from cocktail napkins -- August 6, 2010
 Posted 8/6/2010 11:37:00 AM
Great to hear Keith Olbermann is off Sunday Night Football on NBC. Back in the day, I always thought he and Dan Patrick were the best pairing on Sportscenter. But since becoming a whining politico ninny and showing us his true colors on MSNBC, he comes off as a smarmy, condescending pinko. Once you get political, you shouldn't be involved with a sports broadcast. It's the same reason ESPN's Rush Limbaugh Experiment was a bad idea. I think all of us believe in a separation of Sports and Politics. Not to mention the former Rebeca Lobo stalker was awful trying to force the yuchs on Sunday nights. Maybe that guy who comes on after him on MSNBC should get at it, what's that, Rachel Maddow is a chick? Uh ... never mind.
Speaking of women with men's haircuts ... Pam Ward has been dropped to ESPNU. No more throwing to her after College ...
Mike Bell's ACC Media Days blog
Posted 7/27/2010 8:15:00 AM
The SEC may dominate the BCS Championships and have all the monster stadiums, but it comes up a little short when it comes to media access with its players and coaches. The SEC Media Days were three days of monkeying around, playing hurry-up-and-wait, trying to interview Nick Saban and Derek Dooley. Combine that with the fact it takes place in a shopping mall, so every few minutes, some toothless goober in a 'Bama shirt waddles by and asks "Where's Coach Saban?" while we're on the air. "Yeah Jethro, Coach is over at the food court, he's got a corn dog just for you, and I'm wearing a headset and microphone because I'm pretending to be an air traffic controller ..."
Some coaches don't do radio row; these being the Elvis' of the sport -- Urban Meyer and Nick Saban were a no-show. Even Les Miles, whose stock has fallen faster than ...
Mike's SEC Media Days Blog
Posted 7/22/2010 11:27:00 AM
Once again The Southeast's media elite have gathered in Hoover Alabama. Along with a gaggle of mouth breathing, knuckle dragging goobers milling about the hotel lobby with Arkansas or Alabama helmets hoping for an autograph from a player or coach. TV and radio is here from places like Fayetteville, Arkansas and Lake City, Florida. Anybody who thinks Atlanta radio stinks should spend five minutes on the radio row here at The Wynfrey. From reciting amendments to the SEC rule book to breaking down LSU's 4th string tight end, listening to these shows make you feel that radio announcing is just one step above circus clown on the entertainment ladder.
There's a two man show from upstate South Carolina that has a large station banner behind them featuring a huge picture of the hosts doing their show. It's like that scene in "Airplane" when airport manager Lloyd Bridges lights a cigarette ...
Random notes from cocktail napkins -- July 20, 2010
Posted 7/20/2010 2:32:00 PM
Remember that Dana Carvey grumpy-old-man skit on "Saturday Night Live" back in the 90's? How he'd say, "back in my time, we didn't have antibiotics, so if you got a cut it would get infected and then your finger would turn green and eventually it fell off, and we liked it that way" ... that's the way I feel about almost everything in sports these days. Our current generation of jocks act more like chicks. The guys were just mentally and physically tougher back in the day.
A guy throws at somebody and gets a four-game suspension? Good for Jonny Venters for throwing back-to-back beanballs at that big tub of goo Prince Fielder, even if he wasn't hotdogging with his home run swing follow-through. A guy hits a home run; put him on his ass the next at bat. That's what Don Larsen and Bob Gibson used to do ... ...
More random notes from cocktail napkins...
Posted 7/12/2010 3:10:00 PM
Just watched Spain win its first World Cup -- what an ugly game. Between all the flopping and yellow cards and the stupid horns, I almost wished I was watching the WNBA ... on second thought, no ... it wasn't that bad.
So let me get this straight: the greatest basketball player of this generation has to relocate to another team and share the basketball with two other superstars to win a title? Yeah, that's just the way Michael Jordan would've done it ...
First, Cavs owner Dan Gilbert makes an ass out of himself while popping off about LeBron leaving. Then, more comments from the peanut gallery, this time from The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who says Gilbert thinks of James as a runaway slave. Hey, it's the first ink he's gotten in any newspaper since he took shots at Obama back in 2008. What is Jesse's job again? Oh yeah, I ...
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