The NFL off-season under normal circumstances is a time of free-agent rumors and players complaining about their contracts. We’re used to it. This off-season rumors take on a new light as they surround the future of the on-field product as we know it. Rumors are by definition gossip, but if there is any truth to the reported NFLPA ‘boycott’ of the […]
College Basketball
NCAA March Madness on Demand Gets an Assist from Ball State Sports Link
The upcoming NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament will have unprecedented coverage with every game being broadcast in its entirety and a new ‘March Madness Social Arena’ – powered by a newly formed partnership between Turner Sports, the NCAA and Ball State University. “Turner Sports has selected Ball State University as its school to partner for the inaugural launch […]
College Basketball
Hoops and the Harm?
Forget Thanksgiving, Christmas or Super Bowl Sunday. The best day of the year (in my opinion) is the first day of the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament. The buzz of being in a newsroom that day is pretty special. All games are on, and despite trying to be unbiased journalists, everyone is cheering for their alma mater or […]
College Basketball
Sports Media Misses the Point of the BYU Honor Code
BYU’s Brandon Davies suspended for the rest of the College Basketball season after honor code violation (photo courtesy: Associated Press) I usually don’t write about stuff like this. First, it’s dealing with religion, second, it’s a team I don’t care about (Sorry, BYU) and I don’t follow college sports as, um, religiously as I do […]
