L.A. Avengers folding
As the Urban Poet might say, now they actually have something to avenge.
Posted in The Bigs, The Biz | No Comments »The Biz Archive
Why does ABC continue to cling to the Rose Bowl?
Apropos of the SEC’s recent playoff proposal (which was shot down, of course), I have to say that I find it interesting how much ABC clings to the Rose Bowl. Yes, it has great tradition. Yes, it’s in a pretty setting. Yes, the flowers are lovely. But you have an entire generation of fans that [...]
Posted in BCS, Pac-10, The Biz | 1 Comment »Recruiting might be dirty (Part 2)
Special thanks to SBR reader Defender90 who sent us this story from SI.com, defending Coach Floyd for offering Lil’ Romeo a scholarship. Now, again I have no problem with offering a kid a scholarship to get another player and if DeMar DeRozan walks away from SC after a season Lil’ Romeo might find himself without [...]
Posted in Clemson, The Biz, USC | No Comments »USC and the Coliseum Commission strike a deal
Well, it all got worked out (almost).* All that is needed is for the Commission and SC to decide who is going to sign up for a 10-year $50 million dollar deal to change the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to the “ProFlowers.com Memorial Coliseum” or the “Trader Joe’s Memorial Coliseum.” We’re very glad that they [...]
Posted in The Biz, USC | No Comments »Rating your college football broadcasters
Please read this outstanding breakdown of the National College Football broadcasts this past season from Awful Announcing. Great work. Now my 2 cents: In the pre-season, I made a list of analysts and announcers that I liked. Now, I took serious heat for my Danielson and Ward opinion. After watching them in 2007, I must [...]
Posted in The Biz | No Comments »Week 2 TV Games and Announcer List
Thanks again to Awful Announcing for the list of games and TV crews. This week Herbie gets a home game as Gameday is in Baton Rouge and he and Musburger will call the game on ESPN (ABC is running NASCAR).
Posted in LSU, The Biz, Va Tech | No Comments »ESPN has lost its mind
Here in Michael Hesitand’s twice weekly press release column, we find this: On tap: ESPN’s College GameDay preview show has viewer interaction — like when fans in the crowd behind the set use their cellphones to call buddies to find out where to move to get in TV camera shots. But starting Saturday, there will [...]
Posted in The Biz | No Comments »Week 1, on your couch
Thanks to Awful Announcing for having someone compile this list. Here are the highlights: Tomorrow, ESPN begins to completely whip our ass with the 25-hour pregame nightmare. Then we get LSU and Miss St with Fowler, Flutie, and James (are you kidding me that we have to put up with Craig James in the booth [...]
Posted in Cal, Georgia, Georgia Tech, LSU, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Syracuse, Tennessee, The Biz, UCLA, Va Tech | 1 Comment »From the “Lack of Originality” dept.
Yesterday, SI.com, in an effort to plug its recent FanNation venture, presents the battle between college and the pros (Mandel v. Perloff). If you haven’t yet checked out SI.com’s new partner, FanNation, it’s got a pretty cool feature where two users can challenge each other to a “Throwdown.” SI.com NFL producer Andrew Perloff and [Mandel] [...]
Posted in The Biz | No Comments »Best (and worst) announcers and analysts
In his most recent mailbag, college football’s newest author* ranks his favorite announcers. My USC and LSU of play-by-play guys, if you will, remain the same — Ron Franklin and Brent Musburger. (Don’t start with me, Brent haters. I’m not ashamed to admit I still get a kick out of hearing those three words: “You’re [...]
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