So after months of slightly bashing baseball fandom and management, I’m getting back in the leather, rubber and cork mode. For the New York Beacon, there’s a small (very small, no PDF yet) spring training preview of the World Series champs as the Yankees started camp recently. Basically, it’s a quick comparison of how camp was last season (with far more distractions) in contrast to today (relaxed in going for the repeat). Not much special to say.
Meanwhile, for something far more substantive, check out Wednesday's contribution to The Perpetual Post. Howard Megdal and I discussed the professional prospects of Brittney Griner, the freshman sensation of the Baylor Lady Bears.
She’s the curious case in light of a boastful claim from NBA Commissioner David Stern that a woman will play in the NBA within a decade. Now, whether or not this is true, we don’t know. However, it appears from both Howard and me that she may not be that player, but can be a transcendent professional, regardless.
Here's the recent Outside the Lines feature on her:
As old school hip-hop wannabes used to say, “Check me out, homes!”
In the next week, expect plenty more from outside of Scribe, including another timely essay for March’s Norman Einstein’s Magazine and baseball previews for The Perpetual Post.
Perception is reality, the saying goes. Modern players can never transcend time, athletes only care about the money and the fan is never wrong. Yet, all you need to do is dig a little deeper to find the truth. As a freelance sportswriter, my job is to give the audience a story around what just happened. As a consumer, I expect that sports will always provide more than I bargained for. As a fan, my hopes are to be enlightened by more than points. Welcome to the mind of a sports scribe.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Slow
On the slowest, most maddening sports day of the year, you just wish that you could either skip the rest of the day or rewind to when there was something truly attention-grabbing. Kind of like what Pharcyde did back in the day.
Well, here's something to tickle your fancy.
On Sunday, Bob Ley of ESPN's underrated program, Outside the Lines, talked about the impact of the 2010 World Cup on South Africa as soccer/football fans anticipate the games in a year's time. While a half-hour program certainly can't begin to encapsulate all of the day-to-day minutae or the budding emotions within South Africans (and maybe the African continent as a whole?), it can certainly build awareness.
So while many of you were probably recovering from an exciting Saturday night, check these clips, courtesty of the recently-launced ESPN YouTube channel.
Videos cannot be embedded from the channel and a five-second ad will appear before each clip.
South African Voices
South Africa and Racism
Sights, sounds and soccer in South Africa
Voices of South Africa
Well, here's something to tickle your fancy.
On Sunday, Bob Ley of ESPN's underrated program, Outside the Lines, talked about the impact of the 2010 World Cup on South Africa as soccer/football fans anticipate the games in a year's time. While a half-hour program certainly can't begin to encapsulate all of the day-to-day minutae or the budding emotions within South Africans (and maybe the African continent as a whole?), it can certainly build awareness.
So while many of you were probably recovering from an exciting Saturday night, check these clips, courtesty of the recently-launced ESPN YouTube channel.
Videos cannot be embedded from the channel and a five-second ad will appear before each clip.
South African Voices
South Africa and Racism
Sights, sounds and soccer in South Africa
Voices of South Africa
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