8:02 PMScott Wolf of the L.A. Daily News reports that USC football's unusually mediocre performance this season can be traced to lack of depth, which in turn can be derived from a downturn in recruiting.
7:45 PM The latest episode of the NBC show 30 Rock included a spoof of ESPN's Around The Horn called Sports Shouting. The spoof even included fake sports crawls, one of which read, "Jacksonville residents no longer aware of Jaguars."
7:15 PMJoey Porter was at the Heat game Thursday night. And when the Dolphins LB showed up on the big screen scoreboard, the hometown fans reportedly booed.
Dan Steinberg of DC SPORTS BOG has an audio-video sync’d up look at Georgetown radio announcer Rich Chvotkin as he straps on the pom-poms in a Hoya victory over Villanova.
Some of you may know that we were a longtime radio PBP guy for baseball, hockey and basketball, so seeing an announcer so blatantly cheer for the team he broadcasts pains us. But since virtually every play-by-play man in the business is now nothing more than a bought-off mouthpiece for the home team, we’re becoming more and more immune to the behavior.
Be aware that cheerleading is now a prerequisite if you plan to try to brave the industry’s climes.
