New sports seasons are almost upon us and with that, it’s time to start training. Not on the field or court this time, but on smartphones. We live in an era in which 64% all American adults own handsets that… Read More »Coaches, administrators and front office staffs are athletes’ key to sports social media education
A former award-winning radio news reporter, Ken Fang is a respected sports media blogger for his own FangsBites.com as well as Awful Announcing. What I enjoy most about him as well as many others that report about media, he has… Read More »You don’t need to be a household name to be a great sports broadcaster
I continue my series of comments from some of the top sports television reporters in the country about what makes a good play-by-play announcer and color analyst. Today, John Ourand from Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily… Read More »Sports Business Journal’s/Daily’s John Ourand prefers sports analysts check jargon at the door
It’s a day he’s prepared for all of his life. Well, his life the last five months. For anyone associated with or is a fan of the National Football League, the NFL Draft is like every holiday on the calendar… Read More »Like a kid in a candy store, NFL Draft weekend is like a days-long treat for analyst Charles Davis
The best sports announcers enrich, but don’t dominate a telecast, says Tampa Bay Times’ sports broadcast critic, Tom Jones. Sportscasters also teach him something he didn’t know before he tuned into the game. Jones is one of the sports media reporters… Read More »Tampa Bay Times’ Jones wants to learn something he didn’t already know from sports broadcasts
We’ve been watching A LOT of sports lately. College football bowl games started the year, and a SUPER Bowl followed. NBA action highlighted a few screens but during the past three weeks, our nation’s eyes have turned to the NCAA… Read More »Ed Sherman shares what he thinks makes good sports broadcasters
With the NCAA Basketball Tournament nearly upon us, I started to think about advertiser value or as the Association calls them, “corporate partners.” Reports of late reveal that Super Bowl advertisers, while they dish out millions of dollars for a… Read More »Looking for Super Bowl ad momentum after the game
People have tasked to find ways about how to silence anonymous Twitter users that post threats and bully others. It only took Curt Schilling a few hours. Last week, Schilling, a retired Major League Baseball pitcher, proudly tweeted congratulations to his… Read More »Curt Schilling tracked Twitter trolls and put social media ugliness on notice
It’s NFL Combine week, a time when potential NFL draft prospects don skin-tight Under Armor skivvies and run really fast and jump super far. Or at least that’s the goal. As important as it is for young football players to… Read More »NFL Combine athletes: respect the media and the process. And lift heavy weights
Buzzwords in the publicity, public relations, marketing and advertising industries seem to pop into our vocabularies and change by the day. Within the last two years, those of us that work to get messages heard glommed onto what many of… Read More »Ed Sabol was the founder of NFL storytelling