NBC strains to get every splish, splash

May 9, 2008

Laying up more sports media notes while being thankful that no one tries to throttle me while I'm typing the way opposing players do to LeBron James when he drives to the basket:

Recent columns

• Big Brown rides hot as a Derby hopeful

  May 2, 2008

  More sports media notes to consider while you try to escape this spring's extra-powerful pollen attack (which thus quite literally makes this column something to sneeze at):

• Combing picks

  April 25, 2008

  Presenting another week of sports media notes while wondering whether I can convince my wife - citing noted horticulturist Peter Griffin of Family Guy - that dandelions count as flowers:

• 3 points of view

  April 18, 2008

  Typing up sports media notes while wondering why the pope is visiting the stadiums that are home to the Nationals and Yankees but not the Cardinals:

• 1 shot at Masters to tell story right

  April 11, 2008

  Unfurling another week's sports media notes while trying to convince my wife that the plastic shopping bags lodged in our bushes and trees are just as aesthetically pleasing in their own way as the azaleas of Augusta National:

• No slippers

  April 4, 2008

  Presenting this week's sports media notes while wondering why I haven't been getting any bids from people who want to buy the rights to the domain name watchingsportsandeatingcheezits.com:

• O's announcers Thorne, Martinez working a heavy load this year

  March 28, 2008

  It's Friday, and so here's one more unpleasant thing before the weekend - another set of sports media notes:

• O's expectations dim despite bright spots

  March 21, 2008

  Presenting this week's sports media notes while wondering why talk of recession never seems to involve my waistline:

• Dancing on job

  March 14, 2008

  Presenting this week's sports media notes while assuring you, dear reader, that at those rates, I was not Client 8:

• Eyes on Caps' Ovechkin

  March 7, 2008

  Presenting the weekly sports media notes, guaranteed to be trans-fat-free:

• Salisbury feels 'liberated' by ESPN departure

  February 29, 2008

  Yet another set of weekly sports media notes, where - unlike in politics - middle names don't matter:

• HBO documentary tells compelling story of Joe Louis

  February 22, 2008

  Presenting this week's sports media notes while keeping one eye out for falling spy satellite pieces:

• O's spring radio broadcasts set; ESPN reworks roles

  February 15, 2008

  Sports media notes to pick over, like that box of Valentine's chocolates you'll dive into after giving your sweetheart at least a one-day head start:

• Frager: Steady diet of Ripken offers much iron, few archival clips

  July 20, 2007

  And now back to our regularly scheduled sports media notebook, but there's no need to TiVo it.

• In young season, MASN gets no-decision on O's

  April 6, 2007

  Early in the baseball season, when everything is new, each movement on the field is put under a microscope. So the Orioles' 0-3 start gets scrutinized far more than a three-game losing streak in the middle of the season.

• Barbaro's injury brings NBC's broadcast back to reality

  May 21, 2006

  It was all about Barbaro during NBC's Preakness telecast yesterday - before the race, during the race, after the race.

• If no Phelps, NBC would have pooled resources

  August 20, 2004

  IF NBC DIDN'T have Michael Phelps, the network would have had to invent him.

• Inundated by Phelps updates, you might want to practice your flip turn

  August 13, 2004

  IF YOU REALLY want to live the suspenseful television experience of following Michael Phelps' quest for seven or eight gold medals at the Athens Olympics, you'll have to work at it.