As pleased as I am by the CBS coverage of NCAA basketball this weekend, I decided to try something different for Friday night's game with the University of Houston. Since it was late at night and far away on the West Coast, I thought I would use only the radio and let the play-by-play voice of Johnny Holliday of the Terrapin Sports Network take me to another place.
Great choice. Maybe I am just too far gone as a Terps fan, but it was nearly transcendent. More on that radio high later -- and I am hoping you will share your viewing/listening experience of the Terps win here.
But first, this from my friend and colleague Milton Kent, who says he was also transported to another place by an aspect of Terps media coverage Friday night -- and it was not such a happy place. Here's Milton on the crawls WJZ was running Friday night:
Kent, whose sociologically-informed sports commentaries can be heard every Monday at 5:30 p.m. on WYPR-FM (88.1), wasn't alone in his irritation.
Here's one of the comments posted at Z on TV Saturday in reaction to a Friday night post I wrote on NCAA hoops TV:
But who's counting?
Seriously, though, are others listening to Holliday and Chris Knoche even with the Terps on TV and the Web? Beyond the Terps victory, I think my great pleasure Friday night was partially connected to memories of a baby boomer childhood listening late at night in bed to my beloved 1957 Milwaukee Braves baseball team playing on the road.
But how about you? How did you follow the Terps Friday? How will you do so on Sunday?