PSL'S: BAD INVESTMENTS

November 21, 2008 - NOT that anyone has money left to throw at Jets or Giants PSLs, but even in good times they'd still be absurdly expensive and worthless. Jack, from Jack and the Beanstalk, had a better shot. Yet the local news and sports media - and politicians, most of whom have no trouble attending the biggest ticket games continue to give this malodorous scheme a look-away pass. With New York the No. 1...

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GIVE THESE TRASH ACTS THAT GOOD OL' COLLEGE CRY

November 17, 2008 - HAIL, hail, the gangs are all here! Big-time college football continues to look more like prison gangs squaring off in the exercise yard. From helmet cage-to-cage trash-talking after every play...more >
NETWORKS 'CLOSED'-MINDED ON CAPTIONS

November 16, 2008 - HOW useful is closed cap tioning to the deaf, the hearing impaired and the legions watching games in pubs when the transcriptions lag well behind the live telecasts? It's better than nothing...more >
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BUSINESS TV IS A SOAP OPERA

November 16, 2008 - Ever since this latest stock market disaster, I've been drawn to America's financial news cable channels, CNBC, Fox Business Channel, Bloomberg, CNN's business-specific programming and...more >
IT'S NBA'S 'YOUR SHOW OF NO-SHOWS'

November 14, 2008 - WHAT might have been the biggest story of the week was right there on TV, Wednesday night, hiding in plain sight. Throughout MSG's telecast of Knicks at Memphis, nearly every shot showed rows...more >
PSLS NOT FAIR AT BLOWOUT PRICES

November 10, 2008 - HOW would you like to spend $40,000, $60,000, $100,000 on personal seat licenses - plus annual and escalating ticket costs and parking - and get a game such as Rams-Jets, one that's...more >
NFL NETWORK DROPS THE BALL

November 9, 2008 - IF YOU could get it, Thursday night, there it was - exactly what live TV hopes for, lives for, prays for, pays for: 3:58 left, Broncos down three at Cleveland, have a fourth-and-one at their own 45...more >
PRIMETIME

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY

November 9, 2008 - By now you likely know the story, perhaps you've seen it reported on TV: Daily newspapers throughout the country are approaching the precipice of extinction. In an age of techno immediacy and...more >
ALL-SPORTS NETWORKS AREN'T ALL RIGHT

November 7, 2008 - THE problem with all-sports networks is that we expect too much of them. We expect that given their only focus, they will know at least as much as those inclined to watch and listen. And that's a...more >
FOX PROMOS PRE-EMPT TITAN-IC FINISH

November 3, 2008 - WE know, we know, it's only early 21st century. Still, isn't there a way that Fox could sacrifice just one network promo to show 15 more seconds of live football? Happened again, yesterday...more >
NY VOICES SCREAM OVER GAMES

November 2, 2008 - IF YOU didn't know bet ter, last Sunday - if you didn't know the Jets were rallying to take the lead at home late in a regular-season game against a bad Chiefs team - Jets' radio...more >