Showing posts with label ESPN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ESPN. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Making blogs (including this one) better

A great article on a blog I read from time to time on Yahoo!.

Hopefully, this increasing "urban sprawl" of blogging will lead, as Puck Daddy indicates, to local bloggers landing jobs in mainstream media as large, conglomerate companies seek to localize content.

Which, in turn, means people like me might be able to obtain jobs for companies like, let's say, ESPN. Fingers are crossed...

Friday, February 6, 2009

ESPN gives front page treatment to NHL!

In case you haven't seen it yet, Jerome Iginla and his NHL compatriots have graced the front page of ESPN's Web page today. I dig it, let me tell you. After seeing the sport buried behind the out of season MLB and my own beloved sport of soccer on the tabbed browsing on ESPN's site, it was a welcome sight to see hockey get some love.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

ESPN + Spokane = Gonzaga bedlam

In case anyone is still harboring hopes of getting on television for their fleeting 5 seconds behind Digger Phelps' ubiquitous highlighter, here's some hope for you: ESPN's College GameDay will be coming to Spokane this Saturday as the 18th-ranked Zags host the 14th-ranked University of Memphis Tigers.

Look for Jeremy Pargo (who's a friendly guy, FYI) and Mike Goodson to press Tyreke Evans. I haven't been impressed with Evans the few times that I've seen him this year, and I think this is definitely a winnable game for the Zags if they can force Evans into bad decisions and turnovers. The Zags will have to be strong inside against Shawn Taggart, Robert Dozier and Pierre Niles-Henderson to keep them off the offensive glass to win as well. As a team, Memphis holds a +4 turnover margin and nearly a +5 rebound margin.

As a side note on a team Gonzaga has dispatched of twice this season, what happened to Tennessee? Talk about unmotivated and unfocused -- a total of five losses in the past two months. Games against Gonzaga and Memphis ended with losses to quality teams. But Kentucky, LSU and Kansas aren't the best resume builders. Tennessee should dominate the second half of their schedule against a weak Southeastern Conference this season. It will be imperative for them to find a go-to-guy (Wayne Chism?) if they are to be successful down the stretch. Also, here's Bruce Pearl's bare chest.