Results tagged “Al Michaels” from The Sports Desk
Columnist Brian Lowry of the entertainment newspaper Variety says journalists -- sportswriters, newscasters, everyone -- do too much predicting and too little reporting these days:
Lay part of the blame on ESPN and a sports culture shot full of steroids in more ways than one. Bob Costas examined that dynamic in his HBO series "Costas Now," in which veteran play-by-play man Al Michaels questioned how sportswriters on ESPN's talk programs can harbor such fevered opinions about so many obscure issues -- attacking a first-round NBA playoff game as if it were the Treaty of Versailles.
Read Lowry's whole column by clicking here.
What do you think? Do you want sportswriters to try to tell you what's going to happen? Or do you want them to work harder to tell you what is happening?
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