Results tagged “Media” from The Sports Desk

Thanks to my old colleague Larry Lipson, the Daily News' great long-time restaurant critic, for the comment he posted from retirement in Costa Rica on my item about the U.S.-England soccer match. True, Larry, the simple solution might have been to root for a tie. Though, as it turned out, the United States wasn't even up to that.

Detroit Free Press columnist Drew Sharp notes the absurdity in Detroit Tigers third baseman Carlos Guillen saying it's the media's and fans' fault the team is performing below expectations. Guillen apparently believes we set the expectations too high. I've heard players complain about negative press -- but positive?

Read Sharp by clicking here.

Columnist Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe laments that sportswriters no longer are able to know athletes on a personal level, traveling with them, drinking with them, etc. He says readers are the poorer for it, and he's right. Click here for the whole column, but first an exerpt.

A website called Serious Sports News Network (so-called because it's so un-serious) has a semi-funny article suggesting that after making a big deal about David Beckham last season, the media have forgotten about the Los Angeles Galaxy star this year. Read it by clicking here.

Tell me: Have the media dropped the ball on Beckham coverage? Or are you relieved that there's less Beckham coverage? Or do you think there's still too much Beckham coverage?

For the record: By my count, the Daily News has mentioned Beckham in articles in eight editions of the newspaper the past two weeks. The Los Angeles Times has mentioned him in six editions in that time.

During this week of the Indianapolis 500, Coca-Cola 600 and Monaco Grand Prix, ESPN.com is rolling out its experts' list of the top 25 race drivers of all time. In a well-argued rant, ESPN magazine writer Ryan McGee wonders how Richard Petty can be no higher than No. 6.

McGee's speculation includes this: "Could it be that Petty's relationship with the media kept him from compiling enough support to crack the ESPN.com top five? Is he the Jim Rice of NASCAR, doomed to pay the price for his contentious ways with sportswriters and sports fans?"

Read the whole thing by clicking here.