The National Hockey League needs to wake up, and wake up real fast. This past week was one the league did not take advantage of. We are all aware of the great game Sunday when Team USA played its guts out only to lose in overtime to the Canadians in the gold medal round of the Olympics.
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Lost in the headlines this past week was the announcements by Comcast SportsNet of the upcoming television schedules for the A’s and Giants. While the world watched the Daytona 500, the AT&T at Pebble Beach, the NBA All-Star Game and of course, the Olympics, Comcast released the 2010 television schedule for the Bay Area’s baseball teams.
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With all the hype and follow-up from last week’s Super Bowl, few humans realized that the 2010 Winter Olympics were getting ready to tee it up. Friday night was the Opening Ceremony, and as usual, it was spectacular, with NBC doing another bang-up job with the broadcast. Nothing will ever equal the past Summer Olympics, but hopefully these Games will produce some magical moments.
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After a short while, we will all tire of watching and hearing about the Super Bowl. When you have two weeks between the championship games and the Super Bowl, the media frenzy around the game is surreal. Seemingly, every one who is anyone in the sports media is there. To walk around Miami this week will be like watching a who’s who in the sports reporting world. I am glad there are two weeks prior to the Super Bowl. One week is not enough.
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I can’t wait until the New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts kick off this afternoon. Although I can’t see the Jets winning the game, you never know.
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Tiger fever is all over the place this week. Unfortunately for the ex-Stanford star, it is not the type of fever he wants. We all know the details of what has transpired. Tiger Woods gets into an accident and a stream of rumors that could fill a Dean Koontz novel has followed. Every media outlet in the nation has chimed in with its own research and opinions. Well, here are mine.
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I always wonder what to write about this time of year. We still have a great amount of time before the Super Bowl is played and the BCS is still more than a month away. So staying with tradition, we all have a lot to be thankful for in the world of sports nationally and locally. Of course, the cynics would say and write that between the A’s, Sharks, Warriors, Raiders, 49ers and Giants there isn’t much to be thankful for on the local scene, but I disagree:
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Thirty years ago, the most violent and perhaps the best defensive player of all time made a commercial that brought tears to your eyes. “Mean” Joe Greene, then of the fabled Pittsburgh Steelers, starred in a Coca-Cola commercial in which he won a CLIO Award, for excellence in advertising. The scene was Joe in a tunnel of a football stadium following a hard-fought game. He is sweaty, dirty and thirsty.
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Kudos to all the major networks who paid tribute to our armed services this past week in a celebration of Veterans Day. Words don’t, and can’t, describe the bravery and pure resolve of our troops that have perished in meaningless war and risk their lives on a daily basis to protect us from the moronic evils that exist across the oceans. While watching TV or listening to the radio, tears came to my eyes more than once marveling at some of the heroics that have been achieved.
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Wow, Fox Sports did a great, great job this past week on its presentation of the World Series. The camera action was sensational, the Series itself was very competitive and the fan interest was at an all-time high. David Hill, the bossman at Fox, knows how to televise a big event like no other. Like many people in the sporting world, I don’t think I missed a minute of action.
The following are random thoughts on the overall broadcast by the Fox team:
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