Although we tune in every Sunday and Monday night to watch an actual football game, another part of televised football is growing by leaps and bounds. This part of football on TV is called the scoop guys.
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There seems to be general agreement that the Obama White House's campaign against Fox News is actually directed at other news organizations -- to "get other journalists to think twice before following [Fox's] stories in their own coverage," according to an article in the Politico. Fox is beyond the pale, the White House is telling the press corps: You wouldn't want to have anything to do with that, would you?
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Thank you, Rush Limbaugh, thank you. You gave every football writer, broadcaster, SportsCenter host and the Internet a great amount of subject matter this past week. Now, we all know the self-proclaimed “smartest man on Earth” loves being in the national spotlight. Through his right-wing daily radio show, he has become the richest man in radio and arguably the most powerful.
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Raj Mathai, KNTV’s (Ch. 11) Mr. Everything, is doing his usual consistent, good job this year on the local NBC affiliate’s “Sports Sunday Primetime” show which airs every Sunday night following the network’s “Sunday Night Football.”
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A huge part of NFL coverage on Sundays is the pregame shows. I have written about them in the past, but we all must remember things change on a yearly basis. New personalities come into the mix and some analysts get better while others show some slippage.
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Some quotes and notes from around the NFL last week:
- From Boomer Esiason, the talented analyst from the CBS “NFL Today Show” on stoic Browns coach Eric Mangini: “This guy can take the fun out of a 10-year-old’s birthday party with Big Bird.” You are correct Boomer, Mangini needs to chill and realize players are humans, not robots.
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Ugh ... the bowl season goes on. Thank you to our readers. We had a wonderful response to our column last week about the bowl announcers and my opinions of all that. In fact, it was almost overwhelming. All good stuff in terms of what our readers really think. I will continue this week on the same theme. Again, there is an argument about the national championship, a playoff and too many bowl games that is legitimate on all sides.
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