My wife walked through our living room after making herself a bowl of yogurt and granola Saturday night, and upon seeing me watch the 6-Man Ladder Match from NXT TakeOver: New Orleans, offered an astute observation. "I've never seen you watch so much wrestling." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLn_ghXfkbo Now, I wouldn't say I am a bigger wrestling fan…
On the first official day of March Madness in the era of streaming, we as basketball fans are spoiled with a plethora of options. If you are diligent enough, there is a way to watch every game without ponying up for an expensive On Demand package. The days of March Madness on Demand are relatively…
Another NCAA Tournament begins tomorrow, marking Year 8 of the marriage between CBS and the Turner Broadcasting family. It's a partnership that sparks some entirely justified lamentations, like the insistence on screwing with the Selection Show formula, and the continued use of NBA on TNT talent like Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley, who would be…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The dream of the Big 12 Conference placing 90 percent of its teams in the NCAA Tournament quite likely died during Thursday’s quarterfinals of the conference tournament. Three teams on the bubble lost when they needed to win. Oklahoma State couldn’t beat top-seeded Kansas for a third time, Baylor couldn’t prevent…
Confused? Me too. College Basketball Stock Watch has been around for a few years, at several different outlets, sometimes in relatively short stages of hibernation. Here we now are, at Stock Watch's fourth new home since August. We're going to get to all of that in a second. Important note laced with caveats: Remember that this…
Jay Bilas is a former Duke player and assistant coach. He’s also a lawyer, which means there are three reasons to strongly dislike him. The ESPN college basketball analyst often has an “of course I’m right” smugness when weighing in on hoops issues. But you’ve gotta love a talking head who is outspoken when calling…
A Virginia Beach high schooler took to Twitter this Valentines Day eve to ask Canadian Olympic figure skater Gabrielle Daleman if she would attend his prom in exchange for hitting a certain number of retweets. Now, these stories surface with some regularity -- today marks the one-year anniversary of tennis pro Genie Bouchard joining a…
CBS plans to reboot Murphy Brown, a popular television series that began its initial run 30 years ago and ended 20 years ago. This decision follows NBC relaunching Will & Grace, Netflix picking up the misadventures of the Tanners on Fuller House, the Disney Channel introducing Girl Meets World and ABC planning a Roseanne reboot…
After just one episode, ESPN cancelled Barstool Van Talk, thus ending a controversial and short run in which Barstool Sports and ESPN collaborated to try to capitalize on the success and popularity of the acclaimed Pardon My Take podcast. Barstool Van Talk's short run brought up the question: Which awful shows lasted longer? Friend…
Pro wrestling has long been a form of entertainment borrowing from life. Increasingly, however, life seems to borrow from pro wrestling. Consider this: The current President of the United States is a WWE Hall of Fame inductee who hosted two of the first five Wrestlemanias and managed a performer at a third. The head of…
Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill may not enjoy professional wrestling -- that seems abundantly clear from a tweet he fired off Sunday evening. https://twitter.com/youngfollowill/status/861382517219373057 The irony is twofold: Firstly, Kings of Leon sounds like the kind of the 2000s rock band that would provide the opening theme music for RAW. Secondly, Followill unintentionally mastered…
Northeast Conference director of communications and social media, Ralph Ventre, refers to the burgeoning frontier of online platforms as "the great equalizer." "It allows a league like the Northeast Conference to get its message out just as effectively as the SEC would," Ventre said. Thursday's NEC Social Media Day -- which begins at 11 a.m.…
Bovada released updated Heisman odds Thursday. These will not impact the illustrious CFB Huddle Heisman Top 10 projection, but they might save the struggling Latvian economy. Despite what some sports media outlets are likely to tell you about these Heisman odds, which have LSU running back Leonard Fournette at a 9/2 favorite, they are not…
Who's Now: two words that send a chill up the spine of many a sports fan. Summertime brings with it a lull in the sports calendar, but the 24/7 sports #content machine does not relent with the conclusion of the NBA Finals. As the flagship of the sports media fleet, ESPN has attempted various gimmicks…
Evolution is inevitable in any business, and is often fueled by consumer demand. Sports media is no different. Those in the industry have different motivations behind their work. For some the medium is an art form or a trade they hold very dear to their hearts, which meets an unavoidable intersection with commerce. Lately, the…
