ESPN’s Latest Layoffs Continue the Slow Death of Sports Media’s Middle Class
"After 30 years in sports media, the most valuable lesson I've learned is also the simplest. The audience falls in love with people. The business falls in love with numbers, and the numbers always win."
The FIFA World Cup Experience Teaches Lessons American Sports Networks Can Learn From
"The World Cup also reminded us that presentation matters. Every knockout match felt enormous because television treated it that way. The music. The entrances. The crowd. The anticipation. Nobody needs to convince viewers Spain versus Argentina matters. The broadcast simply gets out of the way and lets the occasion breathe."
Why Fans Keep Judging the MLB All-Star Game Broadcast Wrong
The World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, and the Stanley Cup Finals are where every pitch, possession, and decision carry enormous weight. That's where players become legends, and fan bases either celebrate forever or spend the next decade asking what went wrong. The All-Star Game isn't trying to be any of that. It's baseball's family reunion.
The NBA Draft Has Become A Television Mess
"The problem is the NBA wants an NFL-sized television event without creating an NFL-sized television format."
Soccer Is No Longer An Outsider To American Sports Culture
"Every four years, somebody asks if this is finally soccer’s breakthrough moment. At some point, we have to stop asking whether soccer is arriving and start recognizing that it already has."