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Jim Rome bravely broke the news to his TV viewers and radio listeners about 20 minutes into Monday’s episode.

“The late, great Thomas Earl Petty was fond of saying, ‘The waiting is the hardest part’,” But today the wait is officially over. Because today the results for the National Radio Hall of Fame vote are in. We first started talking about this six weeks ago when I announced at that time I was honored and humbled to be nominated for the Hall of Fame. So we ramped up. In fact, we all ramped up together. We spread the word together. We campaigned together. We voted together. We went to battle together. And then we waited for the results together.”

At this point, the lead is all but buried, but you can see where this is going.

“So right now, today, together, we take a dignified loss. And we do so together. It did not happen, clones. We fought hard. We gave it everything we had. There simply is nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to not hold up your head about. I saw the effort put forth. I saw how much you all wanted it for me and the program. You could not have done any more.”

Apparently, they could have, but …

Instead, in the awkwardly named category of  Spoken Word Format On-Air Personality,” Westwood One syndicated conservative talker Mark Levine came out as the winner. Joe Madison of SiriusXM and George Norry of Coast to Coast AM were also runners up.

A better Tom Petty reference at this point should be: Don’t do me like that.

A story on this National Radio Hall of Fame website notes that a “record-breaking half million-plus votes” were cast in the two public-elected categories. In another story, it notes there was “huge public campaign that Levin ran and his supporters in conservative circles.”

We gotta be amplified on this one: Rome was in the wrong category at the wrong time.

Incredible. Make that, ridiculous. Continue reading “Sports media notes version 06.27.18: Rome isn’t Radio Hall worthy, but Mike & Mike are? It’s categorically tone deaf” →

Any story right now that includes “LeBron James” and “Lakers” in it produces the click-bait you’d expect. Especially when they resort to picking out all the billboards around L.A. that seem to believe they can talk something into existence. The NBA’s free-agent period opens Saturday at 9 p.m., which is when Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka are on the clock.
James’ latest “decision” is expected come via his own media platform, Uninterrupted, after he did so via an ESPN TV special (2010) and then a Sports Illustrated story (2014). ESPN’s Brian Windhorst believes this announcement will come before July 4; others insist it will be July 6. Read it and weep.

Continue reading “06.25.18: Five things you should plan for the week ahead based on unscientific evidence of guaranteed importance” →

If the tweet had not come from George Dohrman, the former Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize award-winning sports reporter, current writer and editor for The Athletic, and author of the new book, “Superfans: Into the Heart and Obsessive Sports Fandom,” we doubt we’d even give it a second thought:

The “boycott Fox” movement could just as easy be a social media news cycle flash mob, or it could cool off based on the president’s actions taken Wednesday. Hollywood producer Judd Apatow was advocating a boycott of all that is Fox. “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah chimed in as well.
But the key sentence from where we sit and watch and listen and debate was the last almost throw-away line by the original tweet: “Coverage is better on @telemundo anyway,” says the guy up in Portland with fewer than 2,000 followers.
We can buy into that more than any sort of boycott, even with a rebellious streak that we show now and then.
So, yeah, we see no fake news in that opinion. Continue reading “Sports media notes 06.20.18: A Fox World Cup boycott? Boy, that’s saying something” →