Today’s Sunday News column, plus a couple additions observations at the bottom:
The Phillies’ Raul Ibanez has 21 home runs through Friday, among overall offensive numbers that, if the season ended today, would make him a serious candidate for National League MVP.
He’s 37, and has never hit more than 33 homers in a season, and more […]
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Ibanezgate
June 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: performance-enhancing drugs · column archive · sportswriting · dumbness · Phillies · media · baseball
yes, more Penn State stuff…
April 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Penn State is apparently going to be sanctioned by the Rose Bowl for failing to meet contracual agreements regarding media obligations.
From a statement issued by the bowl:
There were two non-compliance matters. One involved the failure to conduct a pre-game interview with the Game Broadcaster, as required by contract. The other involved the failure to open […]
Tags: Dubya · writers · Grandaddy of em all · Rose Bowl · Joe Pa · sportswriting · Penn State · media · dumbness · college football · football
FJM is no more
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments
As the lack of consistent activity on Billy Paultz Revisited may suggest, maintaining a blog can be a pain in the ass. Especially if you have a life, and double-especially if you work, and triple-especially if the work is primarily writing of a non-blog variety.
Anyway, the web lost a wondrous presence to such realities last week when Fire Joe Morgan ceased […]
Tags: writers · sportswriting · dumbness · media · baseball
The buzz around Buzz
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Here’s my column in the May 11 Sunday News, sort of relevant here because it’s about “new media,” blogs and etc. I should probably do more of this kind of thing. In fact, I will. Promise….
Old, new media can coexist
Question: I’m a fiftyish white male sportswriter, so how come I’m not as angry […]
Tags: sabermetrics · sportswriting · TV · media · baseball
Office: April: Saturday
April 5th, 2008 · No Comments
The headline to this post refers to an amazing 1955 Sports Illustrated piece about the Kentucky Derby by some Faulkner dude who could write a little.
It also refers to the fact that unlike most of America, I have worked Saturdays for my entire adult life. This not only doesn’t bother me, it’s an enormous relief. […]
Tags: college basketball · sportswriting · TV
The weekend that was
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Occasionally someone asks who I think I’m writing for, what I consider my audience to be. OK, very occasionally, but it has happened. The answer is a person who’s interested in sport for its own sake, not because they went to Penn State or their nephew plays for McCaskey, a person who wants to know, honestly, what the […]
Tags: college basketball · The Low Post · sportswriting · college hoops · NBA · basketball
Assorted stuff
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments
The Sixers just got their first win of 2008, and yeah it was against dysfunctional, T-Mac-less Houston, but still. And now - what are the odds? - I’m watching the transcendent, “I’m into Nuggets y’all, I’m into Nuggets y’all..”
Now if they’d won at Denver, that would have been perfect. Think about it.
In other news…
*The question […]
Tags: fast food · Sixers · TO · hall of fame · playoffs · sportswriting · NFL · football · NBA · dumbness · baseball
New Hampshire, cont.
January 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Right after I shut down the computer last night, MSNBC went to a panel including Joe Scarborough, who said people shouldn’t be critical of the punditocracy getting the Hillary thing so wrong because it was like sportswriters predicting the Yankees would beat the Red Sox (in the 2004 ALCS) after having a 3-0 lead.
Ugh. This […]
Tags: Hillary · sportswriting · politics · TV · dumbness · media
holiday post-mortem
January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
BPR is back after a holiday vacation with considerable blog stored in its hump…
Alamo Bowl: Please understand that This Space is not a fan of Anthony Morelli. He was not a good major-college quarterback, and wasn’t close to what Joe Paterno and his staff portrayed him to be.
His performance in San Antonio included a lot […]
Tags: lunacy · sportswriting · Joe Pa · college football · TV · Penn State · media · football
In the wake of the news
December 13th, 2007 · No Comments
The Mitchell Report on steroids, the latest major salvo in baseball’s longstanding public-relations war against itself, will be made public about 12 hours from now.
Journalists who’ve seen the report or talked to people who have say upwards of 100 players will be named as abusers of performance-enhancing substances. Mitchell had no subpeona power, and the report […]
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