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Columns - Jim Williams
Triumph and tragedy sums up NBC’s Derby coverage
- For NBC the final 30 minutes of coverage of Kentucky Derby was a nightmare and a delicate balancing act that came off badly. They stuck to the script, and in so doing, mishandled the story of the year thus far in sports.
- For NBC the final 30 minutes of coverage of Kentucky Derby was a nightmare and a delicate balancing act that came off badly. They stuck to the script, and in so doing, mishandled the story of the year thus far in sports.
Fans seem to be willing to forget NBA, MLB scandals
- All I heard during the baseball offseason — including the Congressional hearings in February — was how steroids were going to bring down baseball. Meanwhile the NBA had the referee Tim Donaghy’s betting scandal — another disgrace that would rock the very core of the league.
‘Ice Man’ ready for Caps vs. Flyers
- Steve Kolbe has been the radio voice of the Capitals for 11 years now and this just might be his most exciting season. He grew up in Baltimore playing hockey in outdoors in city parks on the cities east side or some times at the old “Ice bubble” outside Memorial Stadium and he knows that long before the Caps played in the Southeast Division they used to be bitter rivals with the Flyers.
For the Nats, it’s one opener down another to go
- After a prime time debut Sunday night at Nationals Park with President George Bush throwing out the first pitch, a full house and a world wide audience on a host of networks — ESPN, ESPN Desportes, MLB.COM and MLB International — it is now time for yet another opener for the Nationals in less than 24 hours.
Hear the voices of the Madness
- CBS Sports lead analyst Billy Packer is broadcasting his 34th NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. He and partner Jim Nantz will be calling the action on both the UMBC-Georgetown game as well as the Mount St. Mary’s — North Carolina game from Raleigh.
Packer says UMBC upset could happen
- Billy Packer, lead analyst for CBS Sports, is broadcasting his 34th NCAA Tournament. He and partner Jim Nantz will be calling today’s action for both the UMBC-Georgetown game and the Mount St. Mary’s-North Carolina contest from Raleigh, N.C.
Is Patterson on the block?
- The Nationals are exploring trade options for starting pitcher John Patterson, ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips told The Examiner on Wednesday.
- The Nationals are exploring trade options for starting pitcher John Patterson, ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips told The Examiner on Wednesday.
Some Palm reading for the NCAA Tournament
- Jerry Palm is a nationally known college basketball analyst for his ability to successfully predict which 65 teams will be invited to the NCAA Tournament. Palm, who works for CBS Sports, has been following college basketball for nearly two decades. Palm, who is regarded as an expert in analyzing the Ratings Percentage Index — a formula predicated on wins and losses that is used to rank all 341 Division I teams — is the owner, publisher and editor of CollegeRPI.com and CollegeBCS.com.
Broadcaster Carpenter excited about the Nats season
- Nationals TV play-by-play announcer Bob Carpenter had a great birthday on Tuesday while he and his MASN crewmates, Don Sutton and Debbi Taylor, broadcasted the Nats’ first spring telecast of the season.
Billick claims reason for firing still a mystery
- Former Ravens coach Brian Billick refused to criticize any members of the team who fired him during a three-hour radio interview on Monday, but heaped plenty of praise on the squad’s key decision makers.
FOX, NFL Network are big winners
- Super Bowl XLII was the most watched Super Bowl in U.S. TV history (97.5 million viewers) and for once the game was far better than the commercials. The Giants’ 17-14 upset of the Patriots made for great viewing and, due to the last minute heroics by both Tom Brady and Eli Manning, most people watched the game until the very end — which sealed the ratings for FOX.
An NHL New Year’s Day tradition?
- We all know that New Year’s Day has been college football’s biggest day. Bowl games from morning till midnight. But NBC and their partners at the NHL think that they just might have something that might pull you away from college football at least for a while.
Who’s the city’s best host?
- It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.