I'm back for 2012. Two of my Sports classes have to blog, and to bond with them, I blog with them. So I'll be here a few times a week through May, at least.
Now then, the tops in sports media for 2012:
- Please, Chicago media, don't put the Cubs in the World Series yet just because Theo Epstein is in town. He got a little lucky in Boston. The '04 Yankees collapsed. And the NHL folded for the season. Prior to that, the last time there was no Stanley Cup finals was 86 years earlier, which was also the last time the Red Sox had won a World Series. Coincidence? Hmmm...
- Please, national baseball media, don't tell me the Kansas City Royals are AL Central contenders this year. You tried that last year and it didn't work. They're small market, they lose their best players to the big markets and they suck. Period.
- If sports reporters knew the games better than the coaches, managers and general managers they cover and write about, they'd be the coaches, managers and general managers instead of writing about them. Cover the game, don't second-guess the guys in charge (let them do it themselves, they will), and make sure the A-Rods of the world are exposed as the A-Holes that they are.
- I will miss Vin Scully after this year. Simply the best. Ever. Anywhere. A statue in his honor outside Dodger Stadium would never be an appropriate way to honor him. In fact, there isn't one. He had a vocabulary unparalleled and a voice that was the Sinatra of sportscasters.
- Please, Lord, let T.O. get injured just badly enough when he returns to play arena football that we don't have to hear about him the rest of the season or this year, for that matter.
- Instead of Te-bows, how about covering the Bronc-ohs.
- ESPN, I love those Make-A-Wish tandem stories you do about people overcoming adversity to be able to enjoy a moment in the sun with a favorite team or player. Very heartwarming, enjoyable and caring. Still doesn't cover up all the sores exposed in "ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun." You have a lot of work to do.
- Someone, anyone, tell me how Michigan got into a BCS game and Michigan State (conference runnerup who beat them) and Boise State (ranked twice as high in the BCS) did not. Must have been a gift for firing Rich Rodriguez.
- I'm boycotting the BCS title game. I thought they had a safeguard in place to prevent teams that didn't win their conferences, let alone their divisions in their conferences, from playing in the BCS title game after Nebraska did just that some years ago. BCS = Big Championship Scam
- Oh yeah, the Penn State thing, it's over. Let 'em play, let's see who they hire and cover the trial, that's a mandate. But don't forget to cover the healing and the rebuilding.
- I would be remiss in closing without a heartfelt farewell to those I lost in 2011: Clio, Carol Ruden, Gary Kruh, Ed Planer, Rose Economou and Pete Gent. A cuddler, a cousin, a closest-friend-ever, a chairperson, a colleague and a curmudgeon if there ever was one, respectively.
Howard Schlossberg is editor of the Journal of Sports Media, with his first edition due out this year. He's an associate professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago, where creativity and learning are embraced hand-in-hand. And he still writes sports for the Daily Herald in Chicago's northwest suburbs. http://journalsportsmedia.blogspot.com; www.colum.edu; http://www.facebook.com/pages/CCC-Journalism-Columbia-College-Chicago/115604591875424
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