Professional and collegiate sports have been on twin tracks in terms of bad publicity, each besieged by former players who have sought legal remedies to what they see as abusive systems. "League of…
TV networks need to take the lead in nickname scrum
Although Billie Jean King is described as the first "sports figure" to be featured on "American Masters," her cultural influence obviously goes well beyond lobs and volleys, as this crisp 90-minute…
What’s a fair price to allow millions of fans to watch pro and college football without dwelling on the irrevocable harm it might be doing to the participants? Try $765 million. That’s the settlement…
The Parents Television Council actually stumbled onto something when it asked “Why Does MTV Get a Pass?” in the context of Miley Cyrus’ by-now-legendarily scandalous performance at the Video Music…
When Daily Variety covered the March on Washington, the banner headline the day after the historic civil rights event read, “March Tramples on D.C. Boxoffice; Showfolk Figure in Demonstration.” The…
ESPN has exited a long-running investigation into the response of the National Football League to various head injuries suffered over the years by its players that the sports-cable network was…
Preseason NFL action on NBC dominated Sunday’s ratings action, which also included steady numbers for CBS’ “Big Brother” in its first airing since Time Warner pulled the network’s signal in about 3…
A day after the first rehearsal for his new ESPN2 latenight program “Olbermann,” Keith Olbermann reiterated that lessons learned from his tumultuous past would help keep him ruddered on his new…
Statistician Nate Silver is heading from The New York Times to ESPN, and will take his FiveThirtyEight franchise with him. Silver, a number-cruncher who rose to fame by projecting the 2008 and 2012…
