By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Some people sleep out for concert tickets. Others wait for XBox video games to be released. A few need to be the first to see a new release in movie theaters.
As a media critic in the Internet Age, I prefer to wait up late night for the arrival of things […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
While we slowly and skeptically get past the tongue-in-cheek feel of the Boston Herald’s “Sorry, Pats” headline from Wednesday and as we wait for the Friday-promised explanation from ‘Comments-off’ writer John Tomase, let’s take a little look at some of the factors that have brought us to this peculiar spot […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story now (Monday night, 9:00 p.m. EST) contains a response from Bill Simmons regarding the Bob Ryan comments on Sunday’s “Sports Final” on CBS4 in Boston.
It also should be noted that this entry is setting visitor records to this page, which we attribute to both the […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
• We got Wally ! But we lost Ricky? What happens to the Get Buckets Brigade? ESPN.com was crediting the story to the Herald and TNT. The AP (in the story that Boston.com went with) gave credit to the Herald’s website as well. Looks like Steve Bullet […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
SPECIAL SUNDAY BONUS POSTING!
Scott’s Shots is proud to provide a free (as always) reader service and urges you to check out Warren St. John’s Sunday New York Times profile of the former Boston Sports Guy, Bill Simmons.
The lone initial judgment Shots will pass, is this: Simmons allowed good, […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
In addition to the Scott’s Shots Self-Ombuds piece below, please be sure to check out David Scott’s PodShots for a quick and breezy podcast that looks at: an unforgivable sin performed by the Patriots organization on Tedy Bruschi and why the Globe gave so much space to Mrs. Idiot, MichelleMagnanDamon.
As […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Something a bit different this week as we try and get a little insight into one of the decade’s most important sports (and yes, pop culture) writers, Bill Simmons of ESPN.com.
Readers of this space know Shots has not held back over the past year for what I perceived […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
• In the interest of Fairness in Journalism Criticism, it’s time for Scott’s Shots to once again offer up our thoughts on running the toy department, this time to the city’s newest sports chief.
That means my “Dear Sully” letter of 13 months ago is now becoming a Dear Hank (Hryniewicz) missive. […]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
Some 23-odd Hours After the City of Champions First Pitch
• We’re not ones to brag, but we too executed an almost flawless Ring Day ’05. Kilroy’s by noon, sausage by two and Bruschi by three. Postgame didn’t go quite as smoothly, if only because the sausage was so foreign to our […]

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By David Nomar Scott
Boston Nomar Sports Media
No, No, Nomah
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Take your pick, friends. What a weekend! I mean, seriously. Mike Tyson gets knocked out by a chump from England, the Hull beach gets A1 Globe treatment to prove sardines can be people too and Alice Cooper blows the tent off the joint […]

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