By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Watch the following clip get a taste for just how incongruous and out of place it was to have Bob Costas introduce John Mellencamp at Saturday’s Farm Aid music extravaganza in Mansfield.

Was that odd or what? And Costas doesn’t deliver on his 10-second promise, instead taking 30 uncomfortable seconds to [...]


The Lowest Low for Lobel

By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Bob Lobel was treated to the cushiest of goodbyes upon his departure from WBZ-TV/CBS4 in the Spring. Steve Buckley praised him. Dan Shaughnessy just about sculpted a bronze statue of the guy to place next to Red. And Joe Fitzgerald did what Joe Fitzgerald does: He immortalized a mere [...]


By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Okay, so now what?
No, really. What the heck do we do now?
Too early for the Red Sox. Too tired of the Patriots. Too soon for the Olympics, too.
The inevitable comedown after these things - these wonderful, magnificent journeys through late nights and stirring comebacks - is almost too much to [...]


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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