By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
In truth I can’t really afford to be coming out of my “book nook” for any amount of time, but two ongoing stories in Boston sports media need some assessing and Shots realizes it’s our official duty to analyze both (and some bonus topics for the new year).
To spice things [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
With a week to digest the rather compelling WEEI.com news that Shots led the way on late last week, it’s clearly time for a Winners and Losers edition of “As the Boston Sports Media Market Turns”:
WINNER
Glenn Ordway
The biggest – in every sense – winner is none other than [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
News this week of a Sporting News re-launch and re-focus brought equal parts optimism and pessimism. As we’ve chronicled here before, when Shots was part of the final staff to ever produce SPORT magazine, there were constant rumors that Sporting News would either be our partner in business or our [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch

As if you weren’t well aware of the hot air that will be expelled in the coming days from the New Balance Building, here’s the only proof you need that the locals will be unbearable for the foreseeable future. It came before the Patriots’ stunning loss to the Giants in [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Scott’s Shots attempted to take some time off from our weekly duties serving you, the Shots Loyalist, but we wound up working more on the Gulf Coast than on the Atlantic Coast. But that’s okay – The Mike Adams Mystery Hour(s) made for good theater. And it also inspired Shots [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
• WEEI 850 AM’s Glenn The Big O Ordway, at least for the 10 minutes we could endure, just before 4 p.m. on Thursday, was trying to perpetuate the Theo Returns scenario – complete with a mysterious semi-cackle from Peter Gammons (in response to that probing investigator (hah!) Larry Johnson). [...]

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