Tag Archives: ESPN

It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Howard Bryant Edition)

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has met author/ESPN senior writer/former Boston Herald columnist Howard Bryant on several occasions, and he always struck us as a decent, thoughtful, accomplished journalist. So it was distressing to learn of his arrest this past weekend for … Continue reading →

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Class Acts o’ the Day (Mo & Rafa Edition)

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Let’s start with Rafael Nadal, winner of the Gentleman’s Final at Wimbledon – and the Gentleman’s Anything everywhere else. How classy is Nadal? He absolutely manhandled Tomas Berdych, but afterward made the match sound like some Strawberries-and-Cream Smackdown. To paraphrase: … Continue reading →

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Dropping Chevy Is Deuced Foolish

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

So, the New York Times reports, the geniuses at GM have decided that a Chevrolet is no longer a Chevy: On Tuesday, G.M. sent a memo to Chevrolet employees at its Detroit headquarters, promoting the importance of “consistency” for the … Continue reading →

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MyCrawl

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Consumer technology these days is the Incredible Ego Machine. Exhibit I: Sony Bets on a Countertop View of the Web From the WSJ review by Katherine Boehret: This week, I tested a product that represents Sony’s attempt to wade into … Continue reading →

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CBS=Can’t Be Serious

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

So CBS Sports decided it needed to offload its onerous (read: $6 billion) March Madness® madness. Wednesday New York Times headline: CBS Considered Paying ESPN to Take Tourney Lede: An extraordinary idea was broached last fall when CBS was trying … Continue reading →

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