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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
AFTER THREE HOURS of watching the Matt Hasselbeck-less Seahawks push the San Diego Chargers to the brink Monday, Mike Tirico is not so convinced the Seahawks' window of opportunity for reaching the Super Bowl is closing.The ESPN "Monday Night Football" play-by-play man is entering his third season as the network's No. 1 football announcer and second year with the team of Tony Kornheiser and...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
... it means is more Ron Jaworski. Whether that means less of (or less focus on) Mike Tirico or Tony Kornheiser is not exactly clear. What is clear is “Jaws” will be the great white shark in the “Monday Night” booth. “We are going to make him the new Madden,” Rothman declared, referring to NBC’s popular lead game analyst, John Madden.What it means is a telecast aimed more at an avid football...
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The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... big-city columnist to run screaming from newspapers: * JA Adande, LA Times (buyout) * Tony Kornheiser , Washington Post (buyout) * Dan LeBatard, Miami Herald (sabbatical) * Selena Roberts, New York Times (Sports Illustrated) And that’s just the short list of major columnists whose names you’d recognize because they’ve done national TV work; it doesn’t begin to account for the two dozen (at...
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Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
(Washington skipper Manny Acta shows great patience with broadcaster Charlie Slowes’ suggestion that playing Lasting Milledge’s mixtape diss of Billy Wagner might boost ratings) Tony Kornheiser’s least favorite Washington Post colleague Paul Farhi reports the Nationals radio broadcasts are being heard by fewer persons than those paying to attend Nats games. That there’s more than a [...]
