March Media Madness 2015: Albom Region
By Ty Duffy
Our 2015 March Media Madness tournament began yesterday, with the Francesa region. Here is the second region.
The proposed media trade of the year. Fox Sports’ Katie Nolan makes YouTube videos. Her new show will be airing on FOX Sports 1 at 9:30pm on Sunday, with MLS as a lead in. Basically prime time. ESPN’s Ian Darke needs no introduction. Marty Smith is a reporter and sought-after.
Charles Barkley is a universally beloved commentator, outside the analytics community. Bill Raftery is a universally beloved color analyst, who will be calling the Final Four.
Math has revolutionized analysis of modern sport. Frank Caliendo makes ESPN personalities giggle as he imitates other ESPN personalities. He went from funny to overexposed (DID YOU HEAR ABOUT HIS NEW SHOW ON TBS?!) to sort of funny again.
Wright Thompson, appropriately named, crafts sentences that go down like whatever whiskey Wright Thompson would drink. But, are his abbreviated vignettes smoother than Matthew Stafford’s fiancée Kelly Hall’s three-point shot?
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio is a multi-platform media star, who can be a killjoy. FIFA’s staggering graft comes close but never quite ruins the world’s greatest sporting event.
Journalists cover venal scumbags for a living. Sports columnists wonder why their world fails to conform to the simple morality of a 1920s young boys novel. Legacies. What message do you have for the children, Tom? Lance Stephenson blew in LeBron’s ear. The Internet went to work.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is the sports media’s bête noire and more difficult to book than the POTUS. Darren Rovell is the sports Twitterverse’s bête noire. One must advance.
Ric Flair does mad Internet traffic due to wrestling nostalgia. Jim Ross announces things and had a long conversation with The Big Lead.