CBS Sports reports that cunning linguist Shaquille O'Neal is is taking a broadcasting class at Syracuse University known as Sportscaster U, having arrived on Sunday and started school Monday at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
We at HHR say there is no doubt he has the potential to go down as the greatest Tweeting 7'1" cockeyed broadcaster in the history of television.
NBA champ-turned-broadcaster Cedric Maxwell tells our friends at WEEI a bizarre story of the time he was 8 years old and received a circumcision in lieu of an expected tonsillectomy.
Yesterday wrapped up the first season of the Chachi, Eric Bishoff, Wayne-from-The-Wonder-Years reality TV show masterpiece Confessions of a Teen Idol, in which "seven former teen idols [...lived] together under one roof, and Scott Baio will [took] on the challenge of remaking their careers."
In an episode leading up to the finale, effeminate acting coach Howard Fine had the boy go through several different techniques to master a casting call. HOWEVA, one such practice, as former abusive 90210 star Jamie Walters found out, turned out to be doing a Steven A. Smith impression.
See the impression at the 2:10 mark in all its glory.
Bill Walton always knows how to bring a touch of class to an NBA broadcast. Here he is, courtesy of our friends at Behind the Steel Curtain, rapping poetic about God-knows-what.
Few athletes were as well received in Philadelphia as Ritchie Ashburn.
Conversely, I personally loath Tim McCarver more than any other personality broadcasting today. While Joe Morgan and others garner a lot of guff, McCarver, more than any other announcer, has continually irked me for years .
McCarver, who is broadcasting today's Phillies/Mets game on Fox, as he likes to do, loves self-promotion. While he is a wealth of baseball knowledge, as he should be having been married to the sport for what seems like a half a century, his smugness offsets any interesting tidbit he might spew.
Needless to say, he has outstayed his welcome.
McCarver, of course, because he is broadcasting a Phillies/Mets game in Philly, has to try to appear himself to be a real "homeboy" and associate himself with the beloved Ashburn (who coincidentally played for both squads).
However, when Fox aired the clip of McCarver and Ashburn broadcasting the 1980 NLCS, I couldn't help but snicker at Whitey's not-so-subtle jab at McCarver:
"...you had a great career. Too bad you didn't realize it was over a couple years sooner."
Classic Ashburn.
Maybe McCarver should that heed and think about his broadcasting career in the same light.
