Looking back on my days as a student at Fordham University and WFUV, I remember one of the many lessons given to me by Marty Glickman. Without remembering the direct quote, I can only paraphrase, but essentially he told me that once we believed to be at the stage in our craft where we could …
Category: broadcasting
A Perfect Way to Express My School Pride
Something amazing happened last night in Oakland, and it involved the New York Yankees. As an unabashed New York Mets fan (despite their current freefall I will always bleed orange and blue, and black on Friday’s), typing these words would be followed by a wave of nausea, followed by a dollop of vomit at the …
Updated for 2018-19! Hockey Broadcast Scoresheets
I made some small tweaks to the hockey scoresheet (generic) that I use. Feel free to download and use! If you do, I’d appreciate a shout out on Twitter @philgpbp – thanks! 2018-19 Hockey Sheets (PDF) Follow @philgpbp
Deitsch Tweet Makes Me Wonder – ‘Why do we work in play-by-play’?
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch recently tweeted a link to a report on Poynter.org that referenced the starting average salary for a Journalism School Graduate was a shade under 41k per year. Here’s the tweet in question: Poynter's @abeaujon has an update on the ‘average’ journalism grad’s salary:http://t.co/X77IL12o — Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) January 30, 2013 It …
Don’t be afraid to exit your ‘comfort zone’
One of the things that I noticed over the years working in pro hockey is that players often have a meticulous routine to their lives, especially on game day. Not unlike a military boot camp, a pro hockey player has a pretty standard routine on a game day, and some players are more particular than …