Good morning, all and happy Friday!
Do you watch sports? If you read this newsletter you do. Are you upset with how sports content is being fragmented onto one app after another? The FCC wants your input. I break it down in the video commentary.
Here are some other thoughts on the last Friday in February:
New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton, who missed half of last season with aching elbows, acknowledges he is still in pain. He says he has severe pain opening a bag of potato chips. Wrote one person on X: He needs to switch to Pringles! Ouch!
It will be a shocker if the Chicago Bears do not move to Indiana. The Indiana senate approved the state House of Representative plan to help finance a new domed stadium for the Bears in the northwest corner of Indiana. The bill was approved by a 45-4 vote on Thursday with bipartisan support and came just days after the House voted 95-4 to approve financing. Gov. Mike Braun did not waste any time signing the bill into law, while quickly reminding neighboring Illinois residents, “They (the Bears) came to us. We didn’t try to lure them.” The Bears are done in Chicago and somewhere Mayor Richard Daley is rolling over in his grave.
That was some hurting the UConn men’s basketball team put on St. John’s Wednesday night. The final was 72-40. The same two schools are poised to meet in the Big East tournament in a couple of weeks. My hunch is UConn will repeat its performance. Yes, the Red Storm defeated the Huskies at the Garden in their first meeting, but UConn more than made up for it in downtown Hartford. This is a different team than the one, which lost to St. John’s in New York, by evidence of Wednesday night’s dominant performance.
All the media pundits are making a big deal out of NBC’s supposed revamp of “Football Night in America.” Apparently Tony Dungy is among those on the way out. All things change, especially in the broadcast world. When the suits say there will be changes, take it from me, there will be changes, no matter how popular a program may be.
I am old enough to remember any story out of spring training was welcome news this time of year, With today’s technology and the dominance of social media, stories out of spring training are more than one could have ever imagined back in the day. Now the most obscure baseball minutiae is treated like headline news. Spring training games are covered like they are the seventh game of the World Series. All of this is done in an effort to generate clicks. We live in a different world.
And on that note, that is going to do it for today’s newsletter. Remember to contact the FCC, if you are so inclined. Here is the link. Have a fantastic Friday!
DAN
