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  1. I haven't posted here in a long while, but I really like the new look that the Clippers are coming with. I'm okay with the primary logo, but I'm happy that the scripted wordmarks are back, and they actually look better than the older scripted wordmark from the Sterling era. The one thing that I would change on the color uniforms is adding a thin outline around "Clippers" and "Los Angeles" to make it show more. Beyond that, I like the rebranding...it sure as hell is better than the soon-to-be former branding. 8/10, if I were to give a grade.
  2. I just can't see how Sarver would be allowed back in the NBA, even if he does the one-year suspension. I'm sorry, but a $10 million fine (for a man worth at least $850 million), a year suspension, and sensitivity training isn't punishment enough--it's a classic, rich people "slap on the wrist" type of punishment. Outside of Devin Booker becoming a superstar-level player and Chris Paul bringing his services to downtown Phoenix in the last few years, Sarver has been a terrible owner for the Suns for the vast majority of his tenure in charge. He's accused of the same transgressions that rightfully got Donald Sterling booted the hell out of the Association, with the only difference was that Sterling (thanks to one of his mistresses) got caught running his mouth about Magic Johnson and not wanting her to bring Black people to his games (among other things said). Let's not forget that Sterling did far more egregious :censored: that David Stern turned a blind eye to for 30 years, but it was an incoming commissioner with three months on the job, a lady of the evening, and ultimately his estranged wife that finally brought Donald Tokowitz down. LOL. I believe the NBA would prefer to quietly have the other partners buy-out Sarver's share (which only is 35 percent), so as to minimize the PR hell the team is already suffering with. Phoenix Magazine has an article for earlier this year that details Sarver's behavior as Suns owner, and how one of the minority owners (Jahm Najafi, the second-largest shareholder in the team) wants to a play to buy-out Sarver. The article came out a couple days after the initial ESPN report about the allegations involving Sarver. Given that Sarver reportedly doesn't have a lot of allies amongst the other owners, and just like with Sterling, the NBA Players Association (whose ex-president plays for the Suns, but still has some pull) may be the real deciding factor in whether Sarver goes.
  3. I can't see leaving the Angels leaving Southern California, and in particular the Los Angeles/Orange Counties media market. Maybe the next potential owner can re-negotiate a legit (i.e. not "greasing the palms") stadium deal with the city of Anaheim, or if all else fails there, Long Beach has been an option that was mentioned as recent as a few months ago. There's an article in yesterday's Long Beach Press-Telegram that reiterated what their mayor said back in May, right after the stadium sale with Anaheim broke down, that he and the city council would be re-open to negotiate a stadium deal there. However, the writers in the article stated that the Angels could even be years away from getting a new owner, leaving to the idea that a potential new owner could still keep the team in Anaheim. After this season, the Angels still have six years left with their lease with Angel Stadium, with the option to extend the lease to 2038--which by then, the current stadium would be 72 years old.
  4. Banc of California Stadium, looking northeast towards the Downtown Los Angeles skyline; the Exposition Park museums and the USC campus are in the left side, and off-picture the Coliseum is just 500 or so feet to the west (left).
  5. Purely for the entertainment value...I've learned over time that pundits like Stephen A. and Skip will simply say things just for effect, even if the points are valid. Trust me, it took me a long time to warm up to both, and I will change the channel if either one (and Max Kellerman whenever he goes on his long-ass diatribes) gets too out of hand. I didn't start watching First Take until the last year or so that Stephen A. & Skip were together, and Cari Champion was the moderator. I don't agree with everything either one says (and throw in Kellerman and Shannon Sharpe for that matter), and certainly (just as an example) what Skip said last year regarding Dak Prescott was absolutely deplorable. However, whenever they talk about race issues, especially with what's been going on in our communities, they're all on the same page on that accord. I felt the same way as you regarding Colin Cowherd, especially going back to his ESPN days, but I've come around on him since he's been at Fox Sports...I think Joy Taylor has been an excellent addition to his show, as she knows her stuff and will challenge him on his weird theories/analogies.
  6. In the mornings, I'll usually flip back and forth between First Take and Skip & Shannon, and that depends on the topic at hand (between the two shows, it's nothing but NBA and NFL talk, and very rarely delve into other sports). Hell, since the pandemic, the days I work from home, my daytime viewing has largely consisted of those two, Colin Cowherd (& Joy Taylor), newscasts, and old sitcoms reruns between Antenna TV, Logo, Decades, and whatever else is on some of the Viacom channels (BET, MTV2, and VH1). Beyond that, I don't watch much ESPN or FS1 outside of certain live events...I more or less tapped out on Around the Horn and PTI awhile ago, and they were my two favorite shows on ESPN.
  7. Plenty of changes around the SportsCenter desks--in Bristol, Los Angeles, and soon-to-be in Washington, D.C. in the coming days (and months)... Firstly, Cari Champion (who was doing the weekday Noon ET SportsCenters with David Lloyd) is leaving ESPN at the end of the month... https://www.si.com/tech-media/2020/01/10/cari-champion-leaving-espn-sportscenter-first-take-sportsnation As a result of that, Matt Barrie and Elle Duncan will takeover the weekday noon slot (Mondays-Thursdays), as well as the Sunday 9am ET shows, while Lloyd moves to early-mornings, splitting days with Hannah Storm (Mondays-Wednesdays) and Antonietta Collins (Thursdays). He and Collins will also do the Tuesday and Wednesday early-morning shows, and Storm and Jay Harris will do the Friday Noon shows, in addition to anchoring the weekend morning editions. Thursday-Saturday early-mornings will be anchored by Nicole Briscoe and Randy Scott. The noon show will also be 90 minutes every weekday, followed by NFL Live at 1:30pm ET as usual. The evening and late-night editions will remain as is, but with one slight change--Scott Van Pelt will be moving his SportsCenter show to his native Washington, D.C., but not until this summer (sometime in August). He'll use the PTI studio at ABC News' Washington bureau, although some functions will still take place in Bristol.
  8. It did at least here in Los Angeles (his hometown), where he hasn't been heard locally since he switched syndicators. The station that was the local "flagship" station of CBS Sports Radio, KFWB, went Bollywood music in 2016 after trying local sports talk for two years, and before that was a general talk/news station (and was all-news for decades). When it was "The Beast 980", the only things they had going for it was the Clippers and Galaxy radio broadcasts, and maybe Rome...the rest of the on-air talent were either old local sports media fogies (Fred Roggin, Jeanne Zelasko, Bill Plaschke) that still want to reminisce about the good ol' days of the Showtime Lakers and the Lasorda-era Dodgers, or nobodies from out-of-town that know little-to-nothing about the local sports scene. I can't speak for KLAC, KSPN or KLAA, I haven't listened to either one of the three in a long time as well...other than KLAC carrying Cowherd's radio/TV simulcast and the Petros (Papadakis)-Money (Matt Smith) show, I couldn't tell you what else on that station, and as a Clipper fan, I've avoided KSPN for years, ever since they took over the radio rights to the Lakers. I tried KLAA in the beginning as well, especially Roger Lodge's show (yes, he of "Blind Date" fame), and once his original co-host got fired, Lodge's sports knowledge, or lack thereof, was greatly exposed. He must have pictures on Arte Moreno or something, because Lodge is a terrible sports talk host. Hell, I can remember him for filling-in for Rome on his radio show several times before the KLAA gig came about...not much different there either. Other than those mid-mornings if I'm home from work, and Colin Cowherd isn't on TV that day, I'll tune in to Rome for a few minutes, and then find something else to watch. I haven't personally listened to his radio show in any length in years, and haven't listened to an entire episode in nearly 15 years.
  9. Sad news from the NBA world... Long-time Cavaliers and Pistons TV play-by-play announcer Fred McLeod died last night, at the age of 67. McLeod's most recent work was calling this summer's Lions preseason telecasts. He had served as the Cavs' TV voice since 2006, and before that spent 22 years calling Detroit Pistons cable telecasts on PASS, and then on Fox Sports Detroit when the latter launched in 1997. He also worked as a sportscaster at Cleveland's Channel 8 (then WJKW) in the late '70s, as a weekend sports anchor, and called Cavs and Indians games for that station until both moved to then-indie WUAB in 1980. In his Detroit years, he was also a sportscaster at WJBK and WDIV-TV. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/sport/fred-mcleod-obit-nba-trnd/index.html LeBron shared his sentiments today...
  10. You also had situations where teams (not just in MLB either) had three sets of broadcast teams--radio, over-the-air TV, and cable TV. The Tigers were a prime example in the 80s and 90s--Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey on radio, George Kell and Al Kaline on the WDIV/Tigers TV network, and another set of broadcasters on PASS. The Mets did for awhile as well in the '90s and early 2000s--Gary Throne and Ralph Kiner did over-the-air TV (WWOR, and then the move to WPIX in '99), Howie Rose on cable, and Bob Murphy and Gary Cohen on radio. When SNY was created in 2006, Cohen became the play-by-play man for all local Mets telecasts, although he still will occasionally fill-in on radio. The Yankees, from the early 80s until YES' creation, also had separate over-the-air and cable play-by-play announcers; when Mel Allen returned to the Yankees in 1982, he called five seasons of games on the old SportsChannel New York (which they shared with the Mets until MSG picked up the Yankees in '89), while the Scooter was the #1 play-by-play on WPIX, but also served as a back-up to Allen on SCNY telecasts.
  11. The Clippers, probably as expected, promoted radio voice Brian Sieman to TV starting next season, while Noah Eagle (Ian's son) becomes the team's radio play-by-play man. https://thebiglead.com/2019/07/16/brian-sieman-promoted-to-clippers-tv-play-by-play-noah-eagle-leading-candidate-for-radio/
  12. Allen's been on a bit of a spending spree in recent years, including buying NBCUniversal's share of The Weather Channel, and he's also buying three small-market TV stations in Indiana and Louisiana.
  13. I definitely remember seeing an Angels billboard along Wilshire Boulevard right around that time as well. They and the Dodgers did a joint billboard for Trout and Kershaw back in 2015; this one was at Wilshire and Highland Avenue in the Miracle Mile District...
  14. Another MLB team gets in bed with Sinclair Broadcasting...The Yankees, along with Amazon, Sinclair, and Blackstone Capital are buying the YES Network for $3.5 billion... https://deadline.com/2019/03/yes-network-sold-for-3-5b-to-yankees-amazon-sinclair-private-equity-reports-1202572010/
  15. https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/la-sp-angels-spring-training-20190218-story.html This L.A. Times article talks about that, and practically everything else about this thread. It's basically a convoluted mess, as far as how the Fox RSNs sale gets situated...a lot of players involved. I saw somewhere else that he wants to buy both of the L.A. Fox RSNs, and Fox Sports' Arizona & San Diego channels.
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