Posts Tagged ‘Don Imus’

Sports media and political correctness

March 22nd, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

April 6, 1987 is a day that lives on in sports infamy, but not for any specific athletic achievement on the field.  In a live, late-night interview in front of millions of viewers, Ted Koppel, the host of Nightline, asked then Dodger General Manager, Al Campanis, why there were so few African-Americans managing in Major League Baseball.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Tweeting for the Super Bowl

February 8th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

Since I couldn’t make it to either Miami or New Orleans for Super Bowl XLIV, I decided to hunker down in front of the laptop and Tweet the night away. I was curious to see a) who else was doing so and b) what they were writing about during the most watched television event in history. Read the rest of this entry »

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