Tonight on the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show I am going to devote the full time to discussing College Football.
Whatever you want to discuss; opening weekend upsets (Michigan), overrated teams (Florida State and Notre Dame), big games to watch for
this week, schools, coaches, players and polls. It's all College
Football, all night on the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show!
The 16th installment of the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show will air on Wednesday, September 5 at 10:00pm EST. Guests will include:
Tonight on the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show I am going to devote the full time to discussing College Football. Whatever you want to discuss; opening weekend, big games to watch for this season, schools, coaches, players and polls. It's all College Football, all night on the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show!
***Note***
For this week only, the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show is moving to 11:00 PM EST. We will return to our usual 10:00PM EST slot next week.
The 15th installment of the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show will air on Wednesday, August 29 at 11:00pm EST. Guests will include:
.........well here is your chance to make your case!
Tonight on the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show I am going to devote the full time to discussing College Football. The topic for the show will be:
"I believe my favorite college team has a shot at winning the BCS National Championship!"
I have six fantastic guests this week and they will get five-seven minutes to make the case why their favorite team will win the BCS National Championship. Slots for next week will be limited to one person per school so if you want to make a case, drop me a line at Gatordebate@aol.com as soon as possible.
The 14th installment of the FoxSports.com Bloggers Show will air on Wednesday, August 22 at 10:00pm EST. Guests will include:
Marty Walker (Ohio State)
Lisa4USC (USC)
Nostradomus (Nebraska)
Rev (Florida)
Josh Q. Public (BC)
KSP113 (Penn State)
The topic we will be discussing is:
"I believe my favorite college team has a shot at winning the BCS National Championship!"
The times they are a changin' for the All Star Bloggers Show!
I recently spoke with Steve Miller, managing editor of
Fox Sports.com and both he and his boss have been checking out the show
and they like what they have been hearing. They've also seen some of
the buzz that the show has generated on the blogs. They have asked if I
would be interested in having FoxSports.com promote the show and of
course I said yes. Possibly for this week and definitely by next week,
they will begin running a link to the show on the FoxSports.com
website. They will include a blurb concerning guests and topics. There
is concern about routing traffic away from the Fox Sports site but I
have agreed to do some promotion of Fox Sports.com on the show (The Fox
Funhouse page in particular).
Steve seems to think that the show may get so much traffic that we may
crash the BlogTalkRadio server. I have alerted the folks at BTR so they
are preparing for tomorrow (as best as they can) and they will hopefully be set
by next week.
I will be sending Steve a list of guests and topics every Tuesday and
he will begin linking the show to the Fox Sports site. The ultimate
goal will be to get FoxSports.com to actually house the show right on
their site but they are not at that point yet.
I can use your help folks. I would love it if you could go onto the blogs and promote the show. The new show name is:
The Fox Sports.com Bloggers Show (do not refer to it as the "Fox Sports
Bloggers Show"...you need the "dotcom" in there to avoid me getting an
earful from the TV Division)
The url is: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FoxSportsdotcom_Blog gers_Show
If you'd like to put a button for the show on your blog, here is the
html code that you can copy and paste in:
I am keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow night!
As for the show tomorrow night....................................
Eleventh show and we are still going strong!
This week's FoxSports.com Bloggers Show will air at 10:00 pm EST on Wednesday evening.
Our guests this week will be:
Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 10:00 pm EST
Lisa4USC
Demonicume
Broblog
bluegrassLady
Reve rend Rhythm
We have some interesting items to discuss this week including:
1) Race and sports. Does race play a role in the way the fans, the media and others look at the Barry Bonds situation, the Michael Vick case and even the Donaghy referee scandal. Broblog and Demonicume will be on board to debate that.
2) Bringing their "He said, She said" blog to the show, bluegrassLady and the Rev will be debating the future of the Boston Celtics in light of the Garnett trade.
3) Lisa will open the show and will be on board for some football discussion. College football season is ONLY 27 days away!
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had, we are having and will continue to
have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers.
This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10:00 pm EST on Wednesday evening.
Our guests this week will be:
Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 10:00 pm EST SoCalSportsFan Broblog
We have some interesting items to discuss this week including:
1) Mike Vick - Will he ever play again in the NFL and what does this scandal to to him, the team and the league as a whole?
2) The NBA Referee Scandal - Does this doom the prospects of an NBA franchise moving to Vegas?
3) Ian Johnson says he needs extra security for his wedding in Boise. Is this a sad ending to an otherwise storybook tale?
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had, we are having and will continue to
have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers.
This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10:00 pm EST on Wednesday evening.
Our guests this week will be:
Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 10:00 pm EST SoCalSportsFan FishElkhornCreek
We have some interesting items to discuss this week including:
1) Gary Sheffield's controversial comments about Joe Torre and the Yankees. 2) Massive contracts given out in the past week to Dwight Freeney and Ichiro. Is there a long term impact? 3) Barry Bonds inches closer to the Home Run record. We will discuss the "Al Capone" of baseball and the issues surrounding the record.
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had, we are having and will continue to
have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers.
We are heading into the eighth installment of the show folks and still going strong. The feedback has been great. This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10:00 pm EST on Wednesday evening. We have had over 1200 hits on the show on the archive and our live listener base has been strong so I thank you for that!
Last week, I tweaked the show format a bit and did the show by myself and went right to the phone lines. This week I will have two guests and we will divide the show into two segments; a 10:00-10:30 segment and a 10:30-11:00 segment. The lineup for this week is as follows:
Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 10:00 pm EST kenrickthomas - 10:00 Neil Blackmon (theninthinning) - 10:30
We have some interesting items to discuss this week including:
1) The topic of the quality of blogging on the Fox Sports site as well as some interesting political commentary was brought up last week by Kendrick so we will discuss that a bit.
2) The Major League All-Star game is taking front and center sports news so we will wrap up the first half of the season and look ahead to the second half of the season with Neil. Neil is a good friend of mine and he is new to the Fox Sports blogging community so I wanted to get him on the show to introduce himself and talk some baseball. He really is like a young Peter Gammons!
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
Just a few quick things:
1) The show is going to go on at 10:00 pm instead of 11:00 for those of you that can't remember when we air.
2) Promote the show. Mention the upcoming show in your blogs. Maybe
include a link to the show:
3) I think I'm doing better with the phone calls each week and I'll try to do even better this week. As I've been saying,
the show is a work in progress and I know some folks did not get their
calls through last week. I will try my best to correct this.
4) The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had, we are having and will continue to
have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers. I promise to try my
best to not mess it up!
After a day of backyard barbeque's,drinking some brews, and watching baseball, make sure you come on over to BlogTalkRadio.com and check out this week's All-Star Bloggers Show. This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10::00 pm EST on Wednesday evening.
The guests for this week's show will be..........................
YOU!!!
That's right folks, this week's guests will be the callers that call into the show. In the spirit of Independence Day (coupled with the fact that few folks would commit to doing a show on a holiday), we are turning the entire show over to the callers, many of whom are great bloggers at Fox Sports. Over the past few weeks, I've had trouble getting to all of the callers so for this week we will take a page from the Rush Limbaugh playbook and have "open mike Wednesday."
Got a rant? Share it with us.
Got a question? Share it with me.
Looking for a debate? Bring it on!
I'll give my rant on what's got me worked up in the world of sports and then the phone lines will open!
There are a few things that have ME pissed off in the world of sports this week:
1) Big Papi should not be starting in the 2007 MLB All-Star game. The guy played seven games at 1B and either Youkilis or Morneau should be starting ahead of him. He is NOT a first baseman.
2) Grant Hill is thinking of going to the Suns? The guy makes $93 million from the Magic who stuck with him through a ton of injury plagued seasons and this is how he wants to pay back the fans of Orlando? What a jerk.
3) Yi Gianlin says he wants to be traded from the Bucks. I think he should just shut up and sign with the team that drafted him but I don't think the Bucks did there homework either. Just like when the Magic drafted Rudy Fernandez with the 11th pick a few years back and he opted to stay in Spain, should teams do a bit more homework before they make a draft day blunder?
I will give my take on these issues but I also want to hear what YOU have to say!
Just a few quick things:
1) The show is going to go on at 10:00 pm. This will be our time slot.
2) Promote the show. Mention the upcoming show in your blogs. Maybe
include a link to the show:
3) The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special (and this show in particular) is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had, we are having and will continue to
have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers. I promise to try my
best to not mess it up!
We are heading into the sixth installment of the show folks and still going strong. The feedback has been great. This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10::00 pm EST on Wednesday evening. We have had over 1000 hits on the show on the archive and our live listener base has been strong so I thank you for that!
The lineup for this week is as follows (and what a lineup it is!):
Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 10:00 pm EST rivjo joshQpublic MartyWalker
We have some interesting items to discuss this week including:
1) MLB talk: Yankees are slumping again, should Bonds go to the
All-Star game, what do we expect from Perdro Martinez as he continues
his comeback. rivjo and Josh are going to throw down on some MLB talk!
2) NFL talk: Tank Johnson released by the Bears and Pacman Jones' legal
woes continue to mount. Will we see either of these guys ever suit up
again for an NFL game? Should NFL teams get "salary cap relief" when
they suspend players who have run afoul of the law or team/league
policy?
3) The Chris Benoit story (it's big news and it's being covered on all
the major sports sites): Will this touch off a serious investigation
into drug use in professional wrestling and will this become a
potential deathblow to the WWE, Vince McMahon and wrestling or will
this issue just go away in a few weeks?
4) Kobayashi listed as "day to day" and is doubtful for the July 4th
Nathan Hot Dog eating contest at Coney Island. What does this do to
the event to lose it's marquee name and will we see an epidemic of
"arthritic jaws" afflicting professional eaters? We can have some fun
with this topic folks.
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
Just a few quick things:
1) The show is going to go on at 10:00 pm instead of 11:00 for those of you that can't remember when we air.
2) Promote the show. Mention the upcoming show in your blogs. Maybe
include a link to the show:
3) I think I'm doing better with the phone calls each week and I'll try to do even better this week. As I've been saying,
the show is a work in progress and I know some folks did not get their
calls through last week. I will try my best to correct this.
4) The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had, we are having and will continue to
have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers. I promise to try my
best to not mess it up!
I can't believe we are heading into the fifth installment of the show. The feedback has been great. This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10::00 pm EST on Wednesday evening. We have had close to 1000 hits on the show on the archive and our live listener base has been strong so I thank you for that!
The lineup for this week is as follows:
Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 10:00 pm EST GR8ONE54 broblog ksp113
We have a lot of items to discuss this week including:
1) The Daunte Culpepper situation in Miami is similar to the Steve
McNair issue in Tennessee. What do we think of players under contract
being locked out of camps and OTA's by their team.
2) The NBA Finals - No one watched them. Viewership was at an all-time
low. Why and what can be done.
3) The Yankees are resurgent. Can they catch the Red Sox?
4) Nick Saban finally signs his contract for Alabama and it stipulates
limited interaction with boosters and fans. He's also coming under
fire for being too mean and tough on his players. Is he a tough coach
or just a cruel tyrant.
5) Pacman gets in trouble with the law again and Lavar Arington breaks
his leg in a motorcycle accident. Who's having a worse week!
6) Oden and Durant will go 1-2 to the Blazers and Sonics. Who will go
at the #3 spot?
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
Just a few quick things:
1) The show is going to go on at 10:00 pm instead of 11:00. This will be our time slot for good.
2) Promote the show. Mention the upcoming show in your blogs. Maybe
include a link to the show:
3) I think I'm doing better with the phone calls each week and I'll try to do even better this week. As I've been saying,
the show is a work in progress and I know some folks did not get their
calls through last week. I will try my best to correct this.
4) The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had
(thanks Lisa, Rev, Steeler, MeanD, Dan, AK47, Demon, ricko, Hoffman, rivjo, bluegrassLady and chuxtory) we are having and will continue to have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers. I promise to try my
best to not mess it up!
I've had to make some adjustments for this week's show but I am really happy with the group that we have and the topics we are ready to debate/discuss. This week's All-Star Bloggers show will air at 10::00 pm EST on Wednesday evening. We have had close to 1000 hits on the show on the archive and our live listener base has been strong so I thank you for that!
The lineup for this week is as follows:
Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:00 pm EST rivjo bluegrassLady chuxtory
We have a lot of items to discuss this week including:
The NBA Finals - Can Cleveland win a game?
Junior to Hendrick Motorsports...is the apocalypse upon us?
The A-Rod situation - can he survive the season and will he be back in the Bronx next year?
Billy Donovan - Is there still an outside shot he goes to Kentucky and can he help their program?
A U.S. Open Preview - Will it be the Tiger and Lefty show or will someone else crash the party?
We will discuss/debate these issues but we also want to hear what YOU have to say!
Talk about a fantastic lineup. I think folks will want to tune in to
what y'all have to say.
Just a few quick things:
1) The show is going to go on at 10:00 pm instead of 11:00. The
earlier slot should get us a few more
listeners.
3) I think I did a little better with the phone calls last week and I'll try to do even better this week. As I've been saying,
the show is a work in progress and I know some folks did not get their
calls through last week. I will try my best to correct this.
4) The call in number is (646) 478-5128. Please don't hesitate to call
in. Part of what makes the show special is the interaction with the
callers who bring such a strong dimension to the show. Also, if you
would like to be a guest on the All-Star Bloggers show, please contact
me at Gatordebate@aol.com.
There are so many great bloggers out there and I want to give anyone
that wants to have it, a chance to come on the show. Make no mistake
folks, the show is not about me but about the great guests we have had
(thanks Lisa, Rev, Steeler, MeanD, Dan, AK47, Demon, ricko, and Hoffman) we are having and will continue to have.
This is a show by the bloggers and for the bloggers. I promise to try my
best to not mess it up!
With summer teaching, taking my last Graduate School class, getting ready for the Deland Knights Pop Warner football season and The All-Star Bloggers Show, I haven't really blogged much in the past month. It's been a combination of not quite having the time and not quite having something to get me charged up enough to do some blogging.
That was true until I turned on Sportscenter this morning.
When I saw Chad Johnson racing a horse at River Downs I went numb. I could not believe that 8,000 people would turn out to see a human being race an animal in the year 2007. Johnson raced and beat Restore the Roar yesterday. Restore the Roar's jockey, P.J. Cooksey said of Johnson "he's a fast man. That was phenomenal. When I looked over at him, all I
could see were his legs; they looked like a windmill. He was a blur. I
was beat bad." I can remember Al Campanis and Jimmy the Greek referring to a Black man's legs and being fired shortly thereafter. My how the times have changed.
My shock seemed to grow as I read numerous internet reports of the race. There seemed to be no negative commentary and no mention of a time in American history when one of our greatest athletes had to race horses to earn a living, not just as a publicity charity stunt. Is it me? Am I in the minority here? Am I out of touch with what is and is not decent in America? Do I have a skewed view of race and race relations in this country?
With all due respect to Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, and Muhammad Ali, my vote for greatest athlete of all time is Jesse Owens and my vote for greatest athletic feat of all time is Owens' four gold medals in the 1936 Sumer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Competing in a most hostile environment, in one of the most evil physical spaces on Earth and in front of the embodiment of racism and horror, Adolf ####, Owens captured gold in the Men's 100, 200, Long Jump and as the anchor of the U.S. Men's 4X100 relay team. Owens accomplishment transcended athletics and spilled over into the realm of international geopolitics and the intersection of culture and race.
The image of ####'s Brown Shirted Army marching through the stadium while the sickly chilling #### anthem "Deutschland Uber Alles" played was like watching a horror movie played out in front of your eyes. This was going to be ####'s attempt to show the world that he was right about his myth of Aryan supremacy. In Germany, the ####s portrayed African-Americans as inferior and
ridiculed the United States for relying on "black auxiliaries." One
German official even complained that the Americans were letting
"non-humans, like Owens and other Negro athletes," compete. When Owens was finished, this African-American son of a
sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed
####'s myth.
A proud and humble man, Owens never
rubbed it in. Just as sure as he knew fascism was evil, he also knew
his country had a long way to go as well in improving life for
African-Americans.
"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about
####, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said. "I had to
go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited
to shake hands with ####, but I wasn't invited to the White House to
shake hands with the President, either."
Upon Owens' return to New York and a ticker-tape parade, he had to
ride the freight elevator to a reception in his honor at the
Waldorf-Astoria. He was treated as a kind of an oddity. When
endorsements and other opportunities didn't come his way, he made money by, among other
activities, running against horses.
"People said it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a
horse, but what was I supposed to do?" Owens said. "I had four gold
medals, but you can't eat four gold medals."
While we as Americans reflect on the mid 1930's as a time when ####sm was the greatest blight on world history, we should also reflect on how issues of race and culture were not handled much better in our country. The fact that our greatest Olympic champion could compete under the most ominous of circumstances and almost singlehandedly destroy the myth of Aryan supremacy but then come home and have to ride freight elevators, sit in the back of buses, stay out of certain clubs and restaurants and yes, have to race horses for a living in a sad testament to where we were as a nation in 1936.
Fast forward to the year 2007. Things are not perfect in our country in the area of race but they are much better than they were seventy years ago. Of course African-Americans don't have to ride freight elevators anymore, or sit in the backs of buses, or stay out of certain restaurants. There are more Black Americans in U.S. colleges and universities today than ever before. There are more Black Americans that hold positions of prominence in law, politics, business and industry than ever before. Per Capita income of Black Americans is higher than probably 90% of the world. Mortality rates for Black Americans are lower in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world. Like I said, things are not perfect. There will always be racism and ignorance in this country. It's unavoidable. Why someone would do something that in any way would fuel that racism and ignorance is beyond me. Chad Johnson does not have to race horses to raise money for charity. It is demeaning to him, demeaning to Black America and demeaning to the legend of Jesse Owens who had to race horses to survive.
Early on in his career, Michael Jordan made the conscious decision to not allow interviwers to speak with him when he was sitting in a towel at his locker. If you wanted to interview MJ, you had to wait until he showered and put on his suit and went to the interview room. When asked why he did this, he said it was because he wanted to be looked at and treated as a professional and that is how professionals should carry themselves. By racing a horse (and I'm not even going to comment on the outfit he was wearing), Chad Johnson was not acting like the professional and the millionaire that he is. By racing a horse, Chad Johnson was doing nothing more than providing ammunition to the close minded bigot who watched that clip and thought to himself "See that n***er running against a horse, how fitting" or some other hateful venomous comment.
Now you might say that it is because of pioneering athletes like Jesse Owens that Chad Johsnon has the right to race a horse if he wants to. To me, that's just ####. You can also say that Johnson has the right to sing old slave songs while performing in white face at the local country club to raise money if he wants to but unless you are a member of the ####, you would probably agree that that would be wrong. Racing a horse is no different.
Seventy years ago Jesse Owens had to race horses to make a living. Chad Johnson does it as a publicity stunt. I don't know what Jesse Owens would say to Chad Johnson given the opportunity but I do believe in my heart that he is rolling over in his grave right now.
My name is Frank Irizarry and I am an Assistant Professor of Communication at Suffolk University in beautiful Beantown. I teach courses in public relations. I am an avid sports fan with football being my true passion. I played two seasons of College Football for Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York (1989-1991). My most rewarding football experience though has come in the past four years as the Head Coach for my oldest son's Pop Warner football team, the Deland Knights. This past season we were 8-1, 6-0 in our Division and we finished in third place in the Mid-Florida Conference (The SEC of youth football!) . I used to be a college debate coach so I like to make and hear what I think are good arguments.
