CSTV covers big hockey game without attending it
Two more things about Cornell hockey, then I'll move on to less interesting sports:
1. I heard about this last week but didn't get around to writing it, and now College Hockey News has beaten me to it. It's about the cheesy manner in which CSTV covered Saturday night's sold out Cornell-BU game at the Garden.
A CBS spokesperson told me Friday it is not unusual for events to be covered with announcers in a studio rather than on location, complete with a production truck, but in this case the studio in question was just a mile or so from the game itself!
Weak.
2. During my visit to NBC's "Football Night in America" studios Sunday, I finally got my chance to confront Keith Olbermann over a mistake he made in an entry for Eric Mirlis' recent book, "Being There."
Olbermann identified the Providence player who missed an empty net in the 1979 ECAC quarterfinals as Behn Wilson. In fact, it was Randy Wilson. (Cornell came back from a 5-1 third-period deficit to win in overtime - a feat it failed to repeat against BU Saturday.)
Keith (Class of 1979) was properly contrite and humbled. (No, really.). Apology accepted.
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For a game that sold out MSG, there was very little written about it in the paper that finds it way to my driveway each morning. :(
My item on it in Friday's newspaper was pretty much the only thing written about it in the major NY papers. Very weird. But I'm biased.
Most international soccer is done that way and the Basketball World Championships over the summer which were on ESPN and NBA-TV were done that way too. It's done a lot overseas, but only on unimportant events here. Most every futbol game we see on cable that isn't American soccer is done that way. It's easy to tell, you never see the announcers. If you think about it the Olympics are also done that way with the announcing done over the taped event to keep it running smoothly.
Didn't MSG "cover" the Red Bulls' away games the same way?