Well, heck, if I'm going to make a big deal about all the national coverage of the draft, I might as well tell you what SNY has planned for Our Jets.
Click below to read the news release. (Read Newsday all weekend, too, obviously.)
Speaking of SNY, I've gotten a lot of feedback on my Tuesday column about the channel's new sports talk shows, and about sports talk in general.
Some thought I was too harsh, some not harsh enough. But one theory is that I'm just another print reporter jealous of my TV and radio counterparts. (Granted, it's a distinction that gets more blurred by the day.)
Jealousy is not the word. But there is no doubt an element of resentment on the part of unsung print reporters who man the front lines in the locker rooms and on the road, interviewing people and gathering the raw material that fuels the sports babble industry.
That's why the best local sports debate show was the late, great "Giants On-Line" on MSG and later YES.
It featured four journalists, one radio play-by-play man and one hyperactive public relations man with an important thing in common: They actually were around the team on a daily basis.
(Full disclosure: Yes, I was one of the stars of the show, which carries on - kind of - as an element of the Giants' TV and Web content. Sigh.)
Now I'm really done for the week. Enjoy the Shockey trade.
SNY, the television home of the New York Jets, will kick off its comprehensive two-day Jets Nation: Draft Day 08 coverage live on the network’s plaza – located directly across the street from Radio City Music Hall – on Saturday, April 26 at 2:00pm.
SNY’s all-access Jets draft coverage will feature exclusive one-on-one interviews with every Jets draft selection, player profiles and live interviews – before and after the draft – with Head Coach Eric Mangini and GM Mike Tannenbaum from outside the draft room at Hofstra University.
Jets Nation: Draft Day 08, hosted by Brian Custer, will showcase in-depth analysis on the Jets draft needs and player selections from NFL Insider Adam Schein, former Jets and current SNY football analysts Ray Lucas and Greg Buttle and SI.com draft contributor Tony Pauline. Cornerback Darrelle Revis, the Jets 2007 first round draft pick, will also be live on the plaza participating on the shows. Steve Overmyer will report live from outside the Jets draft room at Hofstra.
Jets Nation: Draft Day '08 will air live on the following dates/times:
►Saturday, April 26: 2:00pm-3:00pm (Live on SNY’s Plaza)
►Saturday, April 26: 9:30pm-10:00pm
►Sunday, April 27: 9:00am-10:00am
►Sunday, April 27: 9:30pm-10:00pm
Comments (3)
giants online also had the best dressed journalists,even you nb.
No, I think you were pretty even-handed in your assessment of the SNY gasbag shows. They don't further the conversation and are a cheap knock-off of other, more established [if you can call it that] shows on ESPN and YES.
That's what a media critic does. And you're doing it the right way.
Your soon-to-be-colleague Mushnick is extremely jaded, and your other-may-soon-to-be-colleague Raissman is one big conflict-of-interest problem, as the folks at any college journalism program or at Editor and Publisher can tell you.
Then again, your soon-to-be-colleague could also be James Dolan.
Who the Zell knows?
PS The Giants show wasn't bad way back when. Wasn't bad, and I'm a Jets fan.
I like you Neil and liked you on the show when I just knew you as a beat writer for the G-Men he didn't go for the soundbite or argue. The other writers though, especially Fooch, were just hard to take on a week to week basis. He was such a Dallas Cowboys boot-licker when Parcells was there and disappeared during the Giants run to the SB. Giants Online would have been better if it was more about talking about the matchups and not nagging Hanlon on saying something he shouldn't about the organization or fall for Fooch's BS. It really was a precursor to the shows on SNY except with writers.
Personally I would rather have Newsday Live! than Daily News Live with their AAA writers while Lupica and Myers have duties to other networks and Bondy is in the Yankee Stadium bleachers.