Dear Listers,
Here's the scenario:
Two HS XS runners are dueling it out for a county championship. One
runner makes a wrong move and runs "slightly" (@30 to 40 yards with 800m to
go) off course. She eventually gets outrun (by a substantial distance) by the
runner who stays on course and
On today's telecast of the US Indoor Champs on ESPN2, for the umpteenth time
the interviewer confronted Maurice Greene about the post-race antics of the
US 4x100 team in Sydney. Once again Mo graciously did his best to explain,
apologize, and promise that it won't happen again.
How many more
Kurt wrote:
>On today's telecast of the US Indoor Champs on ESPN2, for the umpteenth
time
>the interviewer confronted Maurice Greene about the post-race antics of
the
>US 4x100 team in Sydney. Once again Mo graciously did his best to
explain,
>apologize, and promise that it won't happen again
Kurt Bray wrote:
"On today's telecast of the US Indoor Champs on ESPN2, for the umpteenth time
the interviewer confronted Maurice Greene about the post-race antics of the
US 4x100 team in Sydney. Once again Mo graciously did his best to explain,
apologize, and promise that it won't happen aga
Phil wrote:
>No kidding. I wasn't even watching today, being stuck on the road, but a
>few weeks ago I was reminded of this when I was watching one of the other
>participants to once again make his public "Mea Culpa".
>
>At this point, it's offensive. This reflects lazy interviewing, and shoddy
I think it is not possible to please the experts on this list and the
general population at the same time. The world of the track nut and the
average ESPN viewer is just not the same.
"You can please some of the people all of the time or all of the people some
of the time but you can't please all
Walt wrote:
>This was the first time that Maurice Greene has been on a track telecast
>since the Olympics. It was Larry Rawson and I who convinced the producer
>that
>it was journalistically correct to address the issue, let Maurice say his
>piece, and be done with it forever.
This may be the
