By R.L. Bynum Driving traffic to website by “Riding with Recruits” Today’s newspaper sports writers, like their digital-only colleagues, are as likely to be holding a phone as an old-school notepad. Many times, they are recording video of coaches and players more often than they are jotting down their words. The shift to video has… Read more »
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Media Musings: NC’s McClatchy newspapers shedding personnel (again). It stinks, but here’s the latest….
By R.L. Bynum Sports editor, longtime photographer at The N&O take early-retirement offer More newsroom personnel at The N&O, The Herald-Sun and The Charlotte Observer accepted The McClatchy Company’s early-retirement offer than expected, and sports is affected at all three newspapers. In the consolidated N&O/Herald-Sun newsroom, Sports Editor Steve Ruinsky and longtime photographer Chuck Liddy… Read more »
Your 2019 #ACCValentines
Valentine’s Day used to be the most forgettable of all holidays. The candy was good, but the holiday itself was a disaster. It seemed particularly taxing for single women and paired men, but it’s 2019 and in the interest of equality I’m not gonna stereotype and instead will just say: it sucked for everyone…. Read more »
Ticketology: Who’s selling the best ACC Tournament tickets
The 2019 ACC Tournament is nearly upon us, and while plenty of positioning and jostling for seeding remains, we already know where everyone will be sitting. Scalpers still provide the best opportunity for regular fans to get tickets to the see the greatest conference tournament in college basketball, so here’s our top 15 seeds, based… Read more »
Cam Newton Getting Surgery Is Way Better Than Beto Getting His Teeth Cleaned
Instagram stories and videos were not enough. Panthers QB and man who has accounted for 240 touchdowns since 2011 Cam Newton will now be bringing us his slickly produced video content via a just launched YouTube channel. Aside from the trailer for the Cam Newton channel, the only video that has dropped so far is called,… Read more »
ACC Network Alternate Programing Ideas
by Shawn Krest When the ACC Network goes live in August, it will have to find something to air 24 hours a day. Forever. Even when there are no games going on. Surely their partners at ESPN will provide plenty of new original content for the network: Things like classic games, talking head breakdown shows… Read more »
Media Musings: Your favorite school’s best recruiter might be their social media team
By R.L. Bynum Social media has become key recruiting tool for college athletics programs Years ago, social media accounts were just nice to have for college sports information departments, which were more concerned with assisting the media. It’s still important for SIDs to give sports writers and broadcasters access and extensive information. But social media… Read more »
Media Musings: NASCAR Black Flags Media Days, NSMA Award Winners Named
by R.L. Bynum NASCAR media days get black flagged Imagine if the ACC suddenly decided to cancel its preseason media gatherings for football and basketball. The media interview the coaches and select players from each league school at the events and get information for numerous season preview packages. That’s not going to happen even though… Read more »