No Chair Throwing Please; Just Some Talk About Sports

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Bob Costas turns from blogosphere to baseball
Published 7/15/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
Commack's own Bob Costas was kind enough to invite me to his latest sports-related town hall meeting, which debuts on HBO Wednesday night and focuses on various aspects of the national pastime. I politely declined, because I have other plans and because I feared Buzz Bissinger might show up unannounced, thus triggering another round of my nightmares about his April 29 tirade. Here is a Wall Street Journal story about the Buzz show and new one.

WSJ: Barra: Costas Now: No Chair-Throwing, Please; Just Some Talk About Sports
Published 7/15/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
WSJ: Barra: Costas Now: No Chair-Throwing, Please; Just Some Talk About Sports “The truth,” says Mr. Costas, “is that this issue was a powder keg waiting to explode somewhere, and ours just happened to be the match that set it off. I think Buzz (Bissinger) realizes he did a disservice to the journalistic standards he was claiming to uphold by jumping on Will that way. At the same time, it’s easy for many of those in the blogosphere to dismiss Buzz’s outburst as representative of the objections the mainstream sports media has to the excesses of the Internet. “Put it this way: ...

Costas Does Not Want Viewers if They Are Looking for a 'Repeat of Bissinger - Leitch'
Published 7/17/2008 at FanHouse
... However, if your motivation for watching Costas Now this evening (9 p.m., HBO, natch) is to see a Bissinger - Leitch II, then Costas would prefer you not bother changing the channel. So sayeth Bob to the WSJ. ...