Sports Coverage Quotes

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.

I read the Guardian when I can get it, but I have to admit I mostly turn to the sport.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

There are so many websites I read; I look at everything from Slashdot to Ars Technica to the business technology sites, major newspapers like the 'New York Times,' and my local papers where I live, which cover the sports teams I'm involved with. There are about 20 sites we go to regularly, and I do use Twitter and Facebook as well.

It's an honour to be an Ambassador for DStv. Their passion for promoting sports is unrivalled across Africa.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.