Media

IU basketball media challenge was a lot of fun but a lot work

Prior to the 2011-12 Indiana basketball season, head coach Tom Crean held the 2nd Annual Media Challenge at Cook Hall and Assembly Hall on Thursday. It was a unique and fun opportunity to see inside the program and how hard they work each day. (Click here to see a photo gallery from the day from…

Remember who cuts your check: Hank Williams Jr. fired from ESPN

Hank Williams Jr. will no longer appear on Monday Football after 20 strong years after his recent comments in an interview went way over line. I’m sure most people can’t even name one of his songs, but they do know “Are you ready for some football!” I don’t remember ever watching a Monday Night Football game…

Debut of my new radio show tonight

Beginning tonight, I will once again have a weekly sports talk show. While in high school, I had a show for my final two years called ‘N the Game Sportswire,’ where I primarily hit on North Central High School sports along with the pro sports. The Sunday Night Conversation, will air every Sunday from 8-9…

Tom Crean endorses twitter but recognizes the importance to tweet wisely

Social media and twitter have become the first and one of the best places to get information. In athletics, coaches, players, and media members put themselves out in the public, pass along information and show off their personality. In college athletics, many coaches have decided to ban their players from using it during the season….

Beat the throw: twitter has become my newspaper

I’ll admit, I was skeptical at first. Twitter initially came off as a lot of facebook status updates, and who needs that when there is facebook? I was already member and had “friended” everyone I knew on the social media wesbite. Twitter turned out to be a different platform and now one that I panic without. I…