It would be great if Sajak actually was on the mike for Vanderbilt-Nebraska on WSM tonight 1975.
22 Dec 1975, Mon The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) Newspapers.com
Showing posts with label CBK75. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CBK75. Show all posts
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
March 23, 1975
Before we all settle in to watch Boston Bruins-vs.-New York Rangers game-of-the-week NHL Action on Channel 6 at 3 this Sunday afternoon, March 23, 1975, let us bask in the afterglow of UK's big win over IU as captured in the pages of Lexington's Herald-Leader ...
23 Mar 1975, Sun The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com 
23 Mar 1975, Sun The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com 
23 Mar 1975, Sun The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com 
23 Mar 1975, Sun The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com 
23 Mar 1975, Sun The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com 
23 Mar 1975, Sun The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com I absolutely would've put this picture on Page A-1 ...
Also, the Sunday Herald-Leader has the Parade insert, which this week includes the fun of its boys' high-school all-American team ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
March 22, 1975
I'm behind on a bunch of work stuff, and I'm off college basketball for now, anyway, but I did want to make sure to get this stuff put on the HP, scrapbookstyle ...
Sunday, March 21, 2021
1975
Well, I certainly don't remember having heard of this twist ...
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 1 · The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com I did, however, know that UK won its second-round game in the 1975 NCAA men's basketball tournament ...
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 1 · The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Note to self: Don't forget to say in the comments what you want to say about this picture ...
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 25 · The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
And now No. 1 IU ...
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Meanwhile, in Louisville, the action is hot and heavy in the state tournament ...
The 1970s Paducah Sun-Democrat Channel Selector is one of my all-time-favorite periodicals ...
Fri, Mar 14, 1975 – 29 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Fri, Mar 14, 1975 – 30 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 27 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 28 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 29 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Fri, Mar 21, 1975 – 30 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Monday, March 15, 2021
College Basketball Update (1975)
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 9 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 1 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 11 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 9 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 10 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 1 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 11 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 9 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Sat, Mar 15, 1975 – 10 · Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Thursday, March 4, 2021
1975
Fri, Feb 28, 1975 – 30 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Comments flow ...
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Hilltopper Haven
From the February 17, 1969 issue of Sports Illustrated:
Down home is the place to be in the Ohio Valley Conference, especially when home is Bowling Green, Ky., where Western Kentucky plays. In a shoot-out with Murray State for the OVC lead, the Hilltoppers scored the winning basket on a tap at approximately the same time the final buzzer sounded. No goal, said Murray Coach Cal Luther. The goal counts, said Referee Charles Fouty, after conferring with Timekeeper "Big Six" Henderson, a longtime Western rooter. Luther's objection was reasonable, since the ball was fumbled, shot from 25 feet and tapped up twice, all in the last six seconds of Western's 84-82 win.
I'm very impressed at whoever it was at SI that decided to track down that much detail on this game, including the nickname of the timekeeper. Based on my own knowledge of the rivalry between Western and Murray, I'm going with SI on this one.
But it didn't work out for Western, at least that year. Murray won the OVC in 1969 -- the last time it would win the league until after Western decamped for the Sun Belt. The Racers would finish second in 1971, 1973, 1977, and 1981. They would finish either tied for first or in first in 1980, 1982, and 1983. But they would not return to the NCAA Tournament until 1988.
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Top Teams in College Basketball Today, in the Style of Sports Illustrated in the 1970's
EAST: 1. Virginia (15-3) 2. Villanova (13-3)
MIDEAST: 1. Michigan (14-1) 2. Iowa (15-6)
MIDWEST: 1. Baylor (17-0) 2. Houston (17-2)
WEST: 1. Gonzaga (20-0) 2. USC (17-3)
Here's the current breakdown for the Mideast Region:
Big 10 Champion: Michigan (14-1)
SEC Champion: Alabama (17-5)
MAC Champion: Toledo (16-6)
OVC Champion: Belmont (22-1) (I'm not sure the OVC would have added Belmont under this scenario, but Belmont is so good that it's unfair to put Western in ahead of them.)
Independent: Loyola of Chicago (18-4)
Independent: Florida St. (11-3)
Monday, January 25, 2021
The Top Teams in College Basketball Today, as Listed in the Style of Sports Illustrated in the 1970's
EAST: 1. Villanova (10-1) 2. Virginia (10-2)
MIDEAST: 1. Michigan (13-1) 2. Iowa (12-3)
MIDWEST: 1. Baylor (14-0) 2. Houston (13-1)
WEST: 1. Gonzaga (15-0) 2. USC (12-3)
Monday, January 14, 2013
Oh, Kentucky
The Kentucky State Parks also are for lovers.
My and the president's wives would likely say that they're going too light on the proteins for breakfast this morning at South Irvine, Estill Springs, West Irvine and Estill County Middle.
Turning to Louisville culture, the orchestra CEO has had enough understandably; Lynn's Paradise Cafe has closed mysteriously, and Jennifer Lawrence has won finally.
Cycling update: Announcing the Kentucky Century Challenge!
My and the president's wives would likely say that they're going too light on the proteins for breakfast this morning at South Irvine, Estill Springs, West Irvine and Estill County Middle.
Cycling update: Announcing the Kentucky Century Challenge!
Monday, January 23, 2012
1975: On Assignment
The new Sports Illustrated is here, and Terry Bradshaw is on the cover and Dan Jenkins is inside, carrying the Pittsburgh Steelers to victory in Super Bowl IX.
Jenkins's "game story" is typically rollicking. It opens with the following fun sentence: "And now, for an encore, the Pittsburgh Steelers' defense will pick up Tulane Stadium and throw it into the middle of Bourbon Street." It goes on to include all kinds of other fun stuff like the following two paragraphs on the pre-game party scene:
(T)he Super Bowl is more than just a football game, of course. And when you put it in a city like New Orleans it becomes something like the social equivalent of a Middle East war. In a sense, the week was a party-off. The NFL threw one for an intimate gathering of about 5,000 in a place called the Rivergate. The food was so far away from the entrance that John Gilliam would have had to sit down and pant after jogging there. CBS had a room in the Royal Sonesta that showed film loops of such things as the 1958 Colts-Giants game. You got to watch Johnny Unitas watching Johnny Unitas. There was a party in the still-to-be-completed Louisiana Superdome, where an unlikely combination of personalities—Fred MacMurray, Ray Bolger, Reggie Jackson, Vin Scully and the Steelers' Russell—stood around tossing shrimp shells on the stadium floor that one day, the publicists assure us, will be covered with "Mardi grass."
The French Quarter began to fill up Thursday night, and the whole thing was like one gigantic cocktail party with the edible world of Jacques Cousteau on a plate. The tiny streets were loaded with gangs of people wearing Viking hats with horns sticking out of them, or plastic Steeler hard hats. Someone as recognizable as Howard Cosell or Frank Gifford or Pete Rozelle took chances with his safety if he ventured out of his room. Cosell walked out on a balcony one day and gazed down on Royal Street. "There he is!" somebody shouted. "Get him!"' Cosell disappeared. A writer said, not altogether in jest, "Howard won't come back out. Too many snipers."
Later, Jenkins lists 10 unattributed, unsubstantiated and very fun sentences he overheard while in New Orleans.
He does not ignore the football altogether. Jenkins obviously knows and convincingly reports his stuff: "For those who enjoy the mystique of pro football technique, let it now be recorded that the violent Pittsburgh defense was a basic 4-3 with a singular stunt; Greene and Holmes played over the Minnesota center and crushed him, pinching first one way, then another. The result was that Minnesota's guards could not pull, and thus the Vikings had no blocking for their ground game."
But, for sure, Jenkins has no intention of clinically assessing the whos, whats, whens, whys and hows of the Steelers' league-championship triumph. He's there to capture the happening of Super Sunday for a publication that will be dated eight days after the game is actually played. It's a great and very fun story that makes me want to read more--more Jenkins, more of this issue, more SIs, more fun, fun, fun.
Anyway, that's all toward the front of the issue. By Page 40, the fun is mostly over, and Sports Illustrated is getting down to business. We find lots of news of record, lots of promotion for ancillary products and lots of ads back here. Even this week's second half of Frank Deford's series on Bill Tilden is pretty dreary stuff, illustrated with serious sketches. Not much fun back here.
And it is where we find the following two-page advertorial.
I read every word. Heck, I felt like I wrote every word--this week and every week since I left sportswriting and started making my living in PR and marketing. I wonder if even the writer of this piece would recognize his or her own work here. This stuff hardly ever carries a byline, and really there isn't much point. The stories follow a pretty well-defined formula: the problem being faced by the user of a product, followed by why they elected to use this particular product to solve the problem, the benefits the user has realized since adopting the product and the neat, new things the user might do with the product now. The idea is to write it specific enough to this one usage in order to be credible and interesting but also general enough so that other readers/potential users might see their own buying experience reflected in the advertorial. The result is that all of these types of stories are pretty much structured the same and sound the same.
Which is not to say that writing stuff like this is easy. It's absolutely not. For example, I would defy the great, halls-of-famer Dan Jenkins--and he is really, really great--to slip a draft opening with the word "And" by the waves of editors who would've had to sign off on this IBM deal before it ever showed up at SI's offices. Whoever wrote this thing is a pro in her/his own right, too, and he or she didn't get to have the fun of hanging out in New Orleans all weekend.
All of this is starting to sound a little bitter, and I don't mean it to be. I'm glad the Dan Jenkinses are out there doing what they do, and I'm glad there are jobs for the folks like me and the "IBM Reports" writer who get too nervous to put their own bylines on stuff or who want to be home enough to serve on church committees or who simply aren't talented enough to pull off 2,600 very fun words on command and deadline. And mostly I'm thankful that God loves us and is trying to use us all, whatever our gifts or limitations. Amen.
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