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I have no problems with our broadcast crew. Most women's basketball programs wish they could have a broadcast crew. My only complaint is graphics- I would love to see the foul situation with the running score. Other than that, I am happy with the broadcast product.
 
Jackcatscal said:
A number of years ago, I looked at my granddaughter’s AP English book, and there was a song by Bruce Springsteen in it. I said, “Ooh, there’s a song by Bruce Springsteen!” And she said...

“Who’s Bruce Springsteen?”
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Did you tell her "that's my slime"?
 
cohenzone said:
True. But it’s a little frightening that none of our current players were alive when Bascomb and Pattyson played and Rebecca, Jennifer and Kara put us on the map and think Sales is something at Kohl’s. And a bunch of us weren’t all that young at the time. A testament to GA and the miracle of blood pressure meds.
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Amazon :D
 
I used to like Meghan broadcasting but this year it seems like she gets a lot of things wrong..Bestwick is very good...The Fox crew maybe the worse ever..non stop blabbering with no pause..it was painful to listen to
 
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CL82 said:
If most of us are well seasoned, does that make us salty?
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It used to be salt and pepper but the pepper's pretty much shaken out at this point.
 
Jackcatscal said:
I first saw Kareem when he was a freshman at Power, and it wasn’t on the basketball court. He was marching with the Power Memorial band in New York’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade. (He was the tall one.)

I next saw him a year later when Power came to play my school, Fordham Prep, at the Fordham University gym. We knew who he was, of course, since we were New York City basketball fans. But I was still amazed at this 6’ 10” 16-year old sophomore doing two-handed overhead dunks during warmups. Fluid and mobile and pretty marvelous.
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I saw him in the Rome airport in the summer of 1971, on vacation after his first title. Nobody bothered him! I remember thinking how wonderful that must feel to him, and that it was unlikely to ever happen again.
 
Jordy said:
I saw him in the Rome airport in the summer of 1971, on vacation after his first title. Nobody bothered him! I remember thinking how wonderful that must feel to him, and that it was unlikely to ever happen again.
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With the Milwaukee Bucks!
 
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Jingo said:
Yeah Kara is gr8, knowledgeable, and cheerful too .. her father went to high school [Bishop Loughlin] a few blocks from my high school [Brooklyn Tech] I think he was All-City in basketball, along with Lew Alcindor, circa 1963 .. we had mutual friends .. I think I might have played against him in the park.
I like Alan Bestwick too; he gives you just the right amount of game information without the incessant banter from those ESPN & FOX commentators. Meghan Culmo is OK, but she gets a lot wrong..
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Your comment about Kara's father rang a really dim bell with me. So, I looked up her Wiki page, found her father's name (Willi Wolters), and then looked him up. I do remember him--his Bishop Loughlin team won the New York City Catholic High School championship in his sophomore year (1961?). Wolters went on to Boston College, where his senior team had a 23-3 record. See http://www.loughlin.org/uploaded/do...eunion/Whatever_Happened_To/Wolters-Willi.pdf. After college, he had a short professional stint, and then finished law school.
 
Jordy said:
I saw him in the Rome airport in the summer of 1971, on vacation after his first title. Nobody bothered him! I remember thinking how wonderful that must feel to him, and that it was unlikely to ever happen again.
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I saw Mr Robinson at JFK two years ago. He was very gracious to his adoring fans.

He was on our plane but was, of course, in FirstClass while we were in the cattle section. It was an international flight so I didn’t see him after he boarde.
 

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HuskyNan said:
I saw Mr Robinson at JFK two years ago. He was very gracious to his adoring fans.

He was on our plane but was, of course, in FirstClass while we were in the cattle section. It was an international flight so I didn’t see him after he boarde.
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What’s fun is to go to the U.S. Naval Academy, and vist their athletic facility. There, in a display case, they have a copy of Robinson’s NCAA National Player of the Year trophy—beside the Heisman trophies won by Joe Bellino and Roger Staubach.
 
browns said:
I used to like Meghan broadcasting but this year it seems like she gets a lot of things wrong..Bestwick is very good...The Fox crew maybe the worse ever..non stop blabbering with no pause..it was painful to listen to
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Well said .. I hope FOX is listening...
 
Jackcatscal said:
I had no idea what that meant. I thought it was a typo. Then, I looked it up on Google.
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I just did. Who knew?
 
For what it’s worth, Kara is exactly the same person in person as she is on air. Genuinely very nice and very friendly.
 
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Jackcatscal said:
What’s fun is to go to the U.S. Naval Academy, and vist their athletic facility. There, in a display case, they have a copy of Robinson’s NCAA National Player of the Year trophy—beside the Heisman trophies won by Joe Bellino and Roger Staubach.
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When David Robinson was admitted to the Naval Academy, he was 6’5”, the maximum height for admission at the time. His growth spurt happened in college; pretty amazing.
 
Jackcatscal said:
Your comment about Kara's father rang a really dim bell with me. So, I looked up her Wiki page, found her father's name (Willi Wolters), and then looked him up. I do remember him--his Bishop Loughlin team won the New York City Catholic High School championship in his sophomore year (1961?). Wolters went on to Boston College, where his senior team had a 23-3 record. See http://www.loughlin.org/uploaded/do...eunion/Whatever_Happened_To/Wolters-Willi.pdf. After college, he had a short professional stint, and then finished law school.
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Yeah, Kara's father and I were on similar paths: both German, neighbors in Queens, traveling by subway to specialized high school in downtown Brooklyn, eh?
Quite an honour for "Willie" to be on the same stage as Lew Alcindor & Sonny Dove [SFP] i.e. All-City in the CHSAA! .. I never forgave Lew [now Kareem] for ditching his roots and playing for the Wizard on the Left Coast .. Lew wasn't allowed to play in his freshman year, allowing some upstarts from the Bronx to win the national championship playing for Texas Western, a good story that was made into a good fillum [as they say in Bvooklyn]
 

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Jackcatscal said:
A number of years ago, I looked at my granddaughter’s AP English book, and there was a song by Bruce Springsteen in it. I said, “Ooh, there’s a song by Bruce Springsteen!” And she said...

“Who’s Bruce Springsteen?”
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I had a similar experience about 40 years ago when I worked at Hartford Stage. Some kids were in, probably working a changeover between shows, and Paul McCartney came up, and we were talking about some of the great Beatles songs and the kids had blank expressions on their faces, then one piped in ' oh, wasn't't that the group he was with before wings?' Unbelievable!
 
TB12 said:
I think our games on SNY are very good... Allen could update the # of points players have during the games a lot more often.
The ESPN games have the potential to be better, but they have to plug upcoming mens games, which most of us do not care about, and often the analyst will compare women players to NBA players. They chat way too much, driving me crazy, because the game is going on... They often do not explain what a whistle is for , and the ball changes teams and we do not know why..
It is a lot worse now that some games are called from the studio or from home. Caroline Peck explaining what is being said in a huddle is often not believable, and she is a thousand miles away. I do love to see Rebecca and now Sue Bird doing the games.

The Fox crew was terrible, but THANK YOU Fox for tying. Please be better next time.
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Considering that it was FOX's first ever broadcasting of a women's college basketball game, I gave them a pass because many of the viewers may have been watching UConn and/or DePaul for the first time. I think they tried to bring the viewers up to speed on the women's game, especially those that have never watched before.
 
Jingo said:
Funny, chem [and math] were my best subjects, my major(s) in college .. I taught math at Christ the King HS where Chamique, Sue Bird & Tina Charles attended. I also coached for the Liberty Belles AAU, the farm team for all those CTK national championships, eh?
Both of my daughters played hoops at CTK.
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So you know something about women's basketball, eh?
 
MSGRET said:
Considering that it was FOX's first ever broadcasting of a women's college basketball game, I gave them a pass because many of the viewers may have been watching UConn and/or DePaul for the first time. I think they tried to bring the viewers up to speed on the women's game, especially those that have never watched before.
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I believe the broadcast was the first on the National network Fox station - the one that has NFL games, TV programs, NASCAR, etc. However I believe the two game announcers have done plenty of broadcasts on FS1, FS2 and Fox Regional Sports Networks before the game on Fox.
 
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