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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > Bally Sports Broadcasting Thread: Persistent Griddy Cam Overlay
 
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Gookzilla
Apr 3, 2003

Hate motivates
Slightly different type of Sports Broadcasting, but the Glickman documentary debuted last night on HBO and it was phenomenal. A lot of his story has been well documented, but the sheer volume of prominent figures who volunteered to contribute their thoughts about him is what really makes the piece and gives you an understanding of just how important and innovative Glickman was.

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Gookzilla
Apr 3, 2003

Hate motivates

LARGE THE HEAD posted:

But, more to your point, Real Sports owns.
Real Sports almost justifies the price of HBO alone. If you ever want a case of mental whiplash, watch an episode of Real Sports, then watch an episode of the hilariously over-produced, ridiculously dumb E:60. Every time I see that goofy fake "production meeting" section of E:60 I almost let out a guffaw, and then the laughs keep rolling when they get to the actual stories where they're posing the subjects in these weird, artsy-fartsy/symbolic camera shots and have interviews with 18 different camera angles edited together.

An entire season of E:60 couldn't match the drama of the last 15 seconds of Bernie Goldberg's interview with Mike Tyson on Real Sports. You were watching a man slip into this whole other place inside his mind and it was fascinating and terrifying all at once.

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Gookzilla
Apr 3, 2003

Hate motivates

warheadr posted:

This isn't broadcast-related, but deserves mentioning. Any talk of psychotic sports parents and what it does to the kids needs mention of the Esquire article on Todd Marinovich from several years ago. If you haven't read it yet, definitely take the time to, especially in relation to this chat about kids and sports. It's fantastic, and terribly sad.
Marinovich himself participates in a roundtable discussion with the director, Peter Berg, and others immediately following the airings. It's still a pretty sad case and he's a work in progress trying to put himself back together. In one part, someone mentions the work involved in becoming a great athlete and how if you're going to eschew the traditional childhood, you need to take some pleasure in putting in the work to become great and find joy in that. Marinovich, of course, says there was never any joy in any of it.

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