That was the working-class escape: go and be a footballer or form a band. | | | | Fireworks at the ballpark.
(Dave Reginek/Getty Images) | | | | | | “That was the working-class escape: go and be a footballer or form a band.”
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| | rantnrave:// How will you watch the NBA DRAFT tonight? How did you watch the NFL DRAFT? Will you you have TWITTER up for the whole thing or try to immerse yourself in the event solely through the TV production? Do we even need to tune in anymore when the selections are broken on social media before they're announced by ESPN? TV might be the second screen for events like this. Why do NFL Draft ratings keep going up while NBA Draft ratings tumble? BRYAN CURTIS wonders why studio shows remain remarkably similar now, even on the web. Maybe now is the time to tinker. What do viewers want from a studio show? Information? That'll have to come quicker than social media. Opinions? They'll have to be unique to cut through online clutter. Vibrant personalities still bring eyeballs -- that's why INSIDE THE NBA remains successful -- but are hard to acquire. We used to need studio shows -- they were the only way to consume events like the draft. How should they adjust when we no longer do?... The two most important questions for NBA Draft picks tonight: Who picked you? What are you wearing? The draft is my favorite fashion show of the year. (For real fashion critique, please subscribe to FASHIONREDEF). The outfits are wild. They're imaginative. It's the first place I realized you could line a suit jacket with your favorite college team's jersey. I bet players put nearly as much thought into their look as teams do into drafting them. The first step to NBA fame is looking right tonight... Is DANNY AINGE the CARRIE MATHISON of the NBA? Trade down again? The CELTICS' draft room probably looks like Carrie's after she goes off her medication. Or maybe a little like RUST COHLE's. A draft board, a mattress and one swinging light bulb... QUEEN LATIFAH got game. She shook the REIGN MAN... Anyone know where I can get a pair of DOC GOODENs? I really need to let go... The new ROY HOBBS... ICE CUBE is stepping onto WOJ's turf. #CubeBomb? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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