Saw this piece from The Big Lead about rising sport media personalities - ranks about 60 of them, many of which cover college basketball and NBA. Some are names we are already seeing and hearing from - others likely to become commonplace in next several years. Will be interesting to see how these folks do, especially with the changes going on in places like ESPN.
Local piece of interest - Tate Frazier at #32 from The Ringer is from Henderson, NC - just north of Durham and younger brother of my next door neighbor (who is also my son's law practice partner).
"Frazier is Bill Simmons’s producer. He also co-hosts the site’s college basketball podcast with Mark Titus, and is Michael Lombardi’s partner on the GM Street pod."
http://thebiglead.com/2017/07/17/40-...media-talents/
Tate HATES Duke. He's actually pretty entertaining when he and Titus get going. Part of the Ringer's appeal is the allowance, even encouragement of rampant homerism, but you know, GTHC.
Plus, as a fairly young fella myself, gotta admit, pretty jealous of him. I feel like I could do what he does (even though I'm sure I probably couldn't, except for interjecting into Simmons podcasts with #freejahlil stuff).
Whatever the hell "it" is, Jabari found it.
-Roy "Ole Huck" Williams
I can't believe this guy is considered a "rising star" in sports media. I understand Bill Simmons' podcast is a pretty nice platform, but Tate has never once shown that he has any objectivity when it comes to his sports takes. I haven't checked out his podcast with Titus (and I have no desire to). I guess some people are into that, but Tate obviously doesn't ingratiate himself to Duke fans . . .
If there is one thing about the Ringer that I'm not a fan of is that they are decidedly not Duke friendly (Simmons loves to hate Duke as well).
“Those two kids, they’re champions,” Krzyzewski said of his senior leaders. “They’re trying to teach the other kids how to become that, and it’s a long road to become that.”