John M. Higgins, business editor at Broadcasting & Cable, died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 45. Here’s a story posted today on the B&C web site. I’ll miss him a lot. I didn’t know him long. I worked at B&C for a year and a half, first as a copy editor and then [...]
- Flak Radio, Episode Three – If you haven’t heard it, you’re missing something really special. Just like the guy who excused himself to make a cellphone call before Michael Richards’ meltdown and missed this. While Jim, Taylor and I steer away from insane, career-demolishing rants, we do have some strong feelings about the new [...]
Join Jim Norton, Taylor Carik and me as we traipse through pop culture on Flak Radio. Quoth Flak Mag: “[The hosts] flail around helplessly trying to make sense of all the crazy things barfed up by American pop culture this week.” This week, we discuss our post-election plans, play Jimmy Carter to the MTV Europe [...]
Forget that brown smear on Kenny Rogers’ hand during this year’s postseason. Joe Niekro was the subject of the best ball-doctoring story. On Aug. 2, 1987, with the pennant race heating up, Niekro was caught with a nail file in his pocket. “In his pocket” is a stretch actually. When the umpire asked him what [...]