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When Seth Davis became a studio analyst for CBS’ college basketball coverage in 2004, the general reaction was, “Who the hell is this guy?”
After all, Davis had never played college basketball and didn’t have much television experience before landing such a highly coveted job. And there were plenty of skeptics who thought Davis was just another smug Duke alum.
What people didn’t realize is that Davis had worked his ass off to get where he was. In a little over a decade since graduating college, he had gone from an aspiring sports writer covering high schools in Connecticut to a fact-checker at Sports Illustrated to an SI college basketball writer to a CBS studio analyst (the story of how much work Davis put in to accomplish this is for an entirely...
One afternoon in early August, a 41-year-old working mother in Los Angeles didn’t get much work done. Instead, she watched the London Olympics on television. She went to NBC’s Web sites to stream the competitions, which that... more »
For Major League Baseball, the television money just keeps on coming. And coming. Ratings, at least for national games that include marquee events like the World Series and All-Star Game, have been flat for years. Yet the ... more »
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