Kentucky sports and beyond.
Dick Vitale
With conference basketball swinging into gear, we move the Media Approval Ratings to the men and women who bring us the games. That means broadcasters, as in play-by-play broadcasters and color analysts. With ESPN handling the honors for Tuesday night’s Kentucky-Florida tilt inside the O-Dome, we start with WWL’s lead analyst, the now Hall of Famer Dick Vitale.
What say you on Dicky V, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Media Approval Ratings wraps up the week with the Herald-Leader’s Jennifer Smith, who counts covering UK women’s basketball and UK volleyball among her many duties at the paper.
What say you on Jennifer Smith, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Chip Cosby, Jerry Tipton, Mark Story, John Clay
Media Approval Ratings motors on toward the holiday with Chip Cosby, the Herald-Leader’s beat man for Kentucky football. You may remember Chip from his PTI’s focus on his 40-yard dash time.
What say you on Chip Cosby, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Jerry Tipton, Mark Story, John Clay
Today in the Media Approval Ratings, we move on to the Lexington Herald-Leader’s Kentucky basketball beat writer Jerry Tipton, a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame. I know, I know, Jerry isn’t going to score highly here, but he is one of, if not the best basketball reporters in the country. Not that I’m trying to influence your vote.
So what say you on Jerry Tipton, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Mark Story, John Clay
The second day of our local print Media Approval Ratings features Mark Story, sports columnist for your Herald-Leader. Mark is a Vine Grove native, who also has his blog Read Mark Story’s E-mail.
What say you on Mark Story, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: John Clay
As promised, we are returning to the Media Approval Ratings.
And as promised, we’re giving you the chance to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the print media.
Figured this would be a good week to do it, what with there being no games for a few days. Kentucky doesn’t return to action until Saturday’s matchup with Austin Peay at Rupp. And we’re still a couple of weeks away from the Cats’ Music City Bowl appearance. Remember, that’s Dec. 27 in Nashville.
We’re going to start with approval ratings on the Herald-Leader writers first, starting with me. Then we’ll continue on through the other local writers, state writers, even the blogs, etc.
The plan is to make this a daily feature for the foreseeable future.
My mother always said never put yourself first, but I figured the right thing to do is to put myself out there first.
So here’s your chance to let me have it.
What say you, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Dave Neal
The Media Approval Ratings continue today with Dave Neal, the play-by-play half of the SEC Network. Dave is a holdover from the Dave-Dave-Dave trio of the Jefferson Pilot/Lincoln Financial/Raycom SEC Network days. When ESPN bought the contract, it decided to keep Neal, while bringing in Andre Ware as color commentator. Dave is the son of Bob Neal, who at one time did play-by-play on the SEC TV Network.
So what say you on Dave Neal, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Andre Ware – Chris Fowler – Lee Corso – Bob Davie – Gary Danielson – Brent Musburger – Kirk Herbstreit – Todd Blackledge – Brandon Fisher – Brent Carney – Dan Rieffer – Rob Bromley – Alan Cutler – Kent Spencer – Dave Baker – Mary Jo Perino – Mike Cameron – Chris Cross – Dick Gabriel – Larry Glover.
Andre Ware
We’re going to crank the MARs back up. (Don’t worry, we’ll get to we writers soon, promise.) With the Cats back on the SEC Network for Saturday’s football game at Vanderbilt, time to judge the network’s color analyst, former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Andre Ware.
What say you on Andre, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Chris Fowler – Lee Corso – Bob Davie – Gary Danielson – Brent Musburger – Kirk Herbstreit – Todd Blackledge – Brandon Fisher – Brent Carney – Dan Rieffer – Rob Bromley – Alan Cutler – Kent Spencer – Dave Baker – Mary Jo Perino – Mike Cameron – Chris Cross – Dick Gabriel – Larry Glover.
Chris Fowler
The MAR returns today with another of the College GameDay group, Chris Fowler. The studio host on Saturday and play-by-play man on Thursday nights is one of the few duel-threats at ESPN.
So what say you on Chris Fowler, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Lee Corso – Bob Davie – Gary Danielson – Brent Musburger – Kirk Herbstreit – Todd Blackledge – Brandon Fisher – Brent Carney – Dan Rieffer – Rob Bromley – Alan Cutler – Kent Spencer – Dave Baker – Mary Jo Perino – Mike Cameron – Chris Cross – Dick Gabriel – Larry Glover.
Lee Corso
We’re back to our Media Approval Ratings. Sorry for the lapse. We’ll pick back up with ESPN College GameDay analyst/headress-model Lee Corso, the former Louisville and Indiana football coach.
What say you on Lee Corso, thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Previously: Bob Davie – Gary Danielson – Brent Musburger – Kirk Herbstreit – Todd Blackledge – Brandon Fisher – Brent Carney – Dan Rieffer – Rob Bromley – Alan Cutler – Kent Spencer – Dave Baker – Mary Jo Perino – Mike Cameron – Chris Cross – Dick Gabriel – Larry Glover.
