Documentary footage of the outspoken heavyweight is layered with a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court, back when the champ refused to answer the draft...

2013

Aug

LABOR DAY WEEKEND KICKS OFF WITH COLLEGE FOOTBALL: TV IN THE RAH-RAH By Gerald Jordan

Even with temperatures reaching nearly 100 degrees in some places, the indisputable fact is that autumn is here. How so? College football season means that autumn is here...

2012

Dec

THE BOWLS RUNNETH OVER By Gerald Jordan

College football reached the tipping point on bowls a few years ago. It’s now ridiculous, and it’s not just the funny names. It’s the numbing number of bowls...

2012

Oct

DAY OF DIVERSITY OFFERS A REASON TO MIX IT UP By Gerald Jordan

Television producers are introducing audiences to the fact that a growing segment of the U.S. population is multiracial families...

2012

Sep

'LAST RESORT' PACKS A PUNCH By Gerald Jordan

Last Resort is a delicious serving of 21^st century righteous indignation, with Andre Braugher as an outraged sub commander with nukes at his disposal...

2012

Sep

'ELEMENTARY' IS ANYTHING BUT ELEMENTARY By Gerald Jordan

Elementary, the latest incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective Sherlock Holmes, has enough potential to move the needle to wow...

2012

Jul

GET READY FOR 5,535 HOURS OF OLYMPICS COVERAGE By Gerald Jordan

The network that has broadcast the summer Olympics since 1988 is about to launch an ambitious plan to show every event in the upcoming London Olympic Games in real time...

2012

Jun

CEDRIC TURNS ON THE CHARM IN 'THE SOUL MAN' By Gerald Jordan

Even though the setting is inescapably familiar, with a few stock-character church ladies thrown in for good measure, TV Land's Hot in Cleveland spin-off, The Soul Man, shows promise...

2012

Apr

PBS'S 'JESSE OWENS' A WINNING TRIBUTE By Gerald Jordan

Jesse Owens was a flawed hero whose record-setting exploits in track took him to the 1936 Olympics, yet still did not shield him from racism. On Tuesday, PBS's American Experience tells his story...

2012

Apr

HOLY GROUND: FOR GOLF FANS, IT'S AUGUSTA NATIONAL AND THE MASTERS By Gerald Jordan

This is holy week. Notice the lower case spelling: that's because it's holy week for golf...executives at ESPN and CBS are praying that millions flock to their TV sets over the next three days to witness golf's greatest show, The Masters...

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Gerald Jordan

Gerald B. Jordan is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas. Earlier in his career, he was a respected, unusually well-dressed TV critic for the Kansas City Star.

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