Leading roles for minority actors remain scarce, but this TV season brought some major achievements for network programming and the advertisers who support them...

2014

Dec

NEW COLLEGE BOWL SYSTEM: GERALD JORDAN EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU By Gerald Jordan

Finally, a college football season will settle bar arguments around the country…or will it?...

2014

Oct

WORLD SERIES: SMALL MARKET STEAL By Gerald Jordan

When the Giants take the diamond at Kauffman Stadium in the No. 31-sized U.S. TV market, there’s a good chance that many of the casual baseball fans – count them by the millions in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles – might opt out...

2014

Sep

STILL TEED OFF ABOUT SUPERIOR EUROPEAN GOLFERS? GET UP EARLY TO WATCH RYDER CUP REMATCH By Gerald Jordan

Golf fans can see the Ryder Cup tee off at 2:30 a.m. EDT Friday. Do it and try to get to work Friday morning. I dare you...

2014

Sep

ABC'S 'BLACK-ISH' TACKLES A TV TOPIC THAT'S TRICKY-ISH By Gerald Jordan

Thirty years after NBC's The Cosby Show introduced 34 million American homes to a well-to-do African-American family, ABC wants to up the ante with the new comedy black-ish...

2014

Aug

IF IT'S LABOR DAY WEEKEND, IT MUST BE COLLEGE FOOTBALL KICKOFF TIME By Gerald Jordan

The only absent element is a crisp autumn breeze. Otherwise, the kickoff to the 2014 college football season is upon us...

2014

Jul

BRITISH OPEN: A TEST OF GOLF SKILLS... AND A BEATLES POP QUIZ By Gerald Jordan

It’s half past The Open Championship and dramatic tales abound: Cinderfellas, Les Miserables, Aesop’s Fables and many others...

2014

Jul

THE LATEST BRITISH INVASION FROM LIVERPOOL: TIGER WOODS, WITH LONG ODDS By Gerald Jordan

Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake last presented The Open in 2006, when the golfer known worldwide by one name – Tiger – won. This year is different. Royal Liverpool is surprisingly green, and Tiger is covered in rust...

2014

Jun

RUSTY TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT: WOODS IS BACK, AND GOLF TV IS THRILLED By Gerald Jordan

A rusty Tiger Woods is better than no Tiger Woods at all. For 109 days, golf fans have awaited word from on high. Will he return this year? Will he ever return? And those are just the network bosses...

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