Awful Announcing
"In my excitement to defend the Knicks on live TV today, I inadvertently insinuated about Knicks personnel. I look forward to working with Knicks management to elevate the great Knicks brand moving forward."
The Knicks are probably right that they didn't actually offer Richard Jefferson a contract in 2018, but trying to correct Jefferson's on-air claim brought them a lot more negative attention.
"While the Internet debates whether or not this is true, we wanted to make sure that when you need to go, you can go with dignity."
A full retraction of a statement Luhnow and the Astros have already called "wrong" and "incorrect" would seemingly be easy, but they haven't committed to doing that.
Luhnow and the Astros are still digging themselves deeper.
Three days after insisting Taubman's comments weren't directed at particular reporters, the Astros have changed their tune.
NPR's David Folkenflik reported Tuesday that contrary to statements from Houston Astros' assistant GM Brandon Taubman and from the team, Taubman was targeting a specific female reporter who'd tweeted about domestic violence.
"We’re taking away ‘OTL’s’ linear half-hour daily presence and expanding it. If you compare that 30 minute weekday show from 1-1:30 to the amount of impressions that I’m going to get, we’re going to impact more people."
"Basketball questions only" was a bad look here.
Wyllie was involved in a whole lot of headlines over the years, including breaking up on-field interviews, sending statements that proved completely false, and comparing Daniel Snyder's lawsuit against The Washington City Paper to the Arab Spring protests.
Contacting a site to demand that one of their writers take down a tweet doesn't seem like the best way to prove that you can handle critical media coverage, but that's what Cubs' VP (communications and community affairs) Julian Green did.
Weber Shandwick billed Michigan State $517,343 in January, more than the school paid football coach Mark Dantonio or basketball coach Tom Izzo that month.
