DOG ASIDE: USA Network was an active player in live televised boxing during the Golden Age of Boxing (1964 – 1999)….especially with their Saturday Night At The Fights program….featuring their boxing broadcast team of Al Albert (brother of legendary sportscaster Marv Albert) and Randy Gordon….who grew up around the fight game in New York City. This USA Boxing Special…
DOG ASIDE: It seems to us at ImaSportsphile that CBS Sports has been bringing the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament forever….but they actually out-bid NBC for the rights to the tournament in 1982….and have been bringing March Madness to America and the world every year since then. This CBS special Road to the Final Four was aired on…
DOG ASIDE: During the 1985 Texas Longhorn football season….two very talented freshman running backs….Eric Metcalf and Charles Hunter….of whom this interview seen herewith features. Eric Metcalf would finish his Longhorn career after making the All-SWC Team three years in a row….while winning the 1987 SWC Player of the Year Award ….after which he got drafted…
DOG ASIDE: HBO always put on a great fight telecast….which not only included some fantastic fights during the Golden Age of Boxing (1964 – 1999)….but also featured some of the best Pre-fight Shows and Post-fight Interviews….as they showcased some of the very best “boxer profiles” produced in all of sports….for this video provides evidence to that fact….with…
DOG ASIDE: The 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics provided some wonderful highs and disheartening lows….which is typical of any Olympic Games…..for the talent is so expansive….causing the challenges to be greater and the risks to be higher. The figure skating pairs competition short program at these 1988 Calgary Games certainly provided one of these wonderful…
DOG ASIDE: In and around Austin, Texas….the Live Music Capital of the World….there is one man who not only fills the house with “roadhouse blues” fans….but fills the house full of beautiful women that like to dance….and that my friends is Delbert McClinton….as he has been doing so for a very long time now. We at ImaSportsphile…
DOG ASIDE: This NBC Pregame Show for the 1985 NFL AFC Divisional Championship between the New England Patriots vs. Los Angeles was hosted by the NFL ’85 crew of Bob Costas, Ahmad Rashad and Pete Axthelm….along with their legendary broadcast team of Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen. As a side note, the sports world lost…
DOG ASIDE: There is not a better precision military marching band anywhere in the world that even comes close to comparing with The Fightin’ Aggie Band….as the members the Army Corp Band at Texas A & M University perform sophisticated military march steps, turns and formations while playing rousing music marches every weekend at Aggie football…
DOG ASIDE: Every now and then in everyone’s life come a moment that brings “a sweet joyful feeling” deep down inside of the soul….and this video does that for me….for this is a very endearing video that just makes you “really like” Smokin Joe Frazier. First and foremost, as a Sportsphile, what is there to not like…