I also can't take "sliders" seriously because I know Navy personnel long used the term to mean a regular hamburger served in the ship's galley, one that "goes down easily." (Much like your average school cafeteria burger.)

But $ale of the Century not only lasted only half an hour, but let us admire the lovely Summer Bartholomew!

Having taught a first amendment law seminar the last 15 years, the Hustler/Falwell case is always fun to walk the students through. Especially when I add the postscript that Falwell and Flynt ended up becoming friends and would appear together at panels and such, or that Falwell would drop in to see Flynt when he was…

Yeah, this pretty much summarizes why "innocent" bothered me.

If Happy Days comes on and the theme song is "Rock Around the Clock," I stay tuned. If it's the Gimbel/Fox "Happy Days" song, I'll probably not stay tuned.

With me it's seeing the late-70s/early-80s "radio flyer" markings on the little red wagon in the toy window at Higbee's. I dearly love that movie, but that little visual detail momentarily destroys the illusion for me.

Longtime rule (enforced by AP Stylebook) was that writers use "innocent" rather than "not guilty." There were libel concerns about if the "not" in "not guilty" somehow got deleted, and using "innocent" was considered safer. AP changed the rule sometime around 2004 and now sanctions "not guilty" but reminds writers and…

The Lindbergh case was also one of the first to be covered from beginning to end by broadcast media. One of the saddest and most haunting aspects: after the baby was kidnapped, the recipe for the baby's formula was read on the air just in case the kidnappers were listening, or in case anyone found the child.

"Happiness is the moment before you need more happiness." - Don Draper

As someone who was raised on Ruth's pimento cheese spread (and uses the hell out of her Food Lion MVP Card), I'd love to see that happen.

Which explains the casting of the eccentric Dr. Harrison Schmitt and the lovable Ron Evans character.

It's from the Ed Gein collection.

Jack Buck was the kind of guy who, when a great moment happened, knew to be understated, then quiet, and let the scene tell itself. What soured me on Joe was the need to inject his own overstated drama into moments that were already dramatic. When Mark McGwire broke the Roger Maris record Joe kept yammering away with…

The Block & Tackle description of Phil Simms as "CBS's towheaded galoot" is one of my favorite things ever.

Although the reverential tone is more or less mandated by the Augusta National Golf Club as part of the broadcast package (hell, the club had Jack Whitaker booted from the coverage back in the day by referring to the spectators - oh, I'm sorry, "patrons" - as a "mob"). The club doesn't need the revenue and could…

I find Buck tolerable for football. His baseball work is another story.

I once knew someone who was a network sports producer and he talked about how the gimmicks that we thought silly (the Fox dancing robot, the stupid animated gopher during the NA$CAR races, etc.) were really popular and helped bring revenue. I wish I'd had the presence of mind back then to tell him "well, maybe if your…

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If only they'd included "military-grade" in there somehow.

Ralphie Parker was right all along: "A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!"