Another Masters’ week has come and gone. Trevor Inmelman is your new champion. Tiger Woods could not sink any puts all week. Some times I think Tiger over analyze things. It’s just remarkable to think that Tiger played his B game this week and was still the runner-up. ESPN in its first year of coverage of the first two rounds did a great job. This was because it was out of their hands. CBS produced the telecast and their announcers did the broadcast. ESPN only had to supply the host for the show. As the host Mike Tirico did a good job of setting the stage and providing the context and history of the Masters’. CBS also did a great job as usually. They have broadcast the Masters’ since 1956; it is the second longest relationship in sports TV; ABC has coved the Indy 500 one year longer. Jim Nantz, of CBS has been the host of both March Madness and The Masters’, for at least the past dozen years, is better suited for Golf than Basketball in my opinion. His does a better job of setting the scene in golf and his down home style fits golf better. But, saying that, you know it’s a big event when he says “Hello again friends.”
The big event this coming weekend is the 112th Boston Marathon on Monday. The Marathon is a great community event in that most of the 20,000 runners are running to raise money for a variety of charities. The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest marathon. One of the facts about the marathon that you might not know is; the runners have first qualify by running in an IAAF sanctioned marathon within a regulated time frame for their age group. Besides the Olympic trials and the Olympic marathons, Boston is the only major American marathon that requires a qualifying time. Thus for many marathoners to qualify for Boston is a goal and achievement in itself, making it a "people's Olympic event." One of the great traditions of Boston is the wheelchair division. Boston was the frist Marathon to have a wheelchair division and it started in 1975. Now, most of the world’s major Marathons have a wheelchair division.
Talk to you next week as the NBA Playoffs begin.
That’s my take: I would like to hear your’s.
Jamie Lazaroff
The big event this coming weekend is the 112th Boston Marathon on Monday. The Marathon is a great community event in that most of the 20,000 runners are running to raise money for a variety of charities. The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest marathon. One of the facts about the marathon that you might not know is; the runners have first qualify by running in an IAAF sanctioned marathon within a regulated time frame for their age group. Besides the Olympic trials and the Olympic marathons, Boston is the only major American marathon that requires a qualifying time. Thus for many marathoners to qualify for Boston is a goal and achievement in itself, making it a "people's Olympic event." One of the great traditions of Boston is the wheelchair division. Boston was the frist Marathon to have a wheelchair division and it started in 1975. Now, most of the world’s major Marathons have a wheelchair division.
Talk to you next week as the NBA Playoffs begin.
That’s my take: I would like to hear your’s.
Jamie Lazaroff
