0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/7/2009
I shouldn’t date myself, but I’m going to anyway. When I was in high school, the one record album everyone had to have was Fleetwood Mac “Rumours“. Every song on that album was strong and there wasn’t a weak tune in the bunch. From the 1970’s to the mid-1980’s, this band was quite prolific. With […]
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I just finished watching Slap Shot so I figured I would give you the songs from the movie. When you think about it, not only was the movie great, but so was the soundtrack. The cast was really good starting from the late Paul Newman to Strother Martin to Jennifer Warren to a young Lindsay […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2009
Since last week was the debut of “The Adventures of Digger and Friends” on Fox’s NASCAR coverage, let’s go to one of the cartoons that probably started this whole Fox trend of using animated characters to help promote its sports properties. As a kid, I got to watch Peter Puck when NBC had the NHL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/11/2009
Time for another four episodes of B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye. Last week, I posted the first four episodes of Season 1. Time for four more. Episode 5 – In the case of “Mr. Christie and his Wandering Aperture”, Fletch (Lindy Zucker) and George (Dana Puddicombe) go undercover at Dominic Christie’s photography studio. Once there they […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/4/2009
Today, I’m going off the beaten path with the sports videos and I’m going to give some love to a web series that I’ve been following since last year. Granted, some web series are not very good and don’t deserve your attention, but this one does. It’s done with virtually no budget and from the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/28/2008
There’s no discounting the impact that Howard Cosell had on sports television in the 1970’s to the mid-1980’s. Whenever ABC had a big event, Cosell would be similar to what Bob Costas is today. He could give perspective and be called upon to interview the heavy hitters. Granted at the end of his career, Cosell […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/30/2008
I have to thank my friend, Rick Lacroix for sending me a Bill Simmons column from ESPN: The Magazine. The column describes Simmons’ favorite YouTube clip, a moment from the great 1970’s trash sports show, “Battle of the Network Stars” in which the big three networks, ABC, CBS and NBC each sent a team of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/23/2008
Ok, unless something major happens, I plan for this segment to be the last 1990’s video dance party post for a few weeks. However, I do have a lot to cover. Next week, I move onto a new subject and it’s going to quite interesting, but that’s next week. First, we do our fourth installment […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/16/2008
Ok, this is the third installment of videos of my favorite groups from the 1990’s. You can check back here and here for my previous picks. This week, Henry Rollins, the Crystal Method and a bunch more from the 1990’s. First, Henry Rollins, formerly of the 1980’s Hardcore band Black Flag went solo in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2008
Last week, I did a 1990’s Dance Party which included a lot of fun videos. Time for some more videos. I’ll start with the lovely Julianna Hatfield of Julianna Hatfield Three doing her big hit, “My Sister”. Interesting thing, Julianna doesn’t have a sister. I like the fact that this is the raw video. Here’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2008
By the time you read this on Sunday, I’ll already have gotten up way too early to bring someone to the airport and then go to work. Anyway, I told you last week that I was researching a new theme for the Videos of the Week and I do think you’ll like them. I was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/19/2008
I haven’t done a Videos of the Week feature in a while and why not bring one back this weekend? Friday night, Almost Famous played on HBO2 and it’s a movie I fell in love with. I was lucky enough to watch it when the radio station for which I worked had the premiere. Even […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2008
As we’re now into college football season, I thought I would give you various ESPN College Gameday opens. Since this came on the air back in the 1987 season when it was first hosted by Bob Carpenter, Lee Corso and Beano Cook, the show has been in the forefront of college football, but it didn’t […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/24/2008
AXN-Asia has started to air promos of the teams in advance of September 4th’s “Racers Revealed” program. I’ll post the video and I hope Sony, the owner of AXN-Asia, does not force the person who posted them at YouTube to take them down. I had posted promos of last season’s epiesodes, but was forced to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2008
Well, the International Olympic Committee has been taking down videos of the Opening Ceremonies from Beijing on YouTube due to copyright issues. Various people have lost their accounts, others have seen their videos erased while others have been outright suspended. If they chose to wait a few years, the IOC may have chosen to look […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/3/2008
This will conclude the mega-update this morning with the 3rd and final part of the Videos of the Week. These are various promos from BBC, 7 Network and NBC for the Olympics which start in five days. We start with the BBC Monkey which has already caused a buzz in the blogosphere for being one […]
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Ok, we’re in Part 2 of our Videos of the Week and we devote this installment to the 2004 Games in Athens. Again as in Part 1, we’ll depend on videos from BBC, CBC, NBC and 7 Network. Here’s a promo for Athens done by NBC. Notice the extremely attractive people posing as athletes. In […]
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With this being just five days before the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Communist China, I’ll give you various videos from the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the last Summer Games in Athens. Then I’ll give you some promos from the Olympic network partners who are getting ready to bring you this year’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/27/2008
In 1990, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 1996 Summer Olympic Games would be held in Atlanta. It would mark the first time that a Summer and Winter Olympics would not be held in the same calendar year and it would also mean that the U.S. TV network televising the games would get the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/13/2008
Last week, we gave you assorted video clips of three network’s coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Today, we’ll explore how NBC covered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. What you saw then, pales in how NBC covers the games today. Boxing had extensive coverage on NBC (something that […]
