I need to become a soccer expert: Fast
So, I’m adding soccer play-by-play to my broadcasting resume, beginning next week, when I will work the first of several VMI men’s and women’s soccer games being broadcast on ESPN+ and the SoCon Digital Network.
I’ll also be handling the play-by-play duties on five VMI home football games this fall, the fourth season that I’ll have had that privilege.
But, never called a soccer game, which, yes, has me nervous.
It’s one thing to know a game, to write about a game, and another thing entirely to think that you can talk about it, live, to a national audience.
My next few days will involve a lot of watching soccer broadcasts with an ear to how the announcers do their jobs, then turning the volume down to do a few dry runs for the wife and our six dogs, hoping they don’t gong me out of the room for my efforts.
Wish me luck.
Interesting point about NDAs, Trump
Have to admit, hadn’t thought of this.
“There’s one big problem — because they’ve signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), even if they have heard Trump using a racial slur, they’re legally prohibited from saying so.”
This from Think Progress, laying out how you have to weigh the various defenses offered by the Trumpies on practically anything against how the Trump Organization, Trump campaign and Trump White House force everybody associated with any of them to sign NDAs as a condition of being able to work with them.
Logically, then, if you can’t disclose anything untoward about any of those entities, you couldn’t confirm, for example, that you might have heard Donald Trump use the n-word, because you’d be violating your NDA.
Which puts the TV networks who feel they have to give equal time to Trump apologists for stories like this in quite the bind.
Because, see, they have to say good things, at the risk of violating their NDAs, and even if it is bad PR to enforce an NDA for something like, did he use the n-word or not, lawyers still cost a lot of money to have to pay when you need to quash an NDA.
Not that any of the Kool-Aid drinkers would want to throw their boss under the bus.
Er, actually, yeah, the chickens are starting to come home to roost there, aren’t they?
Chris Graham is the editor of Augusta Free Press.
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