Cowherd, SVP and Tirico
Colin Cowherd on set.
So it's pretty quiet around here. There are lots of white male print reporters wearing bright white sneakers. There are also some better dressed white female print reporters.
Just outside the Phoenix Convention Center is the ESPN radio set, complete with real ESPN personalities sitting around outside the Hyatt/Einstein Bagels across the street. And so, for instance, you might chat with Scott Van Pelt about Maryland's basketball team (and Super Bowl cheese options), or with Mike Tirico about the FBR Open. Or with Colin Cowherd about blogs.
"We're a blog on radio," was one of the things he said to me.
"We see blogs as our allies," he added, talking about how he sends traffic to blogs and blogs reciprocate. "We are emerging media."
He said his job on radio is to have opinions, and that the medium requires him to be more theatrical than he might be in normal conversation but that he's never said anything he doesn't believe. He said nothing is off the cuff; that every part of his show is planned and every opinion is believed. He also said he's thinking about starting a blog of his own. And, with luck, he will be a special correspondent on tomorrow night's Blog Show, airing on Comcast SportsyNet.
A blogger taking a photo of a blogger taking a photo of a blogger taking a photo.
In the meantime, you literally can't walk 10 steps without walking into someone talking about how they have to blog. Pictured here is Jenny Vrentas from the Star-Ledger's party party party blog, which can be found over here. She seems to be a lot more prolific than yours truly.
(PS: For those wondering why I didn't get into a screaming match with Cowherd about Sean Taylor, let's face it, I tend to be very docile in the face of even the mildest form of celebrity.)
By Dan Steinberg |
January 28, 2008; 1:29 PM ET
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Posted by: ChiefZee | January 28, 2008 2:03 PM
Radio = emerging media. Yeah, it's right up there with the newspaper.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 28, 2008 2:06 PM
I would like to read more about this Jenny Vrentas...
Posted by: Chimpanzee Rage | January 28, 2008 2:06 PM
If SVP starts a blog, ruined doesn't even begin to describe what I'll be.
Posted by: ScottVanPeltStyle.com | January 28, 2008 2:14 PM
I wonder who took their picture first?
What I'd pay for the memory card on your cameras Dan... what I'd pay...
Posted by: smperk | January 28, 2008 2:22 PM
And is it just me, or is Cowherd making an effort to look like Zoolander in that pic?
Posted by: ScottVanPeltStyle.com | January 28, 2008 2:22 PM
Emerging a-hole, more like it.
Posted by: mikeh | January 28, 2008 2:25 PM
"We see blogs as our allies. And by that we mean we have absolutely no problems with ripping off their material and passing it as our own."
Posted by: MDT | January 28, 2008 2:28 PM
Steinberg, that was the best caption I've ever read in my life.
HAHAH
Posted by: YaYaSportsWorld.com | January 28, 2008 2:45 PM
Please mock him unmercifully on the Blog Show, Steinberg. You must.
Posted by: R.J. | January 28, 2008 2:51 PM
You know we'd miss you if you got sent to federal country club prison Steinbog, but to get that close to Cowherd and not whack him is just falling down on the job.
Posted by: NTPNate | January 28, 2008 2:52 PM
Cowherd isn't even a mild celebrity. Please, a swift kick to the balls is a must,
Posted by: JDP | January 28, 2008 4:13 PM
Yea, I think they call that look, "Douche Steel"
Posted by: TruthAboutIt.net | January 28, 2008 4:41 PM
Steinz, you're a celeb too. Your camera-blocked mug is on Vrentas' site... the blogger taking a picture of a blogger taking a picture of a blogger.
Nice. But next thing you know, people will be asking for your autograph. Or rummaging through your trash. The hazards of fame and celebrity.
Posted by: Grooven | January 28, 2008 4:44 PM
SHAME ON YOU, STEINZ!
MINGLING WITH THE ENEMY~!
Posted by: newark | January 28, 2008 11:41 PM
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Disappointed in you Dan, you shoulda kicked Cowherd in the jimmies.