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Press & Dakotan Sports Staff Hits The Web With New Weekly Show
BY JAMES D. CIMBUREK
james.cimburek@yankton.net
A year ago, I first started to put the broadcast portion of my mass communications degree from Mount Marty College to use, co-hosting a weekly coaches show with KYNT’s Brady Donovin. This past week, I started to use more of that degree.
On Monday, the Press & Dakotan debuted what will be a weekly webcast, a to-this-point unnamed product that featured clips from area games and commentary from myself and assistant sports editor Jeremy Hoeck about area goings-on in the sports world.
The webcast is something that Jeremy and I have bantered back and forth about for a while, but had not decided to go forward with until recently.
Part of our hesitation has been because we hadn’t been sure exactly what we wanted to do. After some discussion, we were able to figure out the direction we wanted to take the show. We want it to be a mix of highlights and commentary, not just rehashing the past but looking ahead.
We wanted to have some fun with it as well because, while sports is a business — OUR business — it’s also supposed to be fun. Jeremy and I both had fun putting it together, though I think there was about 20 minutes of oops-reel stuff for 10 minutes of commentary. (Which is why it’s not live.)
Our first effort turned out to be a 19-minute episode — a millennium in terms of web-watching. This week we’ll break that up into three or four segments to make it more user-friendly.
We will also be working on improving our “studio,” which last week was the office’s upstairs conference room. We have a few plans in the works to spruce things up a bit, and hopefully will have a little better look in the future. I don’t expect it to turn into the Upper Midwest’s version of ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption,” but I’m hoping we give people a reason to go online each Monday.
Like with anything we do, we are always looking for ideas to make it better. And, because it was our first effort, we know there is plenty of room for improvement. Feel free to check it out at spotted.yankton.net and drop me an e-mail at sports@yankton.net. While you’re there, check out all the videos and photos from area homecomings and games.
Cursed?
After a century of losing, the Chicago Cubs may have found a new “low” Thursday night, as all four starting infielders committed errors in the same game in a 10-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The setback put the Cubs down 2-0 and heading on the road, a hole only one of the first 22 teams to encounter it crawled out of.
“It wasn’t good baseball. In fact, the last two days, that’s probably been the two worst games we’ve played all year,” frustrated manager Lou Piniella said in an Associated Press game story. “It wasn’t fun to watch, I’ll tell you that.”
That one team to win three straight and extend their season, the 2001 New York Yankees. Their manager, Joe Torre, who now manages the Dodgers.
The Cubs, whose last World Series title came in 1908, have blamed everything from a black cat to a billy goat to a fan trying to catch a foul ball for their post-season woes. While some would like to blame the “curse” for their failures — one comment I saw said it was a “black billy goat named ‘Bartman’ — the Cubs have no one to blame but themselves for this one.
In game one, Ryan Dempster couldn’t find the strike zone. In game two, the team couldn’t find the ball in their glove despite having their ace, Carlos Zambrano, on the mound.
Should the Cubs come back in this one, maybe we can quit talking about supernatural occurrences and start talking about the team with the best record in the National League actually playing like they belonged in the playoffs. If they don’t, I guess we’ll hear, “Wait ‘til next year,” for the 100th year in a row.
Listen to James D. Cimburek and 1450 AM KYNT’s Brady Donovin on “Breakfast With The Coaches,” beginning at 9 a.m. today, live from Yesterday’s Cafe.
On Monday, the Press & Dakotan debuted what will be a weekly webcast, a to-this-point unnamed product that featured clips from area games and commentary from myself and assistant sports editor Jeremy Hoeck about area goings-on in the sports world.
The webcast is something that Jeremy and I have bantered back and forth about for a while, but had not decided to go forward with until recently.
Part of our hesitation has been because we hadn’t been sure exactly what we wanted to do. After some discussion, we were able to figure out the direction we wanted to take the show. We want it to be a mix of highlights and commentary, not just rehashing the past but looking ahead.
We wanted to have some fun with it as well because, while sports is a business — OUR business — it’s also supposed to be fun. Jeremy and I both had fun putting it together, though I think there was about 20 minutes of oops-reel stuff for 10 minutes of commentary. (Which is why it’s not live.)
Our first effort turned out to be a 19-minute episode — a millennium in terms of web-watching. This week we’ll break that up into three or four segments to make it more user-friendly.
We will also be working on improving our “studio,” which last week was the office’s upstairs conference room. We have a few plans in the works to spruce things up a bit, and hopefully will have a little better look in the future. I don’t expect it to turn into the Upper Midwest’s version of ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption,” but I’m hoping we give people a reason to go online each Monday.
Like with anything we do, we are always looking for ideas to make it better. And, because it was our first effort, we know there is plenty of room for improvement. Feel free to check it out at spotted.yankton.net and drop me an e-mail at sports@yankton.net. While you’re there, check out all the videos and photos from area homecomings and games.
Cursed?
After a century of losing, the Chicago Cubs may have found a new “low” Thursday night, as all four starting infielders committed errors in the same game in a 10-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The setback put the Cubs down 2-0 and heading on the road, a hole only one of the first 22 teams to encounter it crawled out of.
“It wasn’t good baseball. In fact, the last two days, that’s probably been the two worst games we’ve played all year,” frustrated manager Lou Piniella said in an Associated Press game story. “It wasn’t fun to watch, I’ll tell you that.”
That one team to win three straight and extend their season, the 2001 New York Yankees. Their manager, Joe Torre, who now manages the Dodgers.
The Cubs, whose last World Series title came in 1908, have blamed everything from a black cat to a billy goat to a fan trying to catch a foul ball for their post-season woes. While some would like to blame the “curse” for their failures — one comment I saw said it was a “black billy goat named ‘Bartman’ — the Cubs have no one to blame but themselves for this one.
In game one, Ryan Dempster couldn’t find the strike zone. In game two, the team couldn’t find the ball in their glove despite having their ace, Carlos Zambrano, on the mound.
Should the Cubs come back in this one, maybe we can quit talking about supernatural occurrences and start talking about the team with the best record in the National League actually playing like they belonged in the playoffs. If they don’t, I guess we’ll hear, “Wait ‘til next year,” for the 100th year in a row.
Listen to James D. Cimburek and 1450 AM KYNT’s Brady Donovin on “Breakfast With The Coaches,” beginning at 9 a.m. today, live from Yesterday’s Cafe.
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