Score enters its fourth football season and we have a great lineup of high school football coverage. We will closely watch the Falcons and local college teams for you as well.
• For the third straight year, Score is teaming up with 790 The Zone for the VW Friday Night Lights, a live game on the radio every Friday night. We start off this Friday in Alpharetta, as the Raiders host South Forsyth, and then will follow the next week with the big Region 6-AAAAA matchup between Roswell and Centennial. This will include previews of the game in our main section and our prep editions, as well as coverage both on our website and 790thezone.com.
• We are also partnered with Georgia Public Broadcasting and every Friday night will bring you a live game on the internet (www.gpb.org/football). We call it webcasting and will be doing games all around the state, beginning this Friday night when Marist travels over to play St. Pius X in the annual Fish Bowl. Next Friday we will be at Walton for their meeting with Kell. With GPB handling the duties in the broadcast booth and Score doing the production work, we will do 14 games leading up to the state championships at the Georgia Dome. Also, we have joined forces with GPB to give you a wide variety of web coverage of the games, which will include previews, blogging, top-10 rankings, and the ability for high school fans to upload their own photos and video.
• Beginning next week, we will also start our prep editions in Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. We will start the year covering 73 metro area schools (we started the preps three years ago with four schools). Our five editions will go into the main edition of Score in their respective counties as well at each of the schools and on scoreatl.com.
So, get ready for some great football coverage.
NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
The Olympics are over and now life can go back to normal and the Chinese government can go back to doing what it does best: making life miserable for their people. Perhaps they fooled the rest of the world, putting on quite a show and even getting most of the world’s media to believe things really have changed over there. They also were able to control the message that came out of Beijing, as it appeared that NBC was scared to death to say anything negative in any way about the country. Even Bob Costas fell for it all: in his final broadcast he sat in front of a building that had a huge photo of the former Chinese leader Mao Zedong. I also thought it was interesting when Costas said that many of the Chinese Olympic volunteers learned English and doubted if we would do such a thing (learn another county’s language) here in the United States. So, even the great Bob Costas fell for it.
The fact is, the country promised when it got the Olympics that it would improve its human rights and that foreign media would have unrestricted access. Instead, the government arrested civil rights campaigners and kept thousands of internet sites blocked. Oh, and what happened with its designated three parks for public protests? They refused to let anyone use them. The fact is, the Chinese government spent $40 billion on the Olympics (can you imagine if Atlanta would have done that; they spent $2.4 billion) and are one of the most repressive counties in the world. I read this somewhere: “Beyond the measured good will, Beijing displayed a technical proficiency in putting on the games. Buses ran on time, the city gleamed invitingly with banners and flowers and everywhere athletes, foreign journalists and tourists turned there were legions of helpful, youthful volunteers.” Hmm. Beijing sounds awfully like Berlin in 1936. And don’t forget about the government’s thirst to win medals, as I don’t think they quite followed the rules. They can say all they want about their gold-medal gymnastics team, but if He Kexin is 16 (the age required to compete in the Olympics by national gymnastics rules), then I am 25, look like Brad Pitt and can hit a baseball like Chipper Jones. Oh, and we did prevail in the medal count, taking a total of 110 medals to China’s 100, though they were first in gold medals with 51 to our 36. All I know is I am glad football season is here.
AND FINALLY
Congratulations to former 790 The Zone voice Matt Chernoff, who signed on to do 680 The Fan’s morning show with Chris Rude and Perry Laurentino. Perhaps Chernoff can help the station’s ratings, as they were buried by The Zone in the recent trend after doing well against their rivals in the last few books. By the way, make sure to tune into The Zone’s midday show with Brandon Adams and Jeff Woolverton. The pair continues to get better and the other night, at the Corky Kell Classic, I was in the booth with Adams for the Grayson-McEachern game. It was an enjoyable two hours on the air and, beyond his work in the studio, Adams has a future on the play-by-play side.
Score Atlanta will be starting a new radio show on the first Sunday of the NFL season (Sept. 7) hosted by Rosenberg. The show will go from 1-4 p.m. every Sunday on 790 The Zone and give out NFL scores every 10 minutes as well as focusing on college and high school football. Make sure to tune in. Rosenberg can be reached at ijrosenberg@scoreatl.com.
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