Comment: NBC’s Olympics and celebrity crush is weak

Comment: NBC's Olympics and celebrity crush is weak

A few days into the competition in Paris, sporting glory isn’t the only topic dominating NBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics. The celebrity, in the form of famous faces watching from the stations, reporting from the sidelines and shining from the studio, has reached the level of Olympic frustration for the network. Tracy … Read more

Comment: New independent sports-related schools raise questions

An Independence player leaves the field as Davenport Assumption celebrates their victory in the Class 3A Semi-finals of the Iowa High School State Baseball Tournament at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City on Wednesday July 20, 2022. (Cliff Jette/Freelance for the gazette)

An Independence player leaves the field as Davenport Assumption celebrates their victory in the Class 3A Semi-finals of the Iowa High School State Baseball Tournament at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City on Wednesday July 20, 2022. (Cliff Jette/Freelance for the gazette) The changes in youth sports since the 1970s are as dramatic as the … Read more

Comment: New independent sports-related schools raise questions

An Independence player leaves the field as Davenport Assumption celebrates their victory in the Class 3A Semi-finals of the Iowa High School State Baseball Tournament at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City on Wednesday July 20, 2022. (Cliff Jette/Freelance for the gazette)

An Independence player leaves the field as Davenport Assumption celebrates their victory in the Class 3A Semi-finals of the Iowa High School State Baseball Tournament at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City on Wednesday July 20, 2022. (Cliff Jette/Freelance for the gazette) The changes in youth sports since the 1970s are as dramatic as the … Read more