I married into a family of late sleepers. I am the only adult awake in a house with 4 kids (3 under the age of 5) running wild. Send help.
Mark May is in South Bend for the College Football Hall of Fame ceremony and golf tournament. Today he gets inducted.
All but one day at Pitt was spent on the offensive line.
“When (head coach) Jackie Sherrill recruited me, he promised me I could play defense,” May said. “My first day as a freshman, I was on defense. One day. The next day, they switched me to the offensive line. At least he lived up to his promise.”
He talked a little about how and when he got his start in TV.
“My college years were so great because of the opportunities to bond with my teammates,” May said. “Pittsburgh was a special (school) in a special city. The people there cared about you. I was able to learn so much from the alums.”
It was also the place where he got his start in television. He got to know a sports director at the ABC affiliate. He convinced May to get involved in television before he graduated. When May was chosen by the Redskins, that sports director convinced the head of sports at the ABC station in Washington to hire May.
That training was followed by post-football jobs with TNT and CBS before finally landing at ESPN about five years ago.
Pitt fans would appear to be the exception among college football blogdom (writers and readers) in liking May on ESPN’s College Football studio show. Much the way ND partisans are the exception towards seeing Lou Holtz there.
The Arizona Cardinals, technically one of the oldest NFL franchises, have decided they need their own “Ring of Honor.” During today’s exhibition game against the Steelers, the late, great Marshall Goldberg will be one seven players and Bidwell, Sr. placed in the ring during halftime (PDF).
All fans in attendance will receive a commemorative Cardinals Stadium lanyard/ticketholder.
Ooooh. Well, there are the cheerleaders at least.
Perhaps he should be spending his time (and he has a lot of it) getting some instruction on broadcast journalism. We all know he could use it.
He constantly went back and forth with Mark May. IT was very apparent that he felt inadequate aroud Mark May.
His constant gloating of those Nebraska teams made Mark May’s occassional mention of PITT seem incidental at best.
Trev Albert should spend less time complaining about Mark May and more time trying to reinvent himself to the networks. Loser!