When giving advice, it seems to be popular to preface it with “A wise man once said …” I’d like to know where the hell this wise man is when you need him! Now more than ever, we need more tokens of wisdom as opposed to statements of total idiocy from our public figures. One need only watch a cable news network for one hour to hear four hours worth of opinions about one sentence that came out of the mouth of some public figure. Whenever I do or say something stupid that I know I’m later going to regret, I take comfort in the fact that usually somebody has done or said something much stupider.
I am proud to say that I have never said anything as dumb some of the statements made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. I say it even though it has not ...Continue Reading
BEL AIR, Md.—The Harford Athletics Department will broadcast six basketball games this season over internet radio at SportsJuice.com, it announced Friday. Harford has also teamed with the local Harford Cable Network (HCN), which will broadcast taped men’s and women’s basketball action beginning in January.
Harford has partnered with SportsJuice.com and will bring you live play-by-play action broadcasted by Harford Director of Athletics Ken Krsolovic for four men’s games and two women’s games throughout the course of January and February. The men will be aired on Jan. 10 vs. Baltimore City, Jan. 14 vs. Allegany, Jan. 21 vs. CCBC-Dundalk, and Feb. 4 vs. Garrett, while the women will be broadcast on Jan. 27 vs. Allegany and Feb. 11 vs. Anne Arundel.
Listeners can follow the game day link on Harford’s athletics website at www.harford.edu/athletics or can navigate directly to Harford’s team page on SportsJuice.com under the Collegiate ...Continue Reading
Lately, I’ve stopped turning down the chance to do something new just because I might look foolish. It’s not that the odds of embarrassing myself have diminished; I’m as capable as ever in that department. But now that I’ve hit middle age, I’ve realized opportunities might not come around again. Plus, embarrassment isn’t fatal. Otherwise, I certainly wouldn’t have made it to middle age in the first place.
The Dagger marks its first anniversary this week. A year that has seen the birth of the future of news and entertainment reporting in this area. No, The Dagger is not the first site of its kind. The Huffington Post comes to mind, as well as others, but it is the first site based in Harford County, that I’m aware of, that continues to inform and entertain. Inform and entertain literally by the hour and sometimes by the minute!
My first exposure to the Dagger came as the Aberdeen elections were heating up this time last year. Watching the back and forth between the candidates and the comments by those same candidates and the readers made for interesting reading. I think we’re all a bit of a voyeur and watching the exchange made for great reading. But it was the power of the Web, the interaction of the readers and ...Continue Reading
I lost a friend on Sunday night. A friend that I’ve never met. A friend I had seen only briefly over the past 20 years but a friend that I’ve heard and listened to for hours on end. That friend was Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray. Skip Caray, the voice of America’s Team for the past 32 years died while napping Sunday afternoon.
You may ask why a Maryland born and bred guy like me would mourn the loss of a National League, Atlanta Braves Sportscaster. I should be following the O’s and still mourn the loss of Baltimore Broadcast icon Chuck Thompson.
For anyone within earshot, tune your radio dials to WAMD 970 AM Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. to catch Part II of The Dagger’s interview on ‘Aberdeen Happenings’ with host Mark Schlottman. We somehow managed to squeeze about 8 or 9 of us, plus a cat, into the tiny Aberdeen radio station, but couldn’t squeeze our behind-the-scenes, tell-all expose into a single half-hour radio program.
The Roundtable segment, which features former Baltimore City top cop, Maryland State Police Commissioner and convicted felon Ed Norris and super-producer Maynard rehashing the hottest stories of the week with Cindy and Mark of The Dagger, will air from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. during the show’s new afternoon drive-time radio slot.
Ed Norris, the former police commissioner of Baltimore, is angry. Seated, leaning forward with his elbows resting on the console of Baltimore’s 105.7 FM WHFS studio, he’s listening to callers to his mid-day talk-radio show. The big story this scalding August day is the fire bombing of the house of a woman in Waverly after she called the police to report drug dealers loitering by her porch. A caller is venting, incensed by the lawlessness. Leaning forward, closer to the microphone, Norris says, “I hear you buddy. Thanks for the call.”
Norris pauses a moment. The dead air trails off abruptly as Norris inflates his lungs and shouts, “I sound like a lunatic but 200 people killed already this year, witness’s fire bombed. What’s going on here? People just say, ‘Well, that’s Baltimore.’ It’s outrageous. People need to get fired up, refuse to accept it, hold the mayor and ...Continue Reading
UPDATE: Five hours ago I was sitting behind a microphone in a CBS Radio studio in Baltimore and now I’m sitting in front of a computer in my house in Jarrettsville. Having had sufficient time to process my morning radio segment on the Ed Norris Show on WHFS 105.7 FreeFM, here is how it all really went down.
First off, I got tons of support from friends and faithful Dagger readers. Here is a sampling of some of the emails pulled from The Dagger’s inbox, pre-show:
Email Guy: “I WANT TO MEET ED NORRIS…I HAVE FOLLOWED HIM SINCE HIS NYC DAYS..CAN YOU HOOK ME UP NEXT TIME YOU GO???”
Email Gal: “Did I read this correct? Are you going on the Ed Norris show?
Are you tripping? Psyche!”
Thanks for the inspiration and encouragement everybody.
One of the greatest moments of my career as a local newspaper reporter came a few days after Maryland District 7 Delegates Pat McDonough and Rick Impallaria got into a scuffle with a pro-immigration activist in an Annapolis hallway.
I was sitting at a Board of Education meeting and in a break between presentations, listening in on a hushed recounting of the incident. The board’s liaison to the state legislature was filling the school system’s second in command (a congenial guy named Ray Brown, who’s since taken another job) on details too grisly for print.
I leaned over and said, “You know the best part – when the guy pushed Pat McDonough…” and I held my hands up to show how a toupee might have been slipped halfway off (when we said we’d publish rumors, this is what we meant…Pat could very well be ...Continue Reading
