10-23-2017, 02:17 PM
(10-23-2017, 01:45 PM)unclechuck link Wrote:I thought Dufresne did a great job for Pac 8/10/12 while with the LA Times, and I occasionally posted links to his articles here. I've been full up on his site since it started last year. At $20 for a full year, it's a great value: quality writing by four old school sports guys with regional preferences. They added Tony Barnhart this Fall to get a real SEC/ACC guy, so now have Eastern, Midwest & Southwest, Southeast, and Pacific/West areas of focus, with Dufresne covering the latter and acting as ringmaster.
During football season each guy contributes 3-4 articles per week almost exclusively on college football. College hoops season maybe only 2-3 per week, and maybe less during spring & summer depending on spring ball activity. Occasionally they'll drift off on to Cubs, Red Sox, Olympics or NCAA riffs/rants which are consistently enjoyable, as are their frequent rambles from their multiple decades of covering the games. And:
NO COMMERCIALS / ADS / OR EMBEDDED VIDEO!!
I'll sign up if they offer month-to-month. It's so refreshing listening to their podcast -- as you say, old school folks, no irritating Millennial speech patterns, and no transparent homerism.