Talk the Talk -- Joe Buck's Guide to Speaking Off the Cuff

via asylum.com ( 239 Days ago )
Filed under: Entertainment, Sports, Like an Expert, How-to As the play-by-play voice for Fox's MLB and NFL broadcasts, Joe Buck is as comfortable as you can be in front of an audience sans script. His new HBO talk show "Joe Buck Live" will have the sportscaster pushing those skills in a new setting, ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Favre Interview Set In Motion Months Ago

via profootballtalk.com ( 239 Days ago )
Tonight’s live HBO interview with Brett Favre apparently isn’t an all-of-a-sudden development triggered by the retired quarterback contemplating playing for the Minnesota Vikings this fall. According to Joe Buck, who will be chatting with the former NFL Most Valuable Player tonight, the interview has been set up since April. “I called him in early April and locked him in,

Favre Will Talk To Joe Buck

via profootballtalk.com ( 240 Days ago )
Somewhere, the Botox is shooting out of Greta Van Susteren’s eyeballs. A year after getting the first exclusive sit-down with the then-soon-to-be-unretired-for-the-first-time Brett Favre, as he was angling to play for the “Minneapolis” Vikings, Van Susteren has been left in the cold. This time around, Brett will grant his first interview to Joe Buck, appearing on the

Props to Bob Costas (and Jim Kaat, Too)

via thebiglead.com ( 242 Days ago )
Bob Costas: Sure, he can be polarizing, but if anyone watched the Yankees-Red Sox game last night on the MLB Network, you had to love he and Jim Kaat relentlessly railing against how long MLB games were taking. Perhaps game length vexes he and Joe Buck greatly. Or, maybe he just really wanted to watch the NBA Finals. Either way, kudos, Bob Costas. Dustin Pedroia doesn’t need [...]

An Interview with Fox Announcer/HBO Host Joe Buck

via thebiglead.com ( 251 Days ago )
Joe Buck needs no introduction. He’s been FOX’s lead NFL announcer since 2002, and the network’s top MLB voice since 1996. Recently, HBO gave him a quarterly sports show, Joe Buck Live (premieres June 15th). He was kind enough to chat with us on the phone this morning. Q: A couple of years ago you filmed a pilot for a late-night comedy series, and now you’ve [...]

Joe Buck Flexes Comedy Chops In New Talk Show

via sportsbybrooks.com ( 253 Days ago )
It’s been over a year since we first discussed windbaggy sportscaster Joe Buck’s attempts to develop a pilot for a talk show/variety show. Sports fans mostly rolled their eyes, wondering how the NFL on FOX’s self-appointed moral authority could possibly pull off the trick of being remotely funny or entertaining. (Stand-up comedy from a stand-up guy. Or something.) Such [...]

Joe Buck Promo - feat. ALAN WONG - (video)

via ballhype.com ( 253 Days ago )
-H-B-O- Joe Buck Promo - airing May 2009Deadspin found this 5 hours ago on www.youtube.com Find more top sports news, videos, and blogs on BallHype: Other, Joe Buck

Fox, MLB : Combatting The Public’s Distaste For Joe Buck…

via cantstopthebleeding.com ( 259 Days ago )
….with a series of commercials featuring Joe Buck. At least that the prognosis supplied by the Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Futterman, reporting earlier today that Major League Baseball’s Saturday afternoon telecasts on the Fox network have suffered a 4% rattings dip compared to the same period in 2008. Fox Sports spokesman Lou D’Ermilio confirmed network [...]

Fox Sports Has Trouble Telling Black People Apart

via sportsbybrooks.com ( 262 Days ago )
After second-generation ballplayer John Mayberry, Jr. launched a home run in his second major league at-bat in today’s Phillies/Yankees game on Fox, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver lavished praise over John Mayberry, Sr. (a 14-year major leaguer) and expressed how proud he must be.  The camera lingered over a man in a World Baseball Classic Panama jersey and his two pre-teen children. (Huge [...]

Raissman: Buck takes his swings in new HBO show

via nydailynews.com ( 262 Days ago )
When BobCostas decided to take the money and run to the MLB Network, prompting HBO Sports boss Ross Greenburg to hire Joe Buck, the significance of the move was apparent. It marked a first for HBO Sports.