Month: April 2021
Curtis Bell; An Icon Speaks
/ | Leave a CommentA tough inside player, Bell was an integral part of the dominate run the Casa Colina Condors had in the NWBA. One of the earliest adaptive sports for disabled athletes is Wheelchair Basketball. It is easy to pinpoint the humble beginnings of this sport to the 1940s and 1950 when the sport was utilized in […]
Read more »NYC Marathon Telecast; A view from working in the booth
/ | Leave a CommentOver the course of nearly a decade I had worked in many high profile broadcast jobs. Each and every one had its own particular complexity, and NYC was no exception. As a matter of fact, this was perhaps the most high pressure environment I had worked in. This job was perhaps the pinnacle of the […]
Read more »Joey Hamilton; A life well lived
/ | Leave a CommentJoey never won a Boston Marathon, a Peachtree or any other major race on our circuit for that matter. He never raced his chair to Gold as a Paralympian either. So what was it that brought so many together on a Saturday afternoon to celebrate this mans shortened life? If it wasn’t the moments of […]
Read more »Blind Paralympic Skiing
/ | Leave a CommentBlind Paralympic Skiing 1998 Winter Park, Colorado: The Columbia Cup, Blind Skiing In 1998, ” we traveled to Winter Park, Colorado to cover athletes in their final tune up stages before leaving for the Games in Nagano, Japan. In past shows we had dedicated features on Mono or sit down and as well features on […]
Read more »Mendoza; A Racing Legend
/ | Leave a CommentThere are just not enough adjectives to describe an athlete that has represented his or her country in 6 Paralympic games. Think about that? Not many people can say that they sustained a physical peak for more than 24 years, but that is exactly what Mexican racing legend Saul Mendoza has accomplished. For those of […]
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