by snarly | Jan 22, 2014 | Apology Essentials, Media Apologies, Sports Apologies
SorryWatch was down for techie reasons unclear to your tech-clueless hosts. It’s back now. So here are a couple of news stories we coulda-shoulda-woulda weighed in on earlier. 1. The case of Lisa Bonchek Adams, Twitter and the Kellers. The must-read summary is...
by sumac | Jan 7, 2014 | Sports Apologies
A fight among football fans at the Sugar Bowl, posted on Youtube, became a hit. It featured a zestfully furious Alabama fan eluding her husband’s grasp and leaping upon some fans of the team she was not rooting for (Oklahoma). When she was restrained, she kicked...
by sumac | Nov 4, 2013 | Sports Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Climber Joe Kinder was mapping out a new climbing route in the Sierra Nevada. The location was “an underground crag in the Tahoe region of California.” (Here “underground” does not mean he was spelunking. It means secret, known only to insiders.) Kinder’s a...
by sumac | Jul 16, 2013 | Sports Apologies
Bad apologies came sailing out of this year’s Wimbledon. So many bad apologies, that even leaving out Serena Williams’s apology for her remarks about the Steubenville rape case (because no tennis was involved), we didn’t know how we’d get up to...
by sumac | Jun 16, 2013 | Sports Apologies
After the Boston Marathon bombing, the motto “Boston Strong” caught on across the country as people used it to express support. Later, some Boston sports fans started applying it to hometown teams. When the Boston Bruins played Toronto’s Maple Leafs in May,...
by snarly | Jun 3, 2013 | Sports Apologies
I’m the old person. If you are old too, here’s Jay Smooth’s four-year-old explanation of this expression: Dan Devine at Yahoo! Sports addresses a current “no homo” controversy very well, so go read his entire piece. Summary: On Sunday,...
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