Plain Dealer: Sports Public Relations

If you ever wanted proof that all publicity is not god publicity?

Cleveland sports columnist Bud Shaw of The Plain Dealer takes a look at the actions of LeBron James, Albert Haynesworth, Jim Gray and others and questions their motives of their weakest career moments. This column isn't likely to make the pages of the PRSA newsletter, but worth a chuckle or two.

However, I continue to wonder how diluted one's mind must be to do what these gentleman have done and then think  no wrong has even been done. Even after working in sports for a number of years, I still find this hard to comprehend.

Comment: Scott Van Pelt on ESPN's Sports Center

ESPN/Sports Center anchor Scott Van Pelt asked this question to ESPN's NBA Insider Chris Broussard when discussing the breaking news that NBA star LeBron James is planning to announce which team he will sign with on Thursday night on ESPN:

"In this age we live in - LeBron's now got a Twitter account, we tweet, we blog, we never stop churning out the news cycle. How likely will this [his news conference] remain a secret until Thursday at 9 EST?"

I think it was more a comment then a question. Either way, the answer is "Not very likely"