Chris Lincoln was sports director at KTUL in Tulsa from 1974 to 1981. This week that station's management announced he would return to that position after a 25 year hiatus. Lincoln founded Winner Communications, Inc. and has been a big-time player in sports production companies, especially the horse racing industry, where he has been ESPN's chief race announcer, since he left Channel 8.
This will be cool. Lincoln was "my" sports guy during my formative sports years -- high school and college. He's the one who stole away the Oklahoma Football playback show from Oklahoma City stations and created the informative but hilarious Larry Lacewell television show on Saturday mornings. I'm really looking forward to what he will do now, in what is probably a psuedo-retirement job for Chris.
The publisher of the McCall, Idaho Star News has come up with a neat listing of what he calls a "Brief Guide" to the newspapers of America. Take a look:
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3.The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but really don't understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country - if they could find the time- - and if they didn't have to leave southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country...or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
From the "hypocrisy" is an unspoken word in Washington department: Here's an excerpt from Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who in 1993 was strongly advocating the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Somalia:
An example:
"For us to get into nation building, law and order, etc., I think is a tragic and terrible mistake….To think that somehow the United states will suffer a loss to our prestige and our viability as far as the number one superpower in the world I think is baloney.... What can erode our prestige…I”ll tell you what can hurt our viability as the world superpower and that is if we enmesh our selves in a drawn out situation which entails the loss of American lives…," McCain said.
Of course that was when the president was a Democrat. When the president is a Republican, McCain is all for nation building and keeping American military forces at risk at any cost. Eg., Iraq.
I'm sure there are examples of Democratic leaders who have been equally guilty of checking out the color of the party jersey before deciding which team is "right"; but aren't we tired of this?
Chris Lincoln was sports director at KTUL in Tulsa from 1974 to 1981. This week that station's management announced he would return to that position after a 25 year hiatus. Lincoln founded Winner Communications, Inc. and has been a big-time player in sports production companies, especially the horse racing industry, where he has been ESPN's chief race announcer, since he left Channel 8.
