BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Nothing in the world is free.

Reading the feature on Lionel Messi in Sports Illustrated (May 31, 2010), author S.L. Price revealed that when the magazine asked Argentina coach Diego Maradona for an interview, the football's great's assistant replied that they'd do it for €100,000.

That reminded me of an incident several years ago while working with Solar Sports, I asked an NBA player (prior to the Finals that he was going to be playing in) if we could do an interview. His agent replied, "Sure. For $8,000 per question."

In last year's FIBA Champions Cup, some of the Iranian players said they'd only do an interview if they got paid. One of the Middle Eastern writers was miffed and cussed them in his own language.




Posted by Rick Olivares

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