Bryan Curtis
The Ringer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Past articles by Bryan:
NFL Media Training Camp 101
Fifteen essential rules for how football is covered in the summer → Read More
John Madden Was America’s Greatest Football Teacher
Madden, who died Tuesday at the age of 85, made a generation of football fans smarter → Read More
How to Be a Sports Radio Host With Ryen Russillo
Bryan Curtis talks to the Ringer podcast about his career path → Read More
Meet the Man Who Makes Your Favorite Announcer Sound Smarter
Sports fans have been led to believe that the broadcast booth is typically occupied by just two people—play-by-play announcer and former player analyst. But there’s more happening inside the booth than we see. → Read More
MegaCasts, ‘Madden,’ and the McGloin: The Potentially Exciting Future of Sports on TV
The COVID-19 crisis has grounded sports producers for two months, offering them a rare chance to stop and think about what we see. They have some wild ideas that just might reshape the way we watch games on TV. → Read More
How the NFL Draft Turned Into the Quarantine Super Bowl
When football’s annual event arrives on Thursday, it will be received by a desperate, sports-hungry audience. Here’s how ESPN and the rest of sports media is preparing for it. → Read More
How Sports Radio Hosts Became America’s Grief Counselors
Longtime broadcasters like Mike Francesa and Paul Finebaum have shifted their shows to reflect the coronavirus pandemic. And they’re making their audiences rethink how they see the world. → Read More
With No Baseball, FanGraphs Is in Peril. It Won’t Be the Last Sports Media Operation to Face Hard Times.
Why the next few months are going to be a disastrous professional period for sportswriters → Read More
How Tom Brady and the Patriots Launched a Generation of Sports Media Stars
As the QB heads to Tampa Bay, he leaves behind dozens of reporters and pundits who got their start chronicling the NFL’s 21st-century dynasty → Read More
What Do We Do Now? Sports Media Ponders the Coronavirus.
Writers and broadcasters leapt to action last week as COVID-19 struck the world of sports. But with no games on the horizon, what will happen to the journalists who surround those games? → Read More
Jimmy Garoppolo’s Sad Super Bowl Blues
The 49ers quarterback had history at his fingertips … and he overthrew the pass → Read More
Welcome to Radio Row, the Super Bowl’s Carnival of Celebrity Promoters
Whether it’s weed products or boner pills, the sports world’s greatest native ad is selling something in the week leading into the main event → Read More
Why ESPN Picked Booger for ‘Monday Night Football’
The NFL’s flagship broadcast hasn’t had an African American analyst in the booth in decades. But now, Booger McFarland has ditched the BoogerMobile and ascended to sports broadcasting’s penthouse suite. → Read More
How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann’s ‘SportsCenter’ Changed TV Forever
Upon the 40th anniversary of ESPN, we revisit Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the wisecracking anchors whose "Big Show" revolutionized sports broadcasting and late night TV → Read More
We’re Covering Joe Biden Like He’s an Aging Quarterback
Biden isn’t Tom Brady or Brett Favre. He’s more like the Tony Romo of politics, a guy whose big mistakes threaten to overshadow his talent. But Biden’s narrative arc and an aging quarterback’s are exactly the same. → Read More
Can Bowling Win Over the ‘Lebowski’ Generation?
Fox Sports is certainly betting on it. And it just might have the stars to make it work. → Read More
Kendrick Perkins and the Making of an NBA Talking Head
In the player empowerment era, we need someone who can explain the players who run the league—who can tell us not just what they’ll do but how they feel. Say hello to Big Perk. → Read More
ESPN Just Decided to Stop Sponsoring Sportswriting’s Most Prestigious Prize. Why?
After years of handing out PEN America’s literary award, the Worldwide Leader has decided to discontinue its partnership. What does that mean for the future of writing at the company? → Read More
The Iowa Reporter Working the Nick Nurse Beat at the NBA Finals
The whole world is covering Warriors-Raptors. The New York Times. ESPN. And … the Carroll Times Herald? Here’s why these Finals are so important to a small burg in Iowa. → Read More
“The Bane of My Existence”: U.K. Sportswriting’s Access Crisis
British journalists chronicling mega-events like the Champions League are often operating on a timeline out of their control and with little access to players, publishing stories well after they’ve been reported. Could this be the dark future of U.S. sports coverage? → Read More