Coming to the end

Well... as we come to my last two weeks of internship at CSN,  I am definitely running out of things to post. My advisor is coming in today for her last visit.  I'm kinda sad that the end is coming.

Mary and myself have started the PhotoShop Friday tradition.  We have even started to illustrate other posts throughout the week.  Last week we returned to the Photoshop Friday roots and produced a few more pictures. The pictures have become very popular with the fans.  This past week week we created Christmas cards from the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots.

I have gotten so comfortable her.  I'm so happy everyone welcomed me with open arms.  

All over CSN

Well, there is only a month left for me here as an intern at CSN.  Its kinda sad.  BUT!  Today has been a fun filled day in the newsroom.  Once we started "Photoshop Friday" last week, we had to keep it going this week.  So... we did, and I got my name on the web site!!  Here it is... MOVEMBER MANIA!

Also, I made my first ever television appearance!  Well... I was more like a prop...  but I was on TV.

A quick one...

So, Rajon Rondo absolutely posterized Chris Bosh during the game last night.  Mary Paoletti had a vision... "Chris Bosh looks like he is praying!"  After we were looking at hilarious photoshopping throughout the morning, we decided we should try.  So... we came up with THIS! It was her idea, I helped bring it to life. 

Running the Show... Part 2

As my readers know, the Randy Moss saga has plagued my internship from virtually the beginning.  Throughout my time here, Randy Gene has complained about his contract, got traded to Minnesota, returned to New England for a game, got released from the Vikings, then the final step (or so we think) of his 2010 journey occurred on the day Art could not come in.

Throughout the day, I had to deal with the Villanueva/Garnett fiasco (see part 1) then at 4:00 pm eastern time, we would find out where Randy Moss would land.  Is anyone familiar with the waiver system?  Basically, every team in the league got a chance to pick up the wayward wide-out, starting with the worst team in the league and moving its way up the ranks.

It was my responsibility to keep track of the waiver process to see where Moss lands.  It was very tense in the newsroom, because everyone wanted to see where he landed

It was a huge day for me, I handled heavier duty than I did all semester long.  There was a whole lot of pressure on my shoulders, I think I pulled it off. 

Running the Show... Part 1

It was a cold Wednesday morning.  I come into Comcast headquarters not knowing what a huge day it would be for me.  It was business as usual for me as I sit down and start searching for potential news stories.  My phone begins to vibrate out of control... it was Art.  Due to a personal matter he could not come in.  No biggie, I hold down the fort on Fridays with Mary all the time.  The thing is, it was Wednesday, I was the only person working the web site.  It had to be an eventful day...


So, I was searching for news stories when I see these tweets by Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva (Below).  On Tuesday night the Boston Celtics dismantled the Pistons.  Villanueva claims that Celtic Kevin Garnett said he looked like a 'cancer patient.'  For anyone who is not familiar with Villanueva, he has a disease called Alopecia universalis which causes him to not have any hair on his head. 

A backlash began after Villanueva revealed this on his Twitter page.  The backlash hurt both sides.  Garnett, one of the leagues biggest trash talkers, was accused of crossing the line.  He then released a statement about the incident.


“I am aware there was a major miscommunication regarding something I said on the court last night.  My comment to Charlie Villanueva was in fact ‘You are cancerous  to your team and our league.’  I would never be insensitive to the brave struggle that cancer patients endure.  I have lost loved ones to this deadly disease and have a family member currently undergoing treatment.  I would never say anything that distasteful.  The game of life is far bigger than the game of basketball.”

Because of the whole episode, I got to write this.  Trying to keep the fans up to date on the whole situation I created a short article and continue to develop the page every time more information came into the newsroom.

I'm still on the fence about who to believe in this whole situation.  I honestly don't believe that Garnett would develop an extremely eloquent sentence while on the court like, "I personally don't think you are a very good basketball player."  At the same time, Villanueva needs to keep what happens on the court on the court.  What happens between the lines is part of the game.  Trash talking is part of the game, and always will be.

This whole thing is just another reason why Twitter is a great, but dangerous tool.

This whole episode was a rapidly progressing throughout the day.  As more and more information began to pour in about the incident, so did comments from sports writers and bloggers from across the nation.  The criticism was mostly landing on Villanueva, who took the game away from the court.  Even Mary Paoletti could not support her fellow UConn alumni.

Nonetheless, it was my job for the afternoon to keep track of the saga.  Just remember kiddies, the internet is a powerful tool.  Whether it is something that you want to spread, or something you don't, you put it on the internet -- it will come back to haunt you.

That rounds out the first part of my day.  When I get a second, I will write about the second half of my day.  It was much more interesting... much more interesting.  Stay tuned.  

Haven't posted in a while...

Well, it has been a little while since I have posted.  I have been a busy young man.  As I was before, I am still comfortable here and am still loving every moment.  I mean, how can I not love chatting with sports experts all day?  A couple things of note have happened to me over the past couple of weeks.

Once again, my Photoshop knowledge has helped show my versatility to my co-workers.  The past couple Wicked Good Sports posts, Mary has learned that she can turn to me if she needs some help with creating anything in photoshop.  So, I helped he with two little things, like in her LeBron James post, and her Halloween Post.

Then, I made my first ever appearance (sorta) on CSN programming!  The new Web Zone set is in the middle of the news floor.  Putting it simply, the set gets in the way on a busy day.  So, some times people don't realize that they are taping and accidentally walk through the set.  One day, Sherrod Blakely was taping a segment as one of the PR people began to approach the set at a high rate of speed.  I tried to stop her, but she went right through with no problem.  I was then enlisted to play body guard for the rest of the take.  On this weeks "Unfiltered", the weekly blooper reel, the whole ordeal was caught on camera.  So, you can check it out.  (Its the one titled 'Unfiltered'  from October 25, 2010.  You might have to scroll down or go to the previous page depending on when you read this.)

Well, that's it for this post.  I can't believe how quickly these past couple months have gone by.  I only have a month and a half left.  I really don't want to leave.

Can You Smell It?

Well, I can smell college basketball in the air.  Art has been telling me for weeks that a tough task has been approaching.  So I was ready.  The tough task arrived on Thursday.  He apologized, as he has done a couple times before handing off tough tasks to me.

As college basketball approaches Art needs to know when many New England colleges play their games so we can easily keep track of them.  The task that was handed off to me to make a master list of all these schedules.  According to Art, this job took the previous intern a week and a half to finish.  I didn't cower in fear, I just got to work. 

Throughout the day I got in a considerable groove, I had more than half of the schedules done... so I asked Art if I was doing it correctly.  I was not only doing it correctly, he was thoroughly impressed by the pace I set over the first half.  Needless to say, I went back to work after checking in with him.

As the day began to come to a close, I finished the master schedule and sent it his way.  That's right readers, I finished what has been known as a weeks worth of work in about 6 hours.  And it was done correctly.  It was an accomplishment I was very proud of.  I take great pride in the work I do, and I know Art and the rest of the staff notices it.