Awful Announcing

Awful Announcing

Infobox Website
name = Awful Announcing
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url = http://www.awfulannouncing.com/
commercial = Yes
type = Blog
registration = Optional
owner = Brian Powell
author = Brian Powell
launch date = May 16, 2006
current status = Active
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Awful Announcing is an independent Sports Blog written by Maryland native and James Madison University graduate, Brian Powell. Powell got his start in the Sports World as an intern for the Women's United Soccer Association Philadelphia Charge and went onto work for the Washington Wizards in early 2004. Powell then moved into marketing for a large Homebuilder in the Washington DC Area before starting the website in May of 2006. In early 2007 Powell also signed on to be one of the many outstanding contributors to [http://www.deadspin.com Deadspin'] and is in responsible for the "Morning Wake Up Call" and many of the videos on the site. [http://www.deadspin.com Deadspin] . Before joining that website, Powell provided Weekend Sports Television previews and reviews [http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/7143/weekend_tube_review_cbs_ratings_still_struggling] as well as many other articles for the [http://www.thesportingblog.com Sporting News'] .

As far as the website itself, Awful Announcing, which was started as just a hobby, quickly became one of the most talked about and linked blogs on the Internet. The site focuses mainly on the perils and follies of those in Sports Media, but also critiques and reviews those within the rest of the Sports World. The site has been mentioned on Sports Center [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/10/hi-espn-and-brian-kenny.html] , ESPN Radio [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/07/about-that-whole-espn-radioscott-van.html] , Bill Simmons' ESPN Podcast [http://podloc.andomedia.com/dloadTrack.mp3?prm=2864xhttp://query-origin.andohs.net/8000A6/content-root3.andomedia.com/origin/mp3/espnradio/sportsguy/simmons080319.mp3] , WFAN, and various newspapers throughout the Country and is well known for it's Criticism of ESPN. AA was also an honorable mention for Best Non-Corporate Sports Web Site in SI.com Richard Deitsch's annual Media Awards in 2007 [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/12/17/media.awards/1.html] . The website is also widely known for a penchant of finding videos like no other and catching media members in humorous and/or shocking moments. The site prides itself on having items that no other outlet does and will continue to do so for years to come.

Some of the many Sports stories credited to or broken by AA.com include: The USC Song Girl Incident [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/01/brent-musburger-calls-out-blogs-and-usc.html] , ESPN's Dana Jacobson and Her Vodka Drinking Incident [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/01/dana-jacobson-is-vodka-drinker-and-more.html] , The On-Air Breakdown of Yankee Announcer Suzyn Waldman [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/10/suzyn-waldman-cries-on-air-following.html] , Mike Golic On-Air Admission of Steroid Use [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/11/mike-golic-coyly-admits-to-using.html] , Matt Vasgersian Trashing The City Of St. Louis [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/08/aa-rumor-mill-matt-vasgersian-trashes.html] , and Eric Cartman Introducing The Colorado Buffaloes on ABC [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/11/abc-gets-creative-has-eric-cartman.html]

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