Sports Recaps – April 19, 2022
With Mother Nature finally helping out our spring sports teams with more than two consecutive days of “playable” weather (and subsequently adequate field conditions) this past week, there have been a number of interesting developments in Lehigh Valley scholastic sports to emerge. A few include: In a crowded field of talented baseball teams this spring,…
Read MoreJackie Robinson Day
In this week’s edition of “The Showplace,” guest blogger Artie Freeman focuses on the man whose courage and inspiration sparked a day now named in his honor – Jackie Robinson. **** Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919. He’s most famous for breaking baseball’s color line, which excluded Black players from Major League Baseball. MLB…
Read MoreSports Recaps – April 12, 2022
Before we continue our look back at the best plays of our recently completed high school sports season on ATVN, here’s a quick look at some of the teams and spring sports games that we’ll feature on upcoming editions of our “SportsTalk” show, seen live on ATVN every Thursday evening at 7pm: Wilson vs Saucon…
Read More“Jump The Shark” #2
Last week, we here at the Showplace began our countdown of the five best examples of a “shark jumping” ploy created by a television series’ creative brain team. Look back to last week’s entry to find out more about this oft-used TV term and for the first two entries. This week, we continue our countdown:…
Read MoreSports Recaps – April 5, 2022
Before we continue our look back at the best plays of our recently completed high school sports season on ATVN, here’s a forward look at our scheduled guests and topics on this week’s “SportsTalk” show, seen live on ATVN every Thursday evening at 7pm: The Liberty swim team brought home individual and team gold medals…
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