If only Tom Brady [stats] bared it all on his blog like Washington Redskins tight-end Chris Cooley.
We’re not talking about putting his package online a la Cooley style - but a little more personal insight from the injured Patriots [team stats] QB himself would be a cyber hit.
And now that he’s out for the season, what better way to stay connected with the fans?
Brady blogged only four times this year at tombrady.com and the last entry was posted in February shortly after the team’s crushing Super Bowl loss.
“So nice to spend a few days back at home with my folks and sisters,” Brady wrote. “Seems like all we did was eat and laugh and watch TV.”
Yawn.
Pats spokesman Stacey James told MediaBiz yesterday that players are free to blog and the team doesn’t have a written policy when it comes to player blogging.
“I’ve never seen any written policy on telling players what they can and can’t do,” James said. “I assume there might be some guys that blog, but not like a Curt Schilling [stats]. Guys have their own Web sites.”
Schilling, as Red Sox [team stats] Nation knows, is among the more prominent professional athletes who blog regularly.
While Brady’s few online entries are a bit dull, the Redskins’ Cooley lets loose, writing about everything from his fantasy football picks to Matt Cassel to admitting that he went with his wife to a Backstreet Boys concert. There are plenty of photos and videos, even one of him making breakfast.
Of course, he bared too much last Sunday when he posted a photo of his study materials for that day’s game against the New Orleans Saints. Cooley, 26, was naked when he snapped the photo of the materials on his lap - and his genitals made the shot.
He later apologized for the X-rated blog blunder and said he regretted not reviewing the “post more closely.”
“We are very sorry that we showed a penis on our Web site all day yesterday,” he wrote. “That was by no means our intention and we did not want to offend anyone. The picture wouldn’t have been up for so long, but we were in the middle of winning a big game.”
It looks like WGBH’s mammoth digital mural - which debuted with much fanfare last year but has been shut off since June - won’t be back on until next year, a station spokeswoman said this week.
The mural was built without a ventilation system. WGBH learned this summer that the power supplies behind the LED (light emitting diode) display were overheating, causing dark spots, and needed additional cooling, said station spokeswoman Lucy Sholley.
Sholley said designing the system and getting the OK from the Boston Redevelopment Authority has taken several months. The manufacturer says it will take at least 12 weeks to build and install the new ventilation system
But it won’t cost WGBH a cent because the mural is still under the manufacturer’s warranty.
“We expect the digital mural to be back in action by early next year,” Sholley said.
Professional slamball player Ivan Lattimore is back in Boston Municipal Court tomorrow for his last appearance before trial. Lattimore is set to go to trial next Friday. He allegedly beat up Channel 7 sports reporter Julie Donaldson and two other women after a night of partying.
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather is coming to Boston University Tuesday to speak about the presidential election. BU is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
