Irv Cross (right) and two other Eagles-turned-Rams chat with Los Angeles coach George Allen before a game in November 1966. Musburger, George’s former The NFL Today colleague, also tweeted his condolences: — Brent Musburger (@brentmusburger) May 16, 2020. Come to Muhammad Ali.".
[The Lexington Herald-Leader; photo from Classic NFL on YouTube].
If you don't see it please check your junk folder. Five races run, five more to go. But while many Eagles — from his early 1960s teammates through those who thrilled him by winning last February's Super Bowl — are better-known and more honored, few had Cross' impact.
Snyder, during his remarks, emphasized he was not meaning to be "derogatory" but said the only thing then that "whites control are the coaching jobs — the black talent is beautiful, it's great, it's out there. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles.
"All of you bow" he said. Early in his Philadelphia years, after hearing him speak at a banquet, KYW-TV sports director Jim Leaming offered Cross a job.
[citation needed], He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro football betting line. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4.
This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
The only thing left for the whites is a couple of coaching jobs. It’s unfortunate that like many players of his generation, he suffers from the same pains that have befallen them, but Cross refuses to be bitter. We didn’t think about things like safety.”. They don't do things the way you did.' He has stopped reading, avoids crowds and no longer drives, fearing he might not remember the way home. She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day. Andrew Bucholtz is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. She and Brown divorced in 1998. Cross certainly holds a place in NFL television history for his work in pioneering the studio analyst role. Phyllis George, the former “The NFL Today” studio co-host and 1971 Miss America, has died. But I don't want to hear some guy say, `This is what I'd do.' There are a ton of good road courses out there across the world that you can race on. "I think he was impressed that a football player could speak English," Cross said, laughing. It’s a tricky layout where someone’s mistake can cost another driver a good finish. But he stayed with the network to call games until he went to Idaho State University and then Macalester College in Minnesota as athletic director of both schools.
[3], According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments: "What a foolish thing to say." And in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, they loved Phyllis despite her Dallas Cowboys bias! Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL games. For the restaurant, see, Quoted verbatim from ESPN's 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek which originally aired on November 10, 2009, Jimmy the Greek Comments that got him fired, Learn how and when to remove this template message, bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery, Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life, Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, 76, Is Dead; a Sports Oddsmaker, Commercial with Jimmy the Greek for Tuffy Auto Centers, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)&oldid=984520963, Burials at Union Cemetery, (Steubenville, Ohio), National Basketball Association broadcasters, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles needing additional references from February 2015, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 14:44. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer. CBS NFL By Ken Fang on 09/03/2018 07/09/2020 This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. I think that’s really what you want to see is you want to be as diverse as possible in the racetracks we race on and I think locking yourself into a particular market, and I think we’ve seen the roval is a great race, but it’s never going to be as great as it was the first time we were there because of the fact all of the hype and anticipation and everything that came with it is not there after you do it one time. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was part of the show for some of the years. Snyder is also parodied in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Greek", which was named after him. After the show won multiple Emmys, George figured that proved she knew football.
I really don't know how you're supposed to make a tackle these days. Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie.
He also won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race the day before the Cup Series race at Sonoma, and has also competed in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen with a win in 2007, one pole and top-10 finishes in all eight races. Thanks for taking the seat at the table, Phyllis George.
"It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day.
That wasn't my personality.". It's why he carries a card in his wallet instructing that, after his death, he wants Boston University to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The other former Eagles are (from left) Tommy McDonald and Maxie Baughn. During his playing career, Cross suffered so many concussions during one season that his Eagles’ teammates called him “Paper Head.” Cross said so little was known about the effects of concussions that players would be sent right back into the game. Condolences to her family & all who loved her.”. Cross lives in Minneapolis, far removed from an era when he once was among the most familiar faces in Philadelphia sports.
Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
AwfulAnnouncing.com is a Sports fan web site and is in no way affiliated with any media organization, any professional sports league, team, organization, or its Properties.
Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. Sports Canada and Black Press. If you wanna know any damn thing about boxing, don't go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't go to no Jimmy the Greek.
If I hadn’t made that work, women eventually would have come into sportscasting, but it would have taken them longer.”. Phyllis George, one of the first women to regularly appear on a national sports show, has passed away at 70. Remembering the The NFL Today of yesterday with our very first woman at the desk, Phyllis George ….the days of Brent and Phyllis and Irv.
Eagles aren’t in any position to scoff at Dallas’ troubles, Eagles need Richard Rodgers with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert sidelined, Temple’s injured list continues to grow, including quarterback Anthony Russo, La Salle football player Isaiah Turner died of a sickle cell crisis, When Ivy League basketball tips off is up to the virus | Mike Jensen, Odell Beckham Jr. suffers torn ACL, Ron Rivera completes chemotherapy treatment, and more sports news. “There was a woman talking about football,” Mowins said. His concern this week is the tricky “roval,” on which he has finished in the top-10 twice in two outings. George was born in Denton, Texas. “I felt they didn’t know who Phyllis George was. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, his name achieved international renown. He is reluctant even to elaborate on the physical and mental problems he described in a new biography co-written with Clifton Brown, Bearing the Cross. James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
The Eagles' seventh-round pick out of Northwestern in 1961, he was among the franchise's first African American starters.
We’ve arrived at halftime of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. "I began to do the sports reports on the weekends and, when Jim was on vacation, during the week. Please try again.
Cue Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder or Bob Costas, Pete Axthelm and Ahmad Rashad, or even Howard Cosell.
Former CBS Sports executive LeslieAnne Wade sent a tribute as well: A tremendous loss for our CBS family. The field of early season college basketball tournaments is taking a big hit. Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. "My wife keeps saying, `Times have changed, Irv. The only black athlete who did that I knew of was Frank Clark of the Cowboys, who did some highlights and scores.". At 79, he's also been diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia. that … Disappointed I never met her and told her that she inspired my personal story. And she paved the way for many female broadcasters who followed in her footsteps. On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell.
Irv Cross (right) and two other Eagles-turned-Rams chat with Los Angeles coach George Allen before a game in November 1966. Musburger, George’s former The NFL Today colleague, also tweeted his condolences: — Brent Musburger (@brentmusburger) May 16, 2020. Come to Muhammad Ali.".
[The Lexington Herald-Leader; photo from Classic NFL on YouTube].
If you don't see it please check your junk folder. Five races run, five more to go. But while many Eagles — from his early 1960s teammates through those who thrilled him by winning last February's Super Bowl — are better-known and more honored, few had Cross' impact.
Snyder, during his remarks, emphasized he was not meaning to be "derogatory" but said the only thing then that "whites control are the coaching jobs — the black talent is beautiful, it's great, it's out there. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles.
"All of you bow" he said. Early in his Philadelphia years, after hearing him speak at a banquet, KYW-TV sports director Jim Leaming offered Cross a job.
[citation needed], He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro football betting line. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4.
This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
The only thing left for the whites is a couple of coaching jobs. It’s unfortunate that like many players of his generation, he suffers from the same pains that have befallen them, but Cross refuses to be bitter. We didn’t think about things like safety.”. They don't do things the way you did.' He has stopped reading, avoids crowds and no longer drives, fearing he might not remember the way home. She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day. Andrew Bucholtz is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. She and Brown divorced in 1998. Cross certainly holds a place in NFL television history for his work in pioneering the studio analyst role. Phyllis George, the former “The NFL Today” studio co-host and 1971 Miss America, has died. But I don't want to hear some guy say, `This is what I'd do.' There are a ton of good road courses out there across the world that you can race on. "I think he was impressed that a football player could speak English," Cross said, laughing. It’s a tricky layout where someone’s mistake can cost another driver a good finish. But he stayed with the network to call games until he went to Idaho State University and then Macalester College in Minnesota as athletic director of both schools.
[3], According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments: "What a foolish thing to say." And in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, they loved Phyllis despite her Dallas Cowboys bias! Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL games. For the restaurant, see, Quoted verbatim from ESPN's 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek which originally aired on November 10, 2009, Jimmy the Greek Comments that got him fired, Learn how and when to remove this template message, bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery, Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life, Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, 76, Is Dead; a Sports Oddsmaker, Commercial with Jimmy the Greek for Tuffy Auto Centers, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)&oldid=984520963, Burials at Union Cemetery, (Steubenville, Ohio), National Basketball Association broadcasters, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles needing additional references from February 2015, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 14:44. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer. CBS NFL By Ken Fang on 09/03/2018 07/09/2020 This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. I think that’s really what you want to see is you want to be as diverse as possible in the racetracks we race on and I think locking yourself into a particular market, and I think we’ve seen the roval is a great race, but it’s never going to be as great as it was the first time we were there because of the fact all of the hype and anticipation and everything that came with it is not there after you do it one time. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was part of the show for some of the years. Snyder is also parodied in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Greek", which was named after him. After the show won multiple Emmys, George figured that proved she knew football.
I really don't know how you're supposed to make a tackle these days. Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie.
He also won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race the day before the Cup Series race at Sonoma, and has also competed in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen with a win in 2007, one pole and top-10 finishes in all eight races. Thanks for taking the seat at the table, Phyllis George.
"It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day.
That wasn't my personality.". It's why he carries a card in his wallet instructing that, after his death, he wants Boston University to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The other former Eagles are (from left) Tommy McDonald and Maxie Baughn. During his playing career, Cross suffered so many concussions during one season that his Eagles’ teammates called him “Paper Head.” Cross said so little was known about the effects of concussions that players would be sent right back into the game. Condolences to her family & all who loved her.”. Cross lives in Minneapolis, far removed from an era when he once was among the most familiar faces in Philadelphia sports.
Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
AwfulAnnouncing.com is a Sports fan web site and is in no way affiliated with any media organization, any professional sports league, team, organization, or its Properties.
Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. Sports Canada and Black Press. If you wanna know any damn thing about boxing, don't go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't go to no Jimmy the Greek.
If I hadn’t made that work, women eventually would have come into sportscasting, but it would have taken them longer.”. Phyllis George, one of the first women to regularly appear on a national sports show, has passed away at 70. Remembering the The NFL Today of yesterday with our very first woman at the desk, Phyllis George ….the days of Brent and Phyllis and Irv.
Eagles aren’t in any position to scoff at Dallas’ troubles, Eagles need Richard Rodgers with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert sidelined, Temple’s injured list continues to grow, including quarterback Anthony Russo, La Salle football player Isaiah Turner died of a sickle cell crisis, When Ivy League basketball tips off is up to the virus | Mike Jensen, Odell Beckham Jr. suffers torn ACL, Ron Rivera completes chemotherapy treatment, and more sports news. “There was a woman talking about football,” Mowins said. His concern this week is the tricky “roval,” on which he has finished in the top-10 twice in two outings. George was born in Denton, Texas. “I felt they didn’t know who Phyllis George was. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, his name achieved international renown. He is reluctant even to elaborate on the physical and mental problems he described in a new biography co-written with Clifton Brown, Bearing the Cross. James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
The Eagles' seventh-round pick out of Northwestern in 1961, he was among the franchise's first African American starters.
We’ve arrived at halftime of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. "I began to do the sports reports on the weekends and, when Jim was on vacation, during the week. Please try again.
Cue Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder or Bob Costas, Pete Axthelm and Ahmad Rashad, or even Howard Cosell.
Former CBS Sports executive LeslieAnne Wade sent a tribute as well: A tremendous loss for our CBS family. The field of early season college basketball tournaments is taking a big hit. Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. "My wife keeps saying, `Times have changed, Irv. The only black athlete who did that I knew of was Frank Clark of the Cowboys, who did some highlights and scores.". At 79, he's also been diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia. that … Disappointed I never met her and told her that she inspired my personal story. And she paved the way for many female broadcasters who followed in her footsteps. On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell.
Irv Cross (right) and two other Eagles-turned-Rams chat with Los Angeles coach George Allen before a game in November 1966. Musburger, George’s former The NFL Today colleague, also tweeted his condolences: — Brent Musburger (@brentmusburger) May 16, 2020. Come to Muhammad Ali.".
[The Lexington Herald-Leader; photo from Classic NFL on YouTube].
If you don't see it please check your junk folder. Five races run, five more to go. But while many Eagles — from his early 1960s teammates through those who thrilled him by winning last February's Super Bowl — are better-known and more honored, few had Cross' impact.
Snyder, during his remarks, emphasized he was not meaning to be "derogatory" but said the only thing then that "whites control are the coaching jobs — the black talent is beautiful, it's great, it's out there. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles.
"All of you bow" he said. Early in his Philadelphia years, after hearing him speak at a banquet, KYW-TV sports director Jim Leaming offered Cross a job.
[citation needed], He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro football betting line. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4.
This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
The only thing left for the whites is a couple of coaching jobs. It’s unfortunate that like many players of his generation, he suffers from the same pains that have befallen them, but Cross refuses to be bitter. We didn’t think about things like safety.”. They don't do things the way you did.' He has stopped reading, avoids crowds and no longer drives, fearing he might not remember the way home. She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day. Andrew Bucholtz is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. She and Brown divorced in 1998. Cross certainly holds a place in NFL television history for his work in pioneering the studio analyst role. Phyllis George, the former “The NFL Today” studio co-host and 1971 Miss America, has died. But I don't want to hear some guy say, `This is what I'd do.' There are a ton of good road courses out there across the world that you can race on. "I think he was impressed that a football player could speak English," Cross said, laughing. It’s a tricky layout where someone’s mistake can cost another driver a good finish. But he stayed with the network to call games until he went to Idaho State University and then Macalester College in Minnesota as athletic director of both schools.
[3], According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments: "What a foolish thing to say." And in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, they loved Phyllis despite her Dallas Cowboys bias! Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL games. For the restaurant, see, Quoted verbatim from ESPN's 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek which originally aired on November 10, 2009, Jimmy the Greek Comments that got him fired, Learn how and when to remove this template message, bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery, Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life, Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, 76, Is Dead; a Sports Oddsmaker, Commercial with Jimmy the Greek for Tuffy Auto Centers, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)&oldid=984520963, Burials at Union Cemetery, (Steubenville, Ohio), National Basketball Association broadcasters, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles needing additional references from February 2015, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 14:44. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer. CBS NFL By Ken Fang on 09/03/2018 07/09/2020 This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. I think that’s really what you want to see is you want to be as diverse as possible in the racetracks we race on and I think locking yourself into a particular market, and I think we’ve seen the roval is a great race, but it’s never going to be as great as it was the first time we were there because of the fact all of the hype and anticipation and everything that came with it is not there after you do it one time. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was part of the show for some of the years. Snyder is also parodied in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Greek", which was named after him. After the show won multiple Emmys, George figured that proved she knew football.
I really don't know how you're supposed to make a tackle these days. Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie.
He also won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race the day before the Cup Series race at Sonoma, and has also competed in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen with a win in 2007, one pole and top-10 finishes in all eight races. Thanks for taking the seat at the table, Phyllis George.
"It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day.
That wasn't my personality.". It's why he carries a card in his wallet instructing that, after his death, he wants Boston University to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The other former Eagles are (from left) Tommy McDonald and Maxie Baughn. During his playing career, Cross suffered so many concussions during one season that his Eagles’ teammates called him “Paper Head.” Cross said so little was known about the effects of concussions that players would be sent right back into the game. Condolences to her family & all who loved her.”. Cross lives in Minneapolis, far removed from an era when he once was among the most familiar faces in Philadelphia sports.
Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
AwfulAnnouncing.com is a Sports fan web site and is in no way affiliated with any media organization, any professional sports league, team, organization, or its Properties.
Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. Sports Canada and Black Press. If you wanna know any damn thing about boxing, don't go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't go to no Jimmy the Greek.
If I hadn’t made that work, women eventually would have come into sportscasting, but it would have taken them longer.”. Phyllis George, one of the first women to regularly appear on a national sports show, has passed away at 70. Remembering the The NFL Today of yesterday with our very first woman at the desk, Phyllis George ….the days of Brent and Phyllis and Irv.
Eagles aren’t in any position to scoff at Dallas’ troubles, Eagles need Richard Rodgers with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert sidelined, Temple’s injured list continues to grow, including quarterback Anthony Russo, La Salle football player Isaiah Turner died of a sickle cell crisis, When Ivy League basketball tips off is up to the virus | Mike Jensen, Odell Beckham Jr. suffers torn ACL, Ron Rivera completes chemotherapy treatment, and more sports news. “There was a woman talking about football,” Mowins said. His concern this week is the tricky “roval,” on which he has finished in the top-10 twice in two outings. George was born in Denton, Texas. “I felt they didn’t know who Phyllis George was. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, his name achieved international renown. He is reluctant even to elaborate on the physical and mental problems he described in a new biography co-written with Clifton Brown, Bearing the Cross. James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
The Eagles' seventh-round pick out of Northwestern in 1961, he was among the franchise's first African American starters.
We’ve arrived at halftime of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. "I began to do the sports reports on the weekends and, when Jim was on vacation, during the week. Please try again.
Cue Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder or Bob Costas, Pete Axthelm and Ahmad Rashad, or even Howard Cosell.
Former CBS Sports executive LeslieAnne Wade sent a tribute as well: A tremendous loss for our CBS family. The field of early season college basketball tournaments is taking a big hit. Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. "My wife keeps saying, `Times have changed, Irv. The only black athlete who did that I knew of was Frank Clark of the Cowboys, who did some highlights and scores.". At 79, he's also been diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia. that … Disappointed I never met her and told her that she inspired my personal story. And she paved the way for many female broadcasters who followed in her footsteps. On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell.
Irv Cross (right) and two other Eagles-turned-Rams chat with Los Angeles coach George Allen before a game in November 1966. Musburger, George’s former The NFL Today colleague, also tweeted his condolences: — Brent Musburger (@brentmusburger) May 16, 2020. Come to Muhammad Ali.".
[The Lexington Herald-Leader; photo from Classic NFL on YouTube].
If you don't see it please check your junk folder. Five races run, five more to go. But while many Eagles — from his early 1960s teammates through those who thrilled him by winning last February's Super Bowl — are better-known and more honored, few had Cross' impact.
Snyder, during his remarks, emphasized he was not meaning to be "derogatory" but said the only thing then that "whites control are the coaching jobs — the black talent is beautiful, it's great, it's out there. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles.
"All of you bow" he said. Early in his Philadelphia years, after hearing him speak at a banquet, KYW-TV sports director Jim Leaming offered Cross a job.
[citation needed], He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro football betting line. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4.
This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
The only thing left for the whites is a couple of coaching jobs. It’s unfortunate that like many players of his generation, he suffers from the same pains that have befallen them, but Cross refuses to be bitter. We didn’t think about things like safety.”. They don't do things the way you did.' He has stopped reading, avoids crowds and no longer drives, fearing he might not remember the way home. She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day. Andrew Bucholtz is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. She and Brown divorced in 1998. Cross certainly holds a place in NFL television history for his work in pioneering the studio analyst role. Phyllis George, the former “The NFL Today” studio co-host and 1971 Miss America, has died. But I don't want to hear some guy say, `This is what I'd do.' There are a ton of good road courses out there across the world that you can race on. "I think he was impressed that a football player could speak English," Cross said, laughing. It’s a tricky layout where someone’s mistake can cost another driver a good finish. But he stayed with the network to call games until he went to Idaho State University and then Macalester College in Minnesota as athletic director of both schools.
[3], According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments: "What a foolish thing to say." And in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, they loved Phyllis despite her Dallas Cowboys bias! Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL games. For the restaurant, see, Quoted verbatim from ESPN's 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek which originally aired on November 10, 2009, Jimmy the Greek Comments that got him fired, Learn how and when to remove this template message, bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery, Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life, Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, 76, Is Dead; a Sports Oddsmaker, Commercial with Jimmy the Greek for Tuffy Auto Centers, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)&oldid=984520963, Burials at Union Cemetery, (Steubenville, Ohio), National Basketball Association broadcasters, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles needing additional references from February 2015, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 14:44. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer. CBS NFL By Ken Fang on 09/03/2018 07/09/2020 This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. I think that’s really what you want to see is you want to be as diverse as possible in the racetracks we race on and I think locking yourself into a particular market, and I think we’ve seen the roval is a great race, but it’s never going to be as great as it was the first time we were there because of the fact all of the hype and anticipation and everything that came with it is not there after you do it one time. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was part of the show for some of the years. Snyder is also parodied in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Greek", which was named after him. After the show won multiple Emmys, George figured that proved she knew football.
I really don't know how you're supposed to make a tackle these days. Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie.
He also won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race the day before the Cup Series race at Sonoma, and has also competed in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen with a win in 2007, one pole and top-10 finishes in all eight races. Thanks for taking the seat at the table, Phyllis George.
"It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day.
That wasn't my personality.". It's why he carries a card in his wallet instructing that, after his death, he wants Boston University to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The other former Eagles are (from left) Tommy McDonald and Maxie Baughn. During his playing career, Cross suffered so many concussions during one season that his Eagles’ teammates called him “Paper Head.” Cross said so little was known about the effects of concussions that players would be sent right back into the game. Condolences to her family & all who loved her.”. Cross lives in Minneapolis, far removed from an era when he once was among the most familiar faces in Philadelphia sports.
Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
AwfulAnnouncing.com is a Sports fan web site and is in no way affiliated with any media organization, any professional sports league, team, organization, or its Properties.
Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. Sports Canada and Black Press. If you wanna know any damn thing about boxing, don't go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't go to no Jimmy the Greek.
If I hadn’t made that work, women eventually would have come into sportscasting, but it would have taken them longer.”. Phyllis George, one of the first women to regularly appear on a national sports show, has passed away at 70. Remembering the The NFL Today of yesterday with our very first woman at the desk, Phyllis George ….the days of Brent and Phyllis and Irv.
Eagles aren’t in any position to scoff at Dallas’ troubles, Eagles need Richard Rodgers with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert sidelined, Temple’s injured list continues to grow, including quarterback Anthony Russo, La Salle football player Isaiah Turner died of a sickle cell crisis, When Ivy League basketball tips off is up to the virus | Mike Jensen, Odell Beckham Jr. suffers torn ACL, Ron Rivera completes chemotherapy treatment, and more sports news. “There was a woman talking about football,” Mowins said. His concern this week is the tricky “roval,” on which he has finished in the top-10 twice in two outings. George was born in Denton, Texas. “I felt they didn’t know who Phyllis George was. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, his name achieved international renown. He is reluctant even to elaborate on the physical and mental problems he described in a new biography co-written with Clifton Brown, Bearing the Cross. James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
The Eagles' seventh-round pick out of Northwestern in 1961, he was among the franchise's first African American starters.
We’ve arrived at halftime of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. "I began to do the sports reports on the weekends and, when Jim was on vacation, during the week. Please try again.
Cue Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder or Bob Costas, Pete Axthelm and Ahmad Rashad, or even Howard Cosell.
Former CBS Sports executive LeslieAnne Wade sent a tribute as well: A tremendous loss for our CBS family. The field of early season college basketball tournaments is taking a big hit. Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. "My wife keeps saying, `Times have changed, Irv. The only black athlete who did that I knew of was Frank Clark of the Cowboys, who did some highlights and scores.". At 79, he's also been diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia. that … Disappointed I never met her and told her that she inspired my personal story. And she paved the way for many female broadcasters who followed in her footsteps. On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell.
Irv Cross (right) and two other Eagles-turned-Rams chat with Los Angeles coach George Allen before a game in November 1966. Musburger, George’s former The NFL Today colleague, also tweeted his condolences: — Brent Musburger (@brentmusburger) May 16, 2020. Come to Muhammad Ali.".
[The Lexington Herald-Leader; photo from Classic NFL on YouTube].
If you don't see it please check your junk folder. Five races run, five more to go. But while many Eagles — from his early 1960s teammates through those who thrilled him by winning last February's Super Bowl — are better-known and more honored, few had Cross' impact.
Snyder, during his remarks, emphasized he was not meaning to be "derogatory" but said the only thing then that "whites control are the coaching jobs — the black talent is beautiful, it's great, it's out there. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles.
"All of you bow" he said. Early in his Philadelphia years, after hearing him speak at a banquet, KYW-TV sports director Jim Leaming offered Cross a job.
[citation needed], He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro football betting line. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4.
This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
The only thing left for the whites is a couple of coaching jobs. It’s unfortunate that like many players of his generation, he suffers from the same pains that have befallen them, but Cross refuses to be bitter. We didn’t think about things like safety.”. They don't do things the way you did.' He has stopped reading, avoids crowds and no longer drives, fearing he might not remember the way home. She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day. Andrew Bucholtz is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. She and Brown divorced in 1998. Cross certainly holds a place in NFL television history for his work in pioneering the studio analyst role. Phyllis George, the former “The NFL Today” studio co-host and 1971 Miss America, has died. But I don't want to hear some guy say, `This is what I'd do.' There are a ton of good road courses out there across the world that you can race on. "I think he was impressed that a football player could speak English," Cross said, laughing. It’s a tricky layout where someone’s mistake can cost another driver a good finish. But he stayed with the network to call games until he went to Idaho State University and then Macalester College in Minnesota as athletic director of both schools.
[3], According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments: "What a foolish thing to say." And in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, they loved Phyllis despite her Dallas Cowboys bias! Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL games. For the restaurant, see, Quoted verbatim from ESPN's 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek which originally aired on November 10, 2009, Jimmy the Greek Comments that got him fired, Learn how and when to remove this template message, bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery, Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life, Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, 76, Is Dead; a Sports Oddsmaker, Commercial with Jimmy the Greek for Tuffy Auto Centers, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)&oldid=984520963, Burials at Union Cemetery, (Steubenville, Ohio), National Basketball Association broadcasters, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles needing additional references from February 2015, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 14:44. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer. CBS NFL By Ken Fang on 09/03/2018 07/09/2020 This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. I think that’s really what you want to see is you want to be as diverse as possible in the racetracks we race on and I think locking yourself into a particular market, and I think we’ve seen the roval is a great race, but it’s never going to be as great as it was the first time we were there because of the fact all of the hype and anticipation and everything that came with it is not there after you do it one time. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was part of the show for some of the years. Snyder is also parodied in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Greek", which was named after him. After the show won multiple Emmys, George figured that proved she knew football.
I really don't know how you're supposed to make a tackle these days. Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie.
He also won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race the day before the Cup Series race at Sonoma, and has also competed in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen with a win in 2007, one pole and top-10 finishes in all eight races. Thanks for taking the seat at the table, Phyllis George.
"It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day.
That wasn't my personality.". It's why he carries a card in his wallet instructing that, after his death, he wants Boston University to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The other former Eagles are (from left) Tommy McDonald and Maxie Baughn. During his playing career, Cross suffered so many concussions during one season that his Eagles’ teammates called him “Paper Head.” Cross said so little was known about the effects of concussions that players would be sent right back into the game. Condolences to her family & all who loved her.”. Cross lives in Minneapolis, far removed from an era when he once was among the most familiar faces in Philadelphia sports.
Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
AwfulAnnouncing.com is a Sports fan web site and is in no way affiliated with any media organization, any professional sports league, team, organization, or its Properties.
Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. Sports Canada and Black Press. If you wanna know any damn thing about boxing, don't go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't go to no Jimmy the Greek.
If I hadn’t made that work, women eventually would have come into sportscasting, but it would have taken them longer.”. Phyllis George, one of the first women to regularly appear on a national sports show, has passed away at 70. Remembering the The NFL Today of yesterday with our very first woman at the desk, Phyllis George ….the days of Brent and Phyllis and Irv.
Eagles aren’t in any position to scoff at Dallas’ troubles, Eagles need Richard Rodgers with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert sidelined, Temple’s injured list continues to grow, including quarterback Anthony Russo, La Salle football player Isaiah Turner died of a sickle cell crisis, When Ivy League basketball tips off is up to the virus | Mike Jensen, Odell Beckham Jr. suffers torn ACL, Ron Rivera completes chemotherapy treatment, and more sports news. “There was a woman talking about football,” Mowins said. His concern this week is the tricky “roval,” on which he has finished in the top-10 twice in two outings. George was born in Denton, Texas. “I felt they didn’t know who Phyllis George was. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, his name achieved international renown. He is reluctant even to elaborate on the physical and mental problems he described in a new biography co-written with Clifton Brown, Bearing the Cross. James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
The Eagles' seventh-round pick out of Northwestern in 1961, he was among the franchise's first African American starters.
We’ve arrived at halftime of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. "I began to do the sports reports on the weekends and, when Jim was on vacation, during the week. Please try again.
Cue Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder or Bob Costas, Pete Axthelm and Ahmad Rashad, or even Howard Cosell.
Former CBS Sports executive LeslieAnne Wade sent a tribute as well: A tremendous loss for our CBS family. The field of early season college basketball tournaments is taking a big hit. Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. "My wife keeps saying, `Times have changed, Irv. The only black athlete who did that I knew of was Frank Clark of the Cowboys, who did some highlights and scores.". At 79, he's also been diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia. that … Disappointed I never met her and told her that she inspired my personal story. And she paved the way for many female broadcasters who followed in her footsteps. On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell.
Eisen ran a 6.00 40-yard dash in 2019, compared to Metcalf's 4.45 mark. A regular contributor to the CBS program The NFL Today, Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to figure out the point spread. One CBS Sports insider told us yesterday that on "NFL Today," Musburger has the unhappy task of quarterbacking the team of Phyllis George, Jimmy the Greek and Irv Cross . As for the current NFL pregame shows, Cross doesn’t watch them. "Nobody went into television in those days. I told him it would," Cross said. But while Musburger, Costas and Cosell are catching everyone up on all the action from the first half, Harvick is looking forward to Sunday’s road-course race. “We do. George was Kentucky’s first lady from 1979-83. George initially joined CBS Sports in 1974, then joined The NFL Today pre-game show in 1975, working with Brent Musburger and Irv Cross (Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder would join the following year). "I think I made $75,000 that year, my top contract ever," he said. He still watches the games, though, and he wonders how today's players can adapt to all the new rules aimed at saving them from the pain and confusion he and so many others have endured.
Irv Cross (right) and two other Eagles-turned-Rams chat with Los Angeles coach George Allen before a game in November 1966. Musburger, George’s former The NFL Today colleague, also tweeted his condolences: — Brent Musburger (@brentmusburger) May 16, 2020. Come to Muhammad Ali.".
[The Lexington Herald-Leader; photo from Classic NFL on YouTube].
If you don't see it please check your junk folder. Five races run, five more to go. But while many Eagles — from his early 1960s teammates through those who thrilled him by winning last February's Super Bowl — are better-known and more honored, few had Cross' impact.
Snyder, during his remarks, emphasized he was not meaning to be "derogatory" but said the only thing then that "whites control are the coaching jobs — the black talent is beautiful, it's great, it's out there. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles.
"All of you bow" he said. Early in his Philadelphia years, after hearing him speak at a banquet, KYW-TV sports director Jim Leaming offered Cross a job.
[citation needed], He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro football betting line. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4.
This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television.
The only thing left for the whites is a couple of coaching jobs. It’s unfortunate that like many players of his generation, he suffers from the same pains that have befallen them, but Cross refuses to be bitter. We didn’t think about things like safety.”. They don't do things the way you did.' He has stopped reading, avoids crowds and no longer drives, fearing he might not remember the way home. She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day. Andrew Bucholtz is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. She and Brown divorced in 1998. Cross certainly holds a place in NFL television history for his work in pioneering the studio analyst role. Phyllis George, the former “The NFL Today” studio co-host and 1971 Miss America, has died. But I don't want to hear some guy say, `This is what I'd do.' There are a ton of good road courses out there across the world that you can race on. "I think he was impressed that a football player could speak English," Cross said, laughing. It’s a tricky layout where someone’s mistake can cost another driver a good finish. But he stayed with the network to call games until he went to Idaho State University and then Macalester College in Minnesota as athletic director of both schools.
[3], According to the New York Times obituary, Snyder expressed regret for his comments: "What a foolish thing to say." And in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, they loved Phyllis despite her Dallas Cowboys bias! Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL games. For the restaurant, see, Quoted verbatim from ESPN's 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek which originally aired on November 10, 2009, Jimmy the Greek Comments that got him fired, Learn how and when to remove this template message, bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery, Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life, Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, 76, Is Dead; a Sports Oddsmaker, Commercial with Jimmy the Greek for Tuffy Auto Centers, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)&oldid=984520963, Burials at Union Cemetery, (Steubenville, Ohio), National Basketball Association broadcasters, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles needing additional references from February 2015, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 14:44. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer. CBS NFL By Ken Fang on 09/03/2018 07/09/2020 This site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. I think that’s really what you want to see is you want to be as diverse as possible in the racetracks we race on and I think locking yourself into a particular market, and I think we’ve seen the roval is a great race, but it’s never going to be as great as it was the first time we were there because of the fact all of the hype and anticipation and everything that came with it is not there after you do it one time. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was part of the show for some of the years. Snyder is also parodied in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Greek", which was named after him. After the show won multiple Emmys, George figured that proved she knew football.
I really don't know how you're supposed to make a tackle these days. Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie.
He also won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race the day before the Cup Series race at Sonoma, and has also competed in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen with a win in 2007, one pole and top-10 finishes in all eight races. Thanks for taking the seat at the table, Phyllis George.
"It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. Irv Cross was the 2009 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award – the award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football." She was herself-charming and funny ..helped her audiences connect with some of the great sports figures of the day.
That wasn't my personality.". It's why he carries a card in his wallet instructing that, after his death, he wants Boston University to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The other former Eagles are (from left) Tommy McDonald and Maxie Baughn. During his playing career, Cross suffered so many concussions during one season that his Eagles’ teammates called him “Paper Head.” Cross said so little was known about the effects of concussions that players would be sent right back into the game. Condolences to her family & all who loved her.”. Cross lives in Minneapolis, far removed from an era when he once was among the most familiar faces in Philadelphia sports.
Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013.
AwfulAnnouncing.com is a Sports fan web site and is in no way affiliated with any media organization, any professional sports league, team, organization, or its Properties.
Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. Sports Canada and Black Press. If you wanna know any damn thing about boxing, don't go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't go to no Jimmy the Greek.
If I hadn’t made that work, women eventually would have come into sportscasting, but it would have taken them longer.”. Phyllis George, one of the first women to regularly appear on a national sports show, has passed away at 70. Remembering the The NFL Today of yesterday with our very first woman at the desk, Phyllis George ….the days of Brent and Phyllis and Irv.
Eagles aren’t in any position to scoff at Dallas’ troubles, Eagles need Richard Rodgers with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert sidelined, Temple’s injured list continues to grow, including quarterback Anthony Russo, La Salle football player Isaiah Turner died of a sickle cell crisis, When Ivy League basketball tips off is up to the virus | Mike Jensen, Odell Beckham Jr. suffers torn ACL, Ron Rivera completes chemotherapy treatment, and more sports news. “There was a woman talking about football,” Mowins said. His concern this week is the tricky “roval,” on which he has finished in the top-10 twice in two outings. George was born in Denton, Texas. “I felt they didn’t know who Phyllis George was. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, his name achieved international renown. He is reluctant even to elaborate on the physical and mental problems he described in a new biography co-written with Clifton Brown, Bearing the Cross. James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
The Eagles' seventh-round pick out of Northwestern in 1961, he was among the franchise's first African American starters.
We’ve arrived at halftime of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. "I began to do the sports reports on the weekends and, when Jim was on vacation, during the week. Please try again.
Cue Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder or Bob Costas, Pete Axthelm and Ahmad Rashad, or even Howard Cosell.
Former CBS Sports executive LeslieAnne Wade sent a tribute as well: A tremendous loss for our CBS family. The field of early season college basketball tournaments is taking a big hit. Irv Cross isn't the only player from his hard-knocks football generation with nonstop headaches. "My wife keeps saying, `Times have changed, Irv. The only black athlete who did that I knew of was Frank Clark of the Cowboys, who did some highlights and scores.". At 79, he's also been diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia. that … Disappointed I never met her and told her that she inspired my personal story. And she paved the way for many female broadcasters who followed in her footsteps. On November 10, 2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell.
