Last night was the premiere of Aaron Sorkin‘s new HBO series, The Newsroom.  The show felt like Sorkin² in terms of the dialogue, the big soaring speeches, and the important parables.  It also felt like a bit of a retread …

Television shows based around sports have always been a bit of an enigma to me.  While I appreciate the need to represent the theme of athleticism on TV it seemed the audience for such a show would be tuning into …