The Sports Examiner: observations, intelligence and commentary on the world of sports . . . from a “West is Best” perspective!
Based in Los Angeles, California, The Sports Examiner is primarily devoted to the Southern California sports scene with a focus on stories – from anywhere – that you won’t find in your daily newspaper!
Begun as a showcase for a daily audiocast and accompanying column in October 2006, the format was changed to better serve our readership with a multiple-post Weblog format with a weekly audio show on April 2, 2007.
The weekly audiocast is a stylistic train wreck between the Jazz Age gossip columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell and the revolutionary 1960s “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” comedy show. You can listen to the program daily for free; access to archives for older programs or downloads to your .mp3 player are also free.
Longtime Los Angeles-area residents will note our style is intentionally similar to the high-successful “Jim Healy Show,” which dominated weekday afternoon sports radio in Southern California from the early 1960s through 1994. Using a variety of sound bites, his trademark clacker and sabre-edged sarcasm, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991. Healy died in 1994.
This site is produced by Perelman, Pioneer & Company of Los Angeles, California, with Rich Perelman as editor-in-chief and Bruce Tenen as researcher and writer.
Rich Perelman was chief of press operations at age 27 for the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles and has been at the heart of major events in Los Angeles and around the world ever since.
A renowned sports statistician, he has published more than 60 works on the Olympic Games, archery, basketball, football, track and field, volleyball and wrestling as well as Unforgettable: The 100 Greatest Moments in Los Angeles Sports History in 1995.
He and his Perelman, Pioneer & Company team has been at the center of more than a dozen major events including the 1994 and 1999 World Cup soccer tournaments, the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, the 1993 Super Bowl held in Pasadena, 2006 World Baseball Classic and international events such as the Goodwill Games, Pan American Games, World University Games and many others.
A charter board member of the Los Angeles Sports Council and a member of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, he also serves as Official Statistician for UCLA football and the Rose Bowl Game, has 32 seasons of service with the UCLA basketball statistics crew and has served as meet director for UCLA’s track and field program, for the world-class Home Depot Invitational in 2003 and 2004 and the 2005 USA Track & Field National Outdoor Championships.
Just for fun, he is also one of the nation’s leading authorities on cigars and publishes the standard reference to cigars marketed nationally in the United States, Perelman’s Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars, annually beginning in 1995.
A member of the State Bar of California, Perelman was raised in Los Angeles and graduated with honors from UCLA in 1978, and from Loyola Law School in 1981.
Producer Bruce Tenen is a veteran of more than 30 years of sports journalism and event management.
A longtime correspondent for the Associated Press in Los Angeles, “Moose” has covered almost every conceivable sport in Southern California and enjoys a wide circle of contacts in collegiate, Olympic and professional sports.
He has also been involved in sports administration over the past 20 years with the United States Olympic Committee’s International Games Preparation team at nearly a dozen Olympic Games and as a press officer for U.S. national championships and national teams in archery, swimming and track and field. He was an integral part of the press operations management team for the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006.
With fluency in five languages, Moose brings international news and insights into the program from places where news does not always travel in English.
Patricia Harris DiLeva handles advertising and marketing inquiries for TheSportsExaminer.com site and for the radio program; stations wishing to add The Sports Examiner to their line-up should contact her via e-mail using the “Contact Us” page or call her at (213) 365-7965.
To offer comments or questions about The Sports Examiner, please use the “Contact Us” function of this site.
|
