Streak Shooter

I came across an item in the sports website www.awfulannouncing.com where it was revealed that the popular sports network ESPN is set to downsize this year. Several on-cam talents are going to be displaced in all ESPN branches due reportedly to low earnings resulting from many viewers either switching to other sports networks like Fox Sports or watching live streaming through Facebook Live. ESPN started laying off employees in 2015 and this could affect the future of the network whose headquarters is in Bristol, Massachusetts with branches in New York and Los Angeles. Since last year, many ESPN talents have moved to other networks like Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd who are now with Fox Sports. Bayless is best remembered for his frequent verbal jousts with Stephen A. Smith on ESPN's morning sports debate show First Take. Bayless has since topbilled Undisputed on Fox with his new partner, former NFL player Shannon Sharpe. Smith, on the other hand, has a new partner on F...

Mr. T (photo courtesy of ABC 7) WHEN I was in high school, one of my favorite TV shows was The A-Team starring the late George Peppard and Mr. T.  It was an action-adventure series that hit it big in the 80s and was aired on Tuesday nights on GMA 7 when the Kapuso Network was still airing foreign shows on primetime instead of locally-produced soap operas. Before The A-Team, Mr. T starred in the movie Rocky III as Sylvester Stallone's opponent, Clubber Lang. T's character was knocked out by Rocky in the ending. The A-Team was remade into a movie in 2010 where Mr. T's character was portrayed by UFC fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson while Liam Neeson played Peppard's Hannibal Smith character. Unfortunately, that movie did so-so at the box-office and a sequel didn't push through. Incidentally, that A-Team movie also had Bradley Cooper in the cast. The A-Team is still aired on reruns on some US cable TV shows nightly and the show still rema...