I’m actually starting to warm up to Bill Burt.
Burt has been on the sports media scene for nearly 25 years now, and has spent his entire career at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune where he is now the Executive Sports Editor for the paper.
He joined the paper right out of college, and has covered events such as Marvin Hagler fights in Las Vegas, the Patriots Super Bowl trips, and even tried out for the Manchester NH Arena Football League team for a story. He also does the Burt Talks Sports blog for the paper. For a while, the blog was squatting on the BradfordonBaseball.com domain after Rob Bradford left the Eagle-Tribune, but now the domain has been transferred back to Bradford and points at his Boston Herald blog.
He has gotten most of his biggest exposure in the region as a result of his appearances on WEEI’s Big Show, where he is forced to play a bumbling, forgetful role to make Glenn Ordway look smarter. Burt has also hosted a weekend show with Lenny Megliola on the station, one which resulted in a Pete Gustin skit which is actually funny.
He recent Celtics columns and coverage has been top-notch.
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It’s not football season, so we haven’t seen or heard a whole lot of Smerlas recently.
With the NBA Finals tapping off tonight, it’s appropriate that we look at the man that his Boston Herald profile calls ”the dean of NBA beat writers in continuous service with a team.”
With Hazel Mae slated to exit NESN at the end of the month, we might be seeing a whole lot more of Kathryn Tappen on the network.
One of the young guns at the Boston Globe, Gasper made a name for himself this past NFL season, working alongside Mike Reiss on the Patriots beat, and on the Reiss’ Pieces blog.
You either love him or you hate him.
So is he a newspaper writer, radio personality or television host?
Announcer boy is up next.
Yes, the day is finally here.



