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...more than a decade, Joe Buck, the lead play-by-play announcer for Fox's baseball and football coverage, has narrated many of the biggest moments in sports. On June 15, the ubiquitous broadcaster kicked off a new phase in his career with the premiere of Joe Buck Live, a quarterly HBO show billed as part sports talk, part sketch comedy. Hours before his first live taping, Buck spoke to TIME about transitioning from the broadcast booth to the host's chair, the perks and pitfalls of the format and how he intended to coax Brett Favre into revealing...
...grew up following my dad [legendary broadcaster Jack Buck] around. As a kid, I couldn't get enough of the ballpark. I couldn't get enough of traveling with him or being around a major-league team. It's always been kind of a part of my DNA. I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town...
...think anything has staying power on the Internet? I feel that the medium encourages speed; it encourages churn. Occasionally you'll have people or ideas or artists that will buck that trend, but that tends to be the very, very rare exception...
...Baby! As you'd expect, Las Vegas hotels are running some outstanding specials right now: Circus Circus is just $27 per night (800-634-3450); the Excalibur will run you $31 (877-750-5464); Luxor starts at $55 (877-386-4658); the Monte Carlo ups it by just a buck at $56 per night (888-529-4828); New York New York has rooms for $65 (866-815-4365); the MGM Grand has $75 rack rates (877-880-0880); and the Mirage comes in under a C-note, with rates at $99 per night...
Like most Americans, I am a fan of Jay Leno. Now I am also a fan of Chris Buck. I was blown away when I came to Buck's picture of Leno. Prior to that moment, I could not imagine it was possible to capture in one picture the unique mirth that is Leno (that chin, the look in his eye) and at the same time depict the distinguished statesman of comedians he has become. Kudos to Buck. David Simon, MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF...