{"id":2215,"date":"2009-12-25T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-man-with-the-sports-machine-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T07:45:43","slug":"the-man-with-the-sports-machine-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/25\/the-man-with-the-sports-machine-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man With The Sports Machine Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/24\/AR2009122401535.html?wpisrc=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font size=\"+2\"><strong>George Michael, famed D.C. sportscaster, dies of cancer<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"-1\">By Adam Bernstein<br \/>\nWashington Post Staff Writer<br \/>\nFriday, December 25, 2009; A01<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retrojunk.com\/img\/tvshows\/sports_machine_863.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"140\" width=\"172\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sports Machine logo lifted from RetroJunk.com\" \/>George Michael, 70, a high-rated and hyperanimated Washington sportscaster whose extensive use of game highlights from across the country on his nationally syndicated show has now become the norm in the industry, died Thursday at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Michael was a popular rock-and-roll DJ in Philadelphia and New York before making a successful transition to television, where his boisterous style and unremitting hustle made him one of the dominant personalities in Washington for years. He represented sports as entertainment, with what some regarded as a team-friendly approach, especially to the hometown Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 1980, Mr. Michael oversaw a trendsetting show that made liberal use of action highlights from games in addition to interviews and other reports. &#8220;The George Michael Sports Machine,&#8221; as it was eventually called, was syndicated to almost 200 stations at its peak. <\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/24\/AR2009122401535.html?wpisrc=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WashingtonPost.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post George Michael, famed D.C. sportscaster, dies of cancer By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 25, 2009; A01 George Michael, 70, a high-rated and hyperanimated Washington sportscaster whose extensive use of game highlights from across the country on his nationally syndicated show has now become the norm in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}