“Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the New York Jets” premieres Aug. 11 on HBO
By Ryan Berenz
To say that there’s buzz about the New York Jets is an understatement. No, that buzz is more like the deafening roar of a Boeing going throttle-open down the LaGuardia runway.
The Jets are coming off a loss to Indianapolis in the AFC Championship, and they’re a popular preseason favorite to win the AFC — if not more — this season. Their confident and colorful head coach, Rex Ryan, has the Jets throwing their weight around the league (though Ryan lost weight himself, thanks to offseason lap-band surgery). Their quarterback, Mark Sanchez, enters his second season and is already an Internet legend for his “poise” on the field and with the ladies. Their rushing attack, tops in the NFL a season ago, now has LaDainian Tomlinson, who spent the past nine seasons with San Diego and is now out to prove he’s still a premier back. The No. 1 defense from ’09 returns arguably the NFL’s best defensive player in CB Darrelle Revis (if he ever ends his holdout), and adds CB Antonio Cromartie. Longtime Jets nemesis DE Jason Taylor is now in the fold, as is former Super Bowl MVP WR Santonio Holmes. The Jets appear on ESPN’s Monday Night Football a league-leading three times. And they’ll play in the nifty New Meadowlands Stadium opening this season.
So, finally there’s something actually worth watching on ABC’s ESPN Sports Saturday. The ESPN Films documentary I Scored a Goal premieres on ABC Saturday, July 3 at 5pm ET, following the Paraguay vs. Spain quarterfinal match. Here are the details from ESPN:
Jeff VanVonderen: Well, they approached me when it was an idea. There wasn’t actually a show, it was just this idea about a show. As far as thinking there should be, or it would be great for there to be a show like this, I’m all on board with that. But I couldn’t figure out how they were going to pull it off, because I do interventions anyway. That’s what I did before, and I just couldn’t imagine somebody wanting a camera following them around. The people I work with, I just thought, “This won’t work.” … The creator, the guy who’s idea this was, he said they’d work that out. The reason I said yes is because probably half the time or more when I would do an intervention, somebody would say, “I didn’t even know there was such a thing” or they’d say, “You know, if I had known about this five years ago, maybe my dad would still be alive.” And I thought, well, what a great opportunity to let people know that there is such a thing and that it’s effective and they don’t have to give up yet, there’s more they can try. That’s why I said yes, I never really aspired to be on TV or anything, and frankly I didn’t know if they were going to pull it off. 
Commemorating the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, music network Fuse is devoting programming on June 25-26 to honor the late King of Pop. From Fuse:
One of the byproducts of a movie becoming a classic is that it is imitated so often that it loses its power to thrill. It becomes something to be admired more than enjoyed. In my own experience, the example that jumps out is Psycho. Having grown up in the heyday of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal chiller was too far removed from my sensibilities to actually scare me, but even my TV-rotted brain could tell it was a better movie than Friday the 13th Part VI. Which brings us to the point, how does Jaws hold up? 
By Elaine Bergstrom
