News 8 Staff Blog

I was wrong about soccer!

Keith Kountz — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:54:09 +0000

I've got a confession to make, I watched the U-S versus England World Cup soccer game on Saturday. What's more I enjoyed it, actually riveted to the television set for the entire game. This will all come as news to my family and friends, since I've spent a good part of my adult life explaining to them that American sports fans will never sit through a two hour game in which only a handful of goals are scored. Never mind that soccer, or futbol as it's called everywhere else, is the most popular sport in the world. This is the USA and we like to see action. Basketball fans like me feel cheated if a team doesn't score one hundred points in a game. At least in football even in a low scoring game there are at least a lot of hard hits to get excited about. In any event, I decided to watch the USA-Britain game on Saturday at the urging of my youngest daughter and my great friend Kristina, one of our fine producers here at News 8. They both told me I was all wrong about soccer, that if I really ever sat down and watched a game I'd understand the athleticism and subtleties of the game. Well, after all of these years, I'm a biggest enough man to admit that I was wrong about soccer being boring. I'm not saying the World Cup will be replacing the Super Bowl as America's top sporting event anytime soon, but if the US becomes a serious threat to win this year's World Cup, who knows what could happen. What do you think?

Oil flows, shares tank

Keith Kountz — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:47:11 +0000

BP is learning the hard way that being a party to the worst environmental disaster in American history is bad for business. How bad. Real bad. The company's stock price plunged by ten percent today alone, dropping to its lowest point in fourteen years.

Love and Politics

Keith Kountz — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:28:44 +0000

The couple that gave us perhaps the best known kiss in recent American political history is splitting up. The couple is Al and Tipper Gore, and the kiss in question was the show of affection when Gore captured the presidential nomination at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

Hi-tech headaches

Keith Kountz — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:58:05 +0000

I'm almost fifty years old and I'm playing catch up. I always figured I'd be way ahead of the game by now. Guess not. It's time to admit that I'm technically challenged.

Big oil slick, big financial mess

Keith Kountz — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:50:44 +0000

It's been over two weeks since an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. Over two weeks has passed and still oil spews into the ocean at a clip of about 200,000 gallons a day.

As sad as this story already is, chances are things will get worse before they get any better.

Peeling back the layers on TV news

Jason Knight, News Producer — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:49:23 +0000

In order to keep up with the Jones' sometimes even a high-tech newsroom needs an upgrade or renovation. That heavy construction can only be done in the wee hours of the morning while news producers are "making the donuts" for Good Morning Connecticut.

Justice comes 16 years too late

Keith Kountz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:25:16 +0000

The older I get the more I appreciate the importance of time, because as the saying goes, life is so short. I can't imagine being robbed of my freedom for a weekend let alone sixteen years.

It's March, so we must be going mad!

Keith Kountz — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:28:16 +0000

You don't have to be a basketball fan, to be into the college hoops mania this time of the year. The media and pressure from co-workers makes it tough for some people to stay on the sidelines.