Recent content by Barsuk

If you have an opinion of Fayetteville but have never been there, chances are good you are completely wrong. Great town.

Classic.

Count me among 'em.

Old inside joke. Everything is 15 minutes from Tahoe. Had to be there.

Jeez, man, he used the sarcasm font and everything. :D

Actually, I'm told that once this position is filled, the News Tribune intends to cover Mizzou home games for football and men's basketball, as well as write midweek features, notebooks, etc. It's a four-person sports staff, by the way. Not bad for a paper of that size (17K daily/20K Sunday...

They didn't do much with Mizzou when I was in school, but that's been a few years. I would think, at the least, there would be an opportunity to cover the Tigers some on your own time. But I could be wrong.

Some really good prep teams there with Jeff City High and Helias. Jeff City wouldn't be my first choice of places to live, but it's not bad, and you're 30 minutes from Columbia and a couple hours from St. Louis and Kansas City. The Lake of the Ozarks is pretty close for a fun time in the...

Better get a bluetooth keyboard. The iPad isn't really conducive to typing on deadline without one.

I've been using iScore for hoops. Takes some getting used to, and it's pretty imperative that you have the rosters in there before you get to the gym, but it's pretty great. One of the assistant coaches here uses HoopStats, and he likes it a lot. iScore makes a baseball one, too, but I haven't...

Man, you haven't lived (or wanted to die) until you've covered a Dixie World* Series. *"World" consists of nine states.

You're doing it wrong.

Once upon a time, when I was but a pup reporter, I sent a package to the St. Pete Times. It was one of very many cold-call packages I mailed while looking to move up a rung on the ladder. Roy LeBlanc was one of the few who responded, and he did so with a personal letter with some nice things to...

One more vote of confidence for Phil. Good dude no matter how you slice it.

I'll vouch for SDI and for David. If you need to make a few extra bucks while sitting around watching college hoops, you can do a lot worse. SDI always pays promptly, and everyone involved is extremely professional.