Re: So I've been barred from covering football I do not know who or where you are, but supposedly you are a professional. Go to work. It's that...
I second and third all the good things said about Mike. And to Slappy, I say, you are a funny guy, hope we find ourselves in the same place one of...
I am late to this party and can not speak to the conditions at the paper as a whole. But I spent 40 years in the business, with papers in Texas...
I am a bit late with this, I suspect. I worked with a few of the guys mentioned here (Albom and Mike Downey) and know some of the rest. Some may...
An old-fashioned sportswriter and columnist, in the best sense of the phrase!
Damn, I didn't know about this. He was a friend, a good journalist -- never missed a race at MIS -- and just a real good person. I am sad tonight.
If you can indulge an oldtimer from the past millenium for a moment: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Gene Stallings. Hayes was a bully just...
Slappy, you remember the same Ronnie, I do. He was unfailingly likeable, which lulled folks into believing him and that was almost always a...
Sitting in the Soldier Field press box late in a late afternoon NFL game many years ago I complained to Bob Marquis, a Chicago writer, who had...
I don't mind outing myself; I'm a voter and have never voted for Rice, either. I long have voted for Andre Dawson and Jack Morris and this year...
wouldn't it be amazing if one of rob's columns elicited this much passion??@?
I've known Rob a long time, also. I confess, first, to not seeing the interview and secondly to not having read his Monday column. But this sounds...
Haven't read Mike a lot in the past few (retirement) years in Texas, but from years of sharing an office with him at the Free Press -- before...
Jay and I certainly were never friends, though we were competitors for a brief time. And I have no argument with those who say he can be difficult...
It's not the most unconventional choice on here I suppose: Closing Time by Leonard Cohen
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