Kevin Van Valkenburg, the exceptional storyteller at the Baltimore Sun, announced that he's moving to ESPN The Mag, and presumable the dot-com as...
At our shop that has always been explicitly stated: "The World Series champion is to be referred to as the World Series champion, not the world...
No one at the Sun is shedding any tears about this. Monty screwed that paper and its people big time. Not only did he fire half the damn staff, he...
I've always said every SID should spend at least a month at a paper just to see how the other side works and what they need. Big pet peeve of...
Not to date myself, but in my parents' attic I dug up some of my old SIs I saved from 70s and 80s. Wow. The writing and storytelling in those days...
Hey Moddy,I, too, was courtside for Richmond-Syracuse. In fact, I've personally seen two of the four 15-2 shockers (also saw Coppin win in...
This thread doesn't appear to be running very fast. (Our local teams never made it in...)
As a former (i.e. laid off) copy editor, I can tell you, without implicating anyone, that we saved a lot of asses over the years. Good people that...
I've heard Bozeman is being looked at by DePaul. That would be a great move. But they claim they will be opening the wallet nice and wide, so...
'Mid-major' has clearly come to be defined as anyone outside the Big Six ... Or, maybe we should go with 'mid-major' and 'crappy' .... I have...
Seems to me the only benefit to a 96-team NCAA field is useless tournaments like the CBI would go away ... Oh, and all of you who were spouting...
And none of that has a fucking thing to do with who is the BEST team of the three because Utah State wouldn't have even 20 wins if it were in the...
I believe the Maese gig for the LA Times was freelance. But if the LA Times sports editor is still Randy Harvey, who hired Maese in Baltimore, I'm...
If this is anything like the Balt. Sun shakeup, it will be a total Tribune ploy to bust the union. In Baltimore, a ton of Guild positions were...
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