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RIP The Sports Reporters

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Steak Snabler, Jan 23, 2017.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member


     
  2. DarkHorses

    DarkHorses New Member

    I don't see anything wrong with what was done by Page Six.

    Sorry, I was never a fan of Lupica or Albom as I made it a point not to watch when he would 'guest host' for Saunders. Once Saunders died and Lupica took over, I struggled to not watch.

    After the cancellation announcement, I was struggling to figure out the best new Sunday format that could involve national sports columnists a chance to expound about their Sunday or best column of the week to expose a story. But then I realized ESPN wouldn't want to promote the newspapers or the columnists that weren't their own.
     
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    How many "national" columnists are left, those who belong to ESPN or otherwise? Hell, I was a major market columnist for the second paper in my town and there were times where I got the town car-green room treatment. Not many, but some. 10-15 years later, there's none of us left. The "regional" voices are either gone, purely local, or have become "national" know it alls.
    The idea this business has a Red Smith or Jim Murray is long gone. I'm afraid that the Mike Wilbon of 1992 wouldn't recognize and would be horrified by the Mike Wilbon of today. PS: I am citing Mike because I know him, respected his work as a columnist very much, and see him as an example of the economic forces shaping this business, not because he's done anything I consider wrong.
     
  4. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    Wait. So yelling about a minor-league hockey jersey isn't the long-term goal?
     
  5. SellOut

    SellOut Member

    I'll echo that on Wilbon (and even Tony K, who spend his early days in radio and often in his column crushing "talking heads" only to find it was so lucrative to become one). I was with a former colleague and longtime friend of Wilbon's over the summer and we started talking about Wilbon's nauseating name dropping and fan boi-ing and the friend just shook his/her head and said "if only he could hear himself."

    Then again, as Nick Naylor said in "Thank You For Smoking" ... "everybody's got a mortgage to pay."
     
  6. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Yeah, that was snatchng some low-hanging fruit there.
     
  7. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    The talking heads draft Tony did on his show once was hilarious.
     
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  8. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    I remember he also once did an NFL "Mock Draft," where callers had to make their picks while imitating Keith Jackson, Charles Barkley, Bill Walton, etc.
     
  9. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

    Whitlock puts Lupica in a vacant, in honor of the final show:





     
  10. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I'm no Whitlock fan, but I certainly don't think he pulled this out of thin air.
     
  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  12. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    First guest, Whitlock?
     
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