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Caleb Hannan's back!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by goalmouth, Feb 12, 2015.

  1. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    ^^ I just wanted to walk a dead horse across the fucking finish line for the first time!
     
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  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Young Caleb has been on my mind. His story feels like a front. You know, there are only a few "Big Magazine" folks who would have even considered this sports story. It would only take an editor at each "Big Magazine" to conference call and ask each other if Caleb pitched any of them. Would hate to think Caleb pitched himself into a corner with the front story.

    "Big Magazine" ...

    SI?
    ESPN the Mag?
    Esquire?

    How many others could there be that would go for this kind of sports story?
     
  3. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Rolling Stone!!!
     
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  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Didn't consider that one.
     
  5. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Gonna buy five copies for my mother.
     
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  6. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    I wonder if that's Jackie's favorite song.
     
  7. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    @YankeeFan's favorite resurfaces:

    https://deadspin.com/the-mississipp...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

    Good line from the subject:

    As Freeze revamped the Ole Miss program, Robertson kept getting tips. One man called from Tupelo to tell him that a friend of his had just been interviewed by the NCAA. The friend had actually been on the phone with an Ole Miss football coach, the tipster claimed, when the investigator pulled up to his house. Robertson knew there were boots on the ground all over the state, but he was hesitant to say anything publicly. Instead, he figured he would farm the story out to those with the institutional power to investigate.

    “Absolutely nobody was interested,” he says. “One thing I’ve learned about sports journalists, a lot of them wanna just go to the ballgame, get good seats, and eat free food.”
     
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  8. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    I'll give this a like, if for no other reason than this is my thread. That, and if it means we only have to stomach Hannan once every two years.
     
  9. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    smallpotatoes' photo editor nods solemnly.
     
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  10. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Well he's right about at least one of those three things.
     
  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Wait, wanting to eat free food makes you a sportswriter, not a human?
     
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