Andy Rooney, 60 Minutes, on sports nicknames

Like most all the others. :

I used to like Rooney, and once in a while he's still OK, but the huge, huge majority of the time it's like he's doing an unintentional Roseanne Roseannadanna imitation.

 

I think he's like a lot of older columnists -- older readers (or viewers) love to see that they're still at it, but nobody really pays any attention to the actual work.

 

When covering lacrosse, don't call them lax men, because when they give up the sport, they would be exlax men.

 

On the other hand, Frank Caliendo's imitation of Andy Rooney was pretty good.

 

They'll keep him on until he's dead. Yes, he sucks, but I'm guessing he's enjoyed by the oldtimers who would freak if he was taken off the show.

 

Andy Rooney would have jumped the shark 20 years ago but he was too old to even then.

 

lacrosse hotbeds? I guess it's an East Coast thing.

 

"For those of you expecting to see '60 Minutes' .... "

I imagine those are the same old people who must be racked with confusion because Rally's claims it has different orders on the left and right drive-thrus ...

 

I suppose I read newspapers incorrectly, because I often miss the little "NHL Roundup" headers and start with the headline of the actual story. There have been a number of times that I've casually read how XSU overcame a cold-shooting first half by outscoring ZSU 40-15 in the second half to improve to 6-2 in the conference, only to find out in the fourth paragraph (when the top scorer was identified as Lisa Smith) that I was reading about women's basketball.

I'm not in the print business, but shouldn't the lead mention the sport? Otherwise you're relying on the "Women's Hoops" header, which is external to the story, to impart that information.