Bad columns/stories from a star

I read that column and kept waiting for him to tell me what the hook was because I figured there had to be some person or web site or something that prompted the topic. It certainly isn't the kind of drivel you expect from SI or a guy of his caliber.

 

Does anyone have a running count of how many times Rushin's mentioned his wife in his column?

To Steve: You're married to Rebecca Lobo, she's brainwashed you into thinking the WNBA is actually interesting, she's tall, you're tall -- we get it. Enough I say.

 

And in this case, gives riding high in the saddle a whole new meaning...

 

Think of how the world would have changed if Keith O had snagged her . . .

 

Except the OP isn't asking about that particular column, rather how you tell a star guy his work wasn't up to its usual standards.

 

Didn't someone on here once say that Albom had a no-edit clause in his contract? Like they could only edit for style, not tinker with deathless prose or change factual errors. I can understand where a stud columnist wouldn't want to argue with some desker on deadline about the validity of asserting that Dwyane Wade is a better player than LeBron James...but I would rather make sure some dude caught me misspelling Dwyane Wade's name.

 

Bunch of buddies who went to UConn talk about the time they saw Rebecca Lobo and Pam Webber get out of a limo with Olbermann.

 

Copy editors at the Freep. That still doesn't explain why the column ran unedited at every newspaper where it was syndicated. No one at any office changed it for the better, even though it was obviously wrong.

 

No-Edit contracts are more common than they should be in magazines, less so in newspapers.
I have been gifted with great editors in my life. I owe every damn one of them.
I've also had a handful of bad ones and they should all be fed genitals-first to a wolverine.