Being a fan and covering a team

I'd rather have no quotes than a useless quote.

 

I feel the same way. The Tampa Bay Lightning is all I have left. On one hand, I'd love to cover the NHL. On the other, it would probably take all of four days on an NHL beat before I lost all interest in rooting for any team ever again.

On the upside of it all, I appreciate sports in general and athletic achievement far more than I ever could have before I got into journalism.

 

Grantland's Shane Ryan, from last night's Duke-North Carolina game. Doing his best to dispel the "no cheering in the press box" myth. Ahem.

Yeah, we'll tell you when objectivity in sports journalism is dead, Shane. Keep an eye open for it.

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Oh, he's THIS Shane Ryan.

Oh.

 

Shane Ryan writes for Grantland.

He obviously has something to say that people want to read, and that a prominent and very desirable landing place for sports writers thinks is worth hosting.

Clinging to old ways, old approaches . . . well, you know the rest.

 

Yeah, he has landed somewhere prominent.

He does have something to say that others want to read.