Deadspin's investigation into Toledo's cross country coach

Maybe he's been so overcome with grief that being near a razor blade would be a bad idea?

 

"Deadspin really breaks the unspoken, but long-standing tradition that sports reporters only cover what goes on between the lines."

When was this accurate? 1990? 1960?

 

That wasn't the start of "RIP fetuses in a jar," was it??

 

Deadspin considers itself the "pirate ship" in the sports media fleet. With so many newspapers taking on water and laying off reporters, it is refereshing to see a web site breaking serious sports stories that APSE outlets have to chase. The Brett Favre foto story was distasteful, but everyone had to follow up. Then Manti Te'o. Now this. There is a big difference between breaking big stories and just shouting opinions back and forth on TV and radio.

 

I've seen plenty of times when sports reporters got cold feet about pursuing a story once it left the locker room. A lot of people are intimidated by it. A lot don't think it's their job. And a lot don't want to piss off sources they have to see every day.

 

FWIW, Deadspin didn't "break" this story...they just posted it at 3 a.m. and The Blade posted theirs at 6 a.m.
It's not like the DS story came out and someone at The Blade started calling for quotes at 3:15 a.m.
The story was in the can and the research into the story had been done...let's make that clear. (Just sticking up for my mates!) They just had not published the story yet in the dead tree edition, but when they saw it was on DS, they put the story online first, then in the paper (which is opposite of how it's usually done).

 

So you know sports reporters who don't write personality profiles? The sentence is fucking miserable (as I pointed out earlier in this very thread) because that's what it's saying. What you say is correct. What that editor said is absurd. The entire little letter/essay was like that, completely out of touch with 2013 sports journalism.

Also, no half-decent sports reporter would have received this tip and blown it off, even if they had handed it to the news side instead of reporting it themselves. And it's the cross country coach, not some all-important source.

 

Looks like he's on something. Or, he's heading out to the bar to cruise for chicks.

Yes -- fucking shave. Brush your hair. Wear grownup clothes -- it doesn't have to be a 3-piece suit but for christ's sake at least slacks and a polo.

And don't say "man" in the interview, man.