DeFord barbecues the WWL

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=111535194&m=111566211

 

Good stuff. Unfortunately, ESPN's demographic and NPR's don't cross much.

 

I don't hear too may Boo Yea's from Melissa Block or Robert Siegel. I would think that Linda Wertheimer, though, uses the term daily.

 

bill littlefield is in the hizzy.

 

Is his whole argument that they should quit coming up with such profitable ideas and give someone else a chance?

'Socialist' is bandied about quite a bit these days, but if FD's argument ain't it, I don't know what is.

Frank, if it's not good to have one entity too powerful, come up with something to compete, fer cripes.

 

Ray and Tom said you guys can blow it out your ass. BooYah!

 

Did you listen to it?

 

I got up in the middle of it to stir my stir fry.

 

This is a barbecue, not a stir-fry. 8)

 

Doria worked for Deford, once.

 

Deford's entity, Sports Illustrated, tried that. CNN-SI's only - fleeting - moment of glory was bringing Bob Knight down.

He makes a couple of points that match the view here regarding journalism. But ultimately, is yet another person who forgets what the E stands for. ESPN doesn't claim to be a bastion of journalism in everything it does, though it obviously produces some really great journalism at times.

In any event, the once-great Deford is now a guy who writes about yesterday's athletes who are "good friends" of his and rails against the terrible, terrible state of the sports world today.

Can't wait for next year's quadrennial "Soccer is just un-AMERICAN!!!!" tirade from him.

 

And the guy who did the heavy lifting on that story is a brilliant producer by the name of Robert Abbott. Robert actually got to share the byline in SI when the magazine ran its version of the story.

Where's Robert now?

You guessed it.