KC Star's Sam Mellinger on Dick Vitale

Thought some folks might like to read this interview with the Kansas City Star's Sam Mellinger, who recently wrote a great profile of Dick Vitale.

I was amazed that he wrote it in two hours. I mean, I've turned around two-hour features for papers before, but I thought this story was too good to have been done that quickly. Figured maybe he wrote it in a morning. But two hours? Holy crap.

http://www.heygoodcall.com/journal/2011/9/20/interview-the-kansas-city-stars-sam-mellinger-on-dick-vitale.html

Update 9/20/11 at 5 p.m.

As per people much smarter than me, here is Mellinger's story:

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/07/3127666/vitale-crusading-for-the-young.html#ixzz1YVW22V2H

And I've changed the bit.ly link to the HGC link.

 

http://www.heygoodcall.com/about-goodcall/

Anyone ever seen brandonsneed and Matt Stephens in the same room together?

 

Not sure I get it. Who's Matt Stephens? He posts around here, right? That's about all I know.

 

I don't know anyone who has met Dick Vitale who doesn't like him as a person.

And -- as has been stated numerous times -- Vitale is very good and generous with the local media.

 

Yup.
He once bought me a lap dance!

 

I get tired of his "Dookie V" schtick. That said, I've heard nothing but positive things about him away from the broadcast table.

 

He's a prince!

 

Something something, shameless self-promotion, something something.

 

Why wasn't the KC Star story linked?

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/07/3127666/vitale-crusading-for-the-young.html#ixzz1YVW22V2H

A bit dishonest to link us to your fledgling site -- hence the reference to Matt Stephens (and biofile!) -- for your take on someone else's work instead of us giving us Mellinger's direct link. And you didn't need to use the bit.ly link (unless of course you thought people wouldn't click it if it was the HGC link).

Most web site links will fit here fine without running them through bit.ly.

Don't use us to build up hits/visits to your site, although I doubt I'm the only one who had no clue HGC existed before I clicked the link (same thing with biofile).

 

This.

 

Ahhh, I see. Sorry, didn't mean to be shady or anything. I've fixed it all now, as you can see. For what it's worth, none of that was intentional. Just copied-and-pasted the bit.ly link from my Twitter feed; wasn't trying to be sneaky. Also, just didn't think to include the Mellinger piece. All innocent mistakes. I was in a bit of a hurry and thought of you all here and felt like sharing.

Of course, the extra clicks are nice, but that's not my main motivation for posting here. Mostly, I thought journalists would like hearing what other journalists had to say about the subjects they're covering.

Anyway. Sorry if I broke etiquette or something. Carry on.