SMG presents Gene Collier

Sports Media Guide interviews Pittsburgh's Gene Collier.
Pretty candid stuff.

http://www.sportsmediaguide.com/ShowInterview.asp

 

So true that you can't be a good writer without reading. Good interview.

 

he says it's an "easy job".

if he worked in a larger market i wonder if he would say that.

 

I've known and read Gene a very long time. He can play in any league there is, and I suspect his feelings would be the same.

 

One of the good guys in the business, period!

 

Really, really surprised to see he's from Coaldale. Of all the places...

 

Right because Mike Lupica, travel baseball coach extraordinaire, and Mitch Albom have such a tough life writing their opinions about sports from their couches.

 

Gene is old school and a pro's pro. Those who have worked along side of him will attest to that. Money and greed has changed Mike and Mitch. Mike also has a problem with his ego that needs constant stroking.
However, all three are excellent writer. If I were ranking purely on talent, the order from best to worst is Mitch, Gene and Mike.

 

i don't doubt he would make it any market - particularly writing like this:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07138/787066-150.stm

 

Henry, I don't know you but I know Gene. I know what he can do on deadline and off deadline. Like I said earlier, he's a pro's pro.

 

Murderers Row defined: Mark Whicker, Jayson Stark, Bill Conlin and Gene Collier covering the 1980 Phillies.

 

boots, i don't know you but i know what i wrote in my last post.
it was meant to be complimentary.
somehow, you didn't get it, but that didn't stop you from using a cliche, "pro's pro."