The Last Great SJ Thread

This is funny, sort of.

http://sportsmediaguide.com/announcements/the-last-great-blog-post/

Maybe Wojo won't think so.

 

The point is fine, but the horrible, snarky way it's written just undercuts the point. You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

Pass.

 

I guess that's it. The queen of sj has spoken.

In the list writer forgot the best of "the last" -
Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero" about Junior Johnson. Maybe it does not count because it was originally Esquire story.

 

You don't? You want a measured, nuanced meditation on how publishing houses use the word "last" in what they think is a way of selling a few extra books?

I'll pass on the book. Well, maybe not. I'd like to see how it "changed basketball."

 

Fred Perry was many times over a tennis champion.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry

Unfunny and factually incorrect is no way to go through life.

 

you wants facts?

factually, was he the last champion?

 

No. What I want is some modicum of effort beyond "google last in book title" and "google Fred Perry."

 

And FTR, your wifey is and forever will be queen of SportsJournalists.com. So you can take your sanctimonious bullshit somewhere else. I said I WOULD PASS. Not "everyone should stop reading this thread because I have weighed in now."

Fuck off, Boom.

 

I too would like to see how it "changed" basketball.

Perhaps it was a simple as putting a big man on player taking ball out.

 

Of course not.

But the lazy punchline in the case of the Fred Perry entry is neither funny nor correct.

 

In a particular sense? Yes. And still is.

 

explain.