What's up in Cleveland?

the relatively new managing editor is from Akron. Maybe her boss is letting her make a decision.

 

Even beleaguered papers (wait, is that redundant?) ought to make exceptions when an outside hire is a double-whammy: Add someone good and steal a competitor's horse. Few bother to play that hard anymore, but this would be the perfect opportunity.

 

They already did that with Terry Pluto; hard to picture them trying it again.

 

Why not go for it? With LeBron having two years left on his deal, it's a gamble worth taking. When else might Cleveland have one of the world's most influential athletes?

 

Huh? Unless you're talking about Windhorst being as close with LeBron as anyone is, I am not sure if one thing has anything to do with the other.

 

I could picture the sports editor, Roy Hewitt, being asked whom he could fire, not whom he could hire.

 

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

 

Roy Hewitt doesn't have a great track record for recruiting and hiring white males such as Windhorst, especially since Pluto wasn't his call.

So maybe he's due. ;D

 

I think that's right.

 

Speaking of Windhorst, very scary news

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-32-353/Think-Good-Thoughts-for-Brian-Windhorst.html

In my prayers...

 

Wow, that's horrible. Found this -- in ICU w/double pneumonia and serious complications:

http://neorh.royhobbs.com/?q=node/60