Who wrote the best piece on Duke-N.Carolina?

9 p.m. games definitely present challenges. But that kind of game makes it worse, as Andrew Carter tweeted that night:


9 Feb Andrew Carter @_andrewcarter
Word file that contains my running gamer is 1,831 words long. About 650 of those made final story.
9 Feb Andrew Carter @_andrewcarter
First time in my journalism career I've had to completely scrap a story after having one finished and ready. Didn't use a single word.

 

People are finally getting why I posted this.

Folks literally had an hour. Maybe not even. And had to start from close to scratch with any useful recap of the final minutes.

 

geez, you guys are a tough crowd

 

Were any of these gamers great?

 

I always thought some of my best stories were the result of 9 p.m. games that came down to the wire. Maybe not my best writing, per se, and there were always things I wish I'd have gotten in or passages I'd have written differently had I had more time. But I always enjoyed the pressure of having 10-15 minutes to just write, without really thinking about anything but what *had* to be there, and found that it usually was less prone to over-writing and quasi-analysis that no one really cared about.

 

Man, agreed.

It's like it's an SportsJournalists.com rule now that every thread must also have several posts about what a stupid thread it is and how it shouldn't have been started.

 

We're here to waste time, but we don't want to actually feel like we're wasting our time.

 

The Daily Tar Heel story ... was the writer using the failure to mention Tyler Zeller's first name as some sort of stylistic tool?

Because if he was, it did not work.

No. No, it wasn't.