Recent content by Q-Bert

I appreciate the kind words here on the board. It's tough sledding out there. You go a couple years without an APSE win and you're expendable, I guess. =) I personally hate the "hello" and "goodbye" columns. Difficult to say anything interesting or meaningful. After hiding in my room for a...

True. Forgot about that. Although I guess you're having to survive in-house preliminaries just to make the final. Theoretically, you could have written the second best investigative piece in the country for 2010 and no judge sees it cause Izzy Gould sits three cubicles down.

I'm neither at a small paper nor a monster, but it seems there is always a push here on the annual "contest results are out!" SJ thread to even up the number of newspapers in each contest category. The 39 or 35 (or whatever number it is) papers in the largest category is always brought up. To...

Is this the part where we blast all those silver-spooned hacks at metro newspapers and glorify all the selfless, underpaid (and shamefully undiscovered) talent stashed away at the Pottawatamie Mercury Telegraphs of the world? Because I've been saving material for a full year now.

No Milwaukee winners in the 100,000-250,000 category, no less. Didn't they used to be in the bigger category or am I imagining that? Conspiracy theorists are taking a beating this year.

Well Poz did not win explanatory, so the ever-illusive quintuple-crown of sports writing goes un-achieved yet again.

It's not being said because it doesn't need to be said. The national contests have more entries and more qualified judges.

Completely agree with Jersey. I once had a state contest judge mark me down for poor page design and a breakout box that wasn't informative enough. I know because I saw the critique. Keep in mind that the contest category was feature writing. I don't think anyone would be surprised to hear how...

OUTING ALERT: Notepad is Jim Calhoun.

The new "rules" did not stop me from trying to cherry-pick categories. Again. Although it will surely backfire. Again.

Also, Piniella. My 'i' is broken.

Pinella's borrowed it this week to try to figure out his bullpen.

Perhaps a tad over the top. I've won dozens of them, and I've never gone to a convention, or been a judge, or known a judge. Did I say dozens? That may have been an exaggeration.

How soon do we start hearing from leaks??

I don't think in reading this that Lewis intended to fool anyone into thinking Shane Battier was the entire reason the Rockets or Grizzlies improved X number of games between two seasons. Everyone understands injuries happen and rosters change. Explaining all the ways those teams improved...