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Dear track nutjob......I know your son won his 13th race of the season last week in some madeup weekend non-school league that he and 13 other kids run in. Just because you hold an event and call it a county championship track meet does not mean it is, especially when only 2 events were held...

After this week of chaos I think Georgia Southern should get votes in the AP poll again, that the SEC west really is as good as they think they are, and that Oregon, Ok and Ok St. need to realize that at some point in a season you are going to have to play SOME defense. As for those hoping for...

I think with Montana St losing to Montana, Georgia Southern becomes the 2 seed behind the undefeated Sam Houston St guys. Georgia Southern lost, but they scored more points and had more total yards and rushing yards than anyone all year against Alabama. Lost 45-21 to the team with the best D in...

I have a few good ones that deserve to be on this list. While covering an open city council meeting one of the city commissioners gets his time to talk about what he sees as a problem in his area..."I don't know about all you folks, but I am really tired of all the sp--- moving into my...

I have taken photos for sports and other things for years and I see how hard a photog can work if they take their time to get that shot. Every story has that one shot that will make it or break it. I have been lucky a few times and caught that one shot, but when you are on the sidelines keeping...

A former sports editor of mine once told me this...."If your ass was at the game, then you put a dateline on it, enough said." I think if you go, then you put a Dateline. If you take it over the phone, then you mention if it was in suburb or big city. I know some places that put Datelines on...

This thread spiraled out of control somewhat, and I have not read all the entry's, but covering preps is a balancing act. If you cover one school a lot, you can get a place in the press box or dugout or scorers table, but not if you do not learn how to get along. Was the parent wrong in...

It should be a Sac Fly, E9 with an RBI scored to the batter. If the batter abandons his run to first that does not mean the error never happened. As long as it is not the last out of the inning then it doesn't matter if he runs or not. If the runner had been the last out and say the run scored...

I never said the cheerleaders didn't get in the paper, but from that point forward I forwarded all cheerleading to the news side and I helped them out by covering city council meetings once a month. Was the best trade I ever made.

I have several good calls like that over the years too. The best ever came from the cheerleading people though. They had a competitive cheerleading event at 9 am on a Saturday morning after football. It was the only semi-local event they would be at, so this was my chance to get some photos and...

Thanks folks, I thought if anyone could understand it would be you folks. I miss covering events and writing stories, but I have a job now taking care of family owned rentals. I would like to string a few stories now and again, but I don't think I can work full time for a paper again, it is...

How do you guys keep it from happening, or at least handle it. I still love sports. I love going out and covering events, writing stories, even taking pictures, but the deskwork and the politics in the office just got to me at my last job. I was promised a few things that never came to pass...

I had to learn how to shoot pictures in college at the college paper because we had talented, yet flakey photogs that might or might now show up at any given time. Since then I have learned from photos in every newsroom where they woudl talk to reporters who were slowly phasing them out and...

The section is produced in Gwinnett, but the pictures and stories are sent from Rockdale to the pagination folks. The quality varies depending on the time they have to write after events, and in the past the picture quality has been spotty at best, but that was a few years ago, might be better...

I need to chime in about both the I-J and the folks there. First the people are topnotch. I worked with Scott Chancey back when he was in Rome and he was a hard worker who would help you out anytime you asked. Scott Bryan, I worked with in Aiken and he works hard, but he tries to have fun with...

I have to second or third or whatever about working with Scott. I have never worked for him, just with him back when we were at Aiken, and he knows what he is doing. Work as hard as he does and you will be fine, just never mention Dixie Jr World Series to him and you will be fine.

Well first off, let me say that Jim will really be missed as he was one of the few left that could deflect the meddling from above. I once worked for one of the small weeklies in this family owned chain as the sports editor, so I understand much of what is going on in this shop. Jim is a class...

I used to lay this secion out at the Gwinnett Daily Post. That is where the Rockdale and one of the Newton Co. (Covington) papers are printed. Jeff (the sports ed) is a good guy I always really liked him, but the deadlines are 10 pm, but really that means 9 pm or 9:30 so that the layout people...

As a former employee this is not a great place to work. There are some good folks there, but they will be at the same level you are. The Executive Editor (Jeff) has questionable people skills and is really just a waste of a paycheck. The ME runs the place and Tim does a good job but gets way...

It seems like the AJC wants to become the worlds largest shopper paper. Their ads on television make them look like nothing but a way to find sales. And their coverage has really dropped off. They are also trying to get younger by buying out and hiring younger (cheaper) people, but the paper...