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    R.I.P., Jim Kelley

    This might seem like a small thing, but Jim went out of his way to give me a lift from the arena to the hotel after a preseason game up there early in my first year on a pro beat. I made sure I carried that example with me with other out of towners ...
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    Dave Anderson retiring

    i'd like to add another story: i was staying with dave at the british open a few years ago. the house was about a mile from the course in troon, maybe a mile and a half. dave had finished his column for the day and leans over the desk. "i'm leaving now, do you need a ride back to the house?"...
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    layoffs in Greensboro

    this is godawful, but trying to look at the positives ... i'd buy a newspaper knowing i had rob daniels, one of the hardest working college writers in the business; ed hardin, a columnist who can cover absolutely anything; and dustin long, a NASCAR writer who makes lugnuts interesting even to...
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    Sports cartoonists

    are we discussing mike scott? because no discussion of mike scott is complete ... without bracket boy!
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    Wright Thompson says "Zip it!"

    this is insanity. i talked to wright over the weekend and he spent two days banging on that door, leaving notes, calling her, calling friends, talking to neighbors, etc. he broke the only news on this story, that the assistant coach turned pokey in --...
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    Orlando

    well, donuts, i guess you're perfect, because if you think any of the following ... A) being grumpy, B) feeling underappreciated, C) complaining about your desk, or D) doing a byline count for colleagues ... makes steve unusual or a bad employee, well, there are an awful lot of bad...
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    Orlando

    there is NO WAY steve should have been fired. this is a beat where you could have a garage filled with free taylor-made clubs, where you could spend each week setting up complimentary rounds at the country club of your choice, and steve was unfailingly honest and hardworking, always one of the...
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    Orlando Sentinel sports columnist

    can i second the motion on steve elling? i worked with the guy back when he was covering carolina in raleigh. he's an excellent writer -- takeouts, features, news stories, whatever -- and as anyone who knows him could attest, to say he has the right amount of cynicism required to be a columnist...
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