Brian Meehan RIP

[silvercharm]

Long-time journalist. Spent the past 8-10 years or so working sports at The Oregonian, mostly as a columnist. Good guy.

 

[DougDascenzo]

Terrible news.

Meehan had a history of heart problems. He went in for his third open-heart surgery last week and never regained consciousness. He passed away Tuesday afternoon.

RIP.

 

[Kappa]

A tremendous loss. He was the best, personally and professionally. All of us are poorer for Brian's death.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Obit is here.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/07/sports_columnist_brian_meehan.html

Nice man, very approachable, very readable, and had no holier-than-thou attitude/big-time ego despite some serious journalism chops. Was the section's ying to Canzano's yang. (to clarify, Meehan didn't have JC's hard edge. JC is also very approachable, readable and doesn't have a HTT attitude, either.)

Loved baseball, covered the Mariners on a feature/column basis (the O virtually ignores the local Triple-A PCL franchise), and some Oregon State baseball. Also knew his hoops.

He smoked up until several years ago, at least. Not sure how much that contributed to his health problems but it sure couldn't help.

 

[jps]

just heard ... sad, sad news.

 

[CNY]

I had the good fortune to work with Brian in Portland, and he was as nice a guy as you'll meet.

The O has put together a tribute page:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianeditors/2008/07/sports_columnist_brian_meehan.html

 

[hanging_curveball]

How sad. I was fortunate enough to meet him a few years ago. Very nice man. Thoughts to his family and friends.

 

[awriter]

Holy ****, that's terrible news. Worked at a competing paper for several years and Brian was a good guy. RIP.

 

[Tom Petty]

brian was a quality individual on all counts.