Sports Day 25th anniversary in Dallas

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/070206dnsposherrington.142aa56.html

 

[Football_Bat]

Sports Day: 1981-2006.

RIP.

 

[lone star scribe]

Haven't seen any comments from Dave Smith surface yet, but he's got to be disappointed with this latest turn of events.

 

[gumbojumbo]

Considering what the DMN sports section has been like for so long, pretty incredible for so long, I thought this might inspire more reaction, or at least reminiscing when it was so good.

 

[SoCalScribe]

I thought that was a nice, retrospective column.

 

[mltru2tx]

Sherrington's always been my favorite DMN columnist, at least of the three current big dogs.

 

[Left_Coast]

Do they really need to do a five-week retrospecitve? Isn't the one column plenty?

 

[mltru2tx]

I'm sure five different columnists will write a column (Sherrington, Blackistone, Cowlishaw, Fraley, Gosselin)

 

[lone star scribe]

In five weeks, the buyouts and layoffs will be complete.

 

[oldhack]

There's a piece on alumni among the package last Sunday. Take a look and see who's missing. Bayless. Regardless of what you think of Bayless, he was there and he is a major presence, much more so than some others who they list. What gives? Why is he a nonperson?

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

There's a piece on alumni among the package last Sunday. Take a look and see who's missing. Bayless. Regardless of what you think of Bayless, he was there and he is a major presence, much more so than some others who they list. What gives? Why is he a nonperson?

Well, Skip left for the Times-Herald at the height of the newspaper war. And the Morning News didn't take him back when the Times-Herald folded, although they did hire Frank Luksa and a bunch of other people.

 

[lone star scribe]

Bayless has been persona non grata at the DMN ever since the Dave Smith days. Nothing's changed on that end.

 

[FileNotFound]

Would love to see a graphic on the ROI of SportsDay over the last 25 years.

 

[SockPuppet]

Agreed that the 25-year anniversary bit was best wrapped up by Sherrington. A five-week series? A serious case of self-slapping of the back. And, considering how far the current product has dipped, there's a sadness and an irony to celebrating The Past while The Present whithers.
The July 5 DMN sports section was 7 pages. I know that's good-sized for a lot of places, but that's barely there for the DMN.

 

[ARD]

I worked there in '85 and '86. It was a blast. Shame what's happened there.