Wilbon v. Feinstein - What the Hell?

[Piotr Rasputin]

SI tried to make up for it by doing a spoof of their own "Bag it Michael" with a "Don't bad it Michael" cover later.

I'd heard that he would talk to Reilly when he was still at SI. I think Reilly did a rare feature where he traveled with the Bulls, which was the first time he talked to SI since his second stint in Chicago. I remember a couple big cover stories on him when he was in Washington, but I don't remember who wrote them or if Jordan talked to them (I think he did though...).

Still a great, hilarious read:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004945/index.htm

Steve Wulf soon found himself at Time Magazine.

One of those with more knowledge than me can hopefully answer if that was coincidence or not.

 

[drakescoffeecake]

"Someone should give him the "Almost Famous" speech about "these guys are not your friends." Because really ... they're not."

I could be a little off on the timeline here -- and I'm not sure how relevant it is -- but I believe Wilbon and Jordan and Jordan's family all became friendly while MJ was still in school. In other words, before Wilbon was WILBON and Jordan was JORDAN.

That might explain why their relationship is a little different than Journalist A happens to like Player A much more than Player B and that's how it plays out in his work. Perhaps the original Wilbon-Jordan relationship allowed him to forge similar ties with Tiger as he gained control of the universe?

Carry on...

LW

Hey, I'd be happy to be wrong about that. It would definitely make me feel better about the way he's reacting. But ... I still think it's on him to do a "full disclosure" in that case -- I'd never heard that, and if you didn't know that, the perception is what I'd stated above. And if he really is that personally close to Jordan he needs to say, "I'm really close friends with him, I can't remain objective about this." Or his bosses need to say that, or Tony K needs to say that.

Found it interesting a comment he made on PTI the other day, regarding Daly being mad at the writer for airing "private" indescretions: Wilbon said (paraphrase), "If you want to keep it private, don't be indiscrete."

If someone had said something similar that smugly about Tiger ....

 

[poindexter]

I still have no idea what Jordan's wife looiks like.

Bob Costas does... He asked Jordan if she was his mother in the celebration after a championship...

Jordan: That's my wife.
Costas: Sorry, the champagne got in my eyes.

 

[Moderator1]

Feinstein posted about this "story" today. Feud is over

http://www.feinsteinonthebrink.com/index.php