the one that got me to want to be a sportswriter: Mike Lupica
the ones who got me to drop out and think all journalists are scum: every other one ever
Lupica sucks. he's completely out of touch.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Dr. Z, Verducci, Heyman, Lenny Pasquarelli, Buster Olney, Larry Brooks
guys who suck:
Peter Vescey, Mitch Lawrence, Peter King, Jim Caple
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Dr. Z, Verducci, Heyman, Lenny Pasquarelli, Buster Olney, Larry Brooks
guys who suck:
Peter Vescey, Mitch Lawrence, Peter King, Jim Caple
Buster and Verducci are very good.
King has become too full of himself.
many writers are guilty of this...but I can deal with it if they're still putting out good stuff. I am convinced that most people in the RM sports forum know more about football than Peter King. He literally knows nothing about the technical aspects of the game....and cannot analyze a game or matchup to save is life. If you want human interest puff pieces about the time Brett Favre shot a deer, then he's your man. Give me someone who's breaking down tape and actually watching games instead.....
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
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Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
chinofstone wrote:
Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
current guys I like:
Dr. Z, Verducci, Heyman, Lenny Pasquarelli, Buster Olney, Larry Brooks
guys who suck:
Peter Vescey, Mitch Lawrence, Peter King, Jim Caple
Buster and Verducci are very good.
King has become too full of himself.
many writers are guilty of this...but I can deal with it if they're still putting out good stuff. I am convinced that most people in the RM sports forum know more about football than Peter King. He literally knows nothing about the technical aspects of the game....and cannot analyze a game or matchup to save is life. If you want human interest puff pieces about the time Brett Favre shot a deer, then he's your man. Give me someone who's breaking down tape and actually watching games instead.....
also, I don't care about how much coffee he drinks. We get it, you go to Starbucks. Thanks.
_________________ I don’t understand a word of these emails and I am ok with that. -KC
I just try to ask as many questions as I can, and then I try to sit down and write a story that people will want to read. – Chris Jones
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
yeah, reading about Jeter's fan mail is truely groundbreaking sports journalism.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
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Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
Koufax wrote:
the one that got me to want to be a sportswriter: Mike Lupica
the ones who got me to drop out and think all journalists are scum: every other one ever
Lupica sucks. he's completely out of touch.
I agree Lupica sucks NOW, and he is out of touch, but he was in his prime in the 90's and his columns, mosty the knicks stuff, made me want to do what he did.
and Mitch Lawrence is garbage, he could write an article about a forest fire in Mongolia and still manage to make it known how much he hates the Knicks and how much he thinks they suck.
the one that got me to want to be a sportswriter: Mike Lupica
the ones who got me to drop out and think all journalists are scum: every other one ever
Lupica sucks. he's completely out of touch.
I agree Lupica sucks NOW, and he is out of touch, but he was in his prime in the 90's and his columns, mosty the knicks stuff, made me want to do what he did.
and Mitch Lawrence is garbage, he could write an article about a forest fire in Mongolia and still manage to make it known how much he hates the Knicks and how much he thinks they suck.
I agree with you on Lupica...he used to be better. Is it me, or does he end every Sunday column with "I love you dad" or "happy birthday mom"?
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:26 am Posts: 7994 Location: Philadelphia
Some local guys for me, Bill Conlin for baseball, Ray Didinger for football (retired) and Bill Lyon as a Columnist.
Nationally I have always liked Rick Riley, Buster Olney is great, Bill Simmons has always been one of my favorites simply because I relate to him and like his writing style.
Here's a link to a Conlin article that was particularly good a few weeks ago. Shows how good he is given that he's been mailing it in over the last 5 or so years.
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