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Link-Fu: Jordan vs. Dirk, Go Tribe!, She’s Hot But She’s No Salisbury, And Ryan Leaf Is Probably Now Abusing His Power At The Quik-Stop
By Jay Busbee | March 28, 2007
A few good links to get your mouse a-hoppin’ this morning:
–First, our column in this week’s Chicago Sports Review compares the current Mavericks team to the legendary ‘95-’96 72-win Bulls…that is, if terms like “couldn’t carry Luc Longley’s jock” constitute a comparison.
–We contributed an entry on our alma mater, the College of William & Mary, to the great open-source campus wiseassery blog that is College Rule Notebook.
–And, tying both of those two previous bits together, hop back over to CSR to check out Eric Angevine’s breakdown of the worst Bulls team ever. Eric’s the creator of College Rule Notebook and headmaster of The Extrapolater…and now he’s adding “professional sportswriter” to his resume. Catch him now before he doesn’t return your calls!
–The boys over at Our Book Of Scrap unveil yet another nail in the coffin that is Sports Illustrated. (How can you nail yourself into your own coffin? Dunno, but SI is doing it.) They’re offended at the hiring of yet another dingbat “journalist” (that’s her at right); we’re checking into the cost of breast implants, ourselves.
–Nice work by Sportable in putting together a YouTube montage of the best on-camera sports interview snafus. (Part One here, Part Two here.) While we quibble with their positioning of selections — you gotta have Joe Namath-Suzy Kolber in there, and we still think that Jim Rome-Jim Everett one is fake — this whole post is recommended just for the Bobby Knight collection alone.
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Topics: Ego Tripping, Link-Fu |
March 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Jay, I think there’s quite a gap between “published”, and “professional”. I mean, don’t you have to be reliable, consistent, and sober to be considered a professional?
March 28th, 2007 at 11:04 am
My friend, most “professional” sportswriters are only reliable and consistent when it comes to showing up at the chicken finger buffet in the press room.
But yeah, you might want to lay off the cough syrup and moonshine if you want to make a go of this.
(Congrats, in all seriousness!)
March 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Thanks.
I’m in my sophomore slump already.
March 28th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
It’s like being a rock band and having a huge debut album…you’ve got a lifetime to come up with the first column, and a week to come up with the second.
Lewis Grizzard (Atlanta humor writer) used to compare being a columnist to being married to a nymphomaniac — it’s a lot of fun for the first two weeks.