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Neyer wrote a post today about the now infamous Mark Whicker-Jaycee Dugard piece. But don’t bother going to ESPN to read it because it’s not there. As Rogers Cadenhead at Watching the Watchers reports, ESPN spiked it. Rogers has a cached version of it here. At least a partial one. I think we’re all pretty […]

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Whatever editors were asleep at the switch when Whicker wrote his column woke up and forced him to apologize this evening: It was not my intention to do so. But it’s obvious that I miscalculated the effect the column on Jaycee Dugard, and the events that she might have missed during her captivity, had on […]

You’re a newspaper columnist. You’re on a deadline. You have to find something worthy of 800 words and you’re stumped. What do you do? Why, you use a horriffic 18 year-long child abduction, rape and imprisonment as a hook for a rehashed “aren’t those athletes just nutty” piece! It doesn’t sound as if Jaycee Dugard […]

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Book review: Durocher tells it as he thought it was

Sharur at Viva El Birdos has confirmed ESPN’s east coast bias, and it has nothing to do with the Yankees and Red Sox. Rob and Keith — I’m guessing you could somehow use this glitch to your advantage with the payroll department, but I need to put more thought to it.

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Via BTF, Milwaukeeans Jason Albert and Steven Hyden debate the merits of a professional sporting press. I tend to agree with Hyden, who believes that there is still a real need for working reporters with access. People like me certainly can’t report anything. The highest and best use for bloggers, in my humble opinion, is […]