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The Sunday paper edition . . .
Jun. 17th, 2007 08:28 pmI don't usually get link-tastic and newspaper-posty, but there has been a lot of good stuff out there lately.
Plus, I have schoolwork I should be doing.
1. Dan Shaughnessy did a great "Dead Guy" column about colleague Larry Whiteside
If I spent my entire career as a sportswriter, this is what I would like to see in my obituary.
Larry, who died yesterday at age 69, was generous, kind, humble, and dignified. He showed up every day, worked the beat, and covered all the bases before he went home. He was great to young reporters. He was a champion of African-American sportswriters, one of the first to break racial barriers in the press box. He was trusted by the ballplayers and front-office folks. He was neither jealous nor petty. He could laugh at himself.
Well, except for the integrating the press box part.
2. Also from Shaugnessy an excerpt from his new book about watching his son's senior year of baseball. I know at least two people who teach at that school.
3. I am not so much excited about the story in this case. It's OK. But I absolutely adore the lead.
DARREN REIS isn’t opposed to the band practice that takes place in his house every Tuesday night. But there’s only so much loud rock music he is willing to tolerate. So when the umpteenth rendition of the Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” starts rattling the windows, he goes downstairs, knocks on the door and makes his entreaty: “Dad, do you think you guys could keep it down? I’m trying to study.”
The classic American midlife crisis has found a new outlet: garage-band rock ’n’ roll. Baby boomers across the country — mostly middle-aged dads who never quite outgrew an obsession with the music of their youth — are cranking up their amps and living their rock ’n’ roll fantasies.
4. Maybe the best newspaper ombudsman (reader representative) column I have ever read is from today's New York Times. Lay the smack down!
Plus, I have schoolwork I should be doing.
1. Dan Shaughnessy did a great "Dead Guy" column about colleague Larry Whiteside
If I spent my entire career as a sportswriter, this is what I would like to see in my obituary.
Larry, who died yesterday at age 69, was generous, kind, humble, and dignified. He showed up every day, worked the beat, and covered all the bases before he went home. He was great to young reporters. He was a champion of African-American sportswriters, one of the first to break racial barriers in the press box. He was trusted by the ballplayers and front-office folks. He was neither jealous nor petty. He could laugh at himself.
Well, except for the integrating the press box part.
2. Also from Shaugnessy an excerpt from his new book about watching his son's senior year of baseball. I know at least two people who teach at that school.
3. I am not so much excited about the story in this case. It's OK. But I absolutely adore the lead.
DARREN REIS isn’t opposed to the band practice that takes place in his house every Tuesday night. But there’s only so much loud rock music he is willing to tolerate. So when the umpteenth rendition of the Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” starts rattling the windows, he goes downstairs, knocks on the door and makes his entreaty: “Dad, do you think you guys could keep it down? I’m trying to study.”
The classic American midlife crisis has found a new outlet: garage-band rock ’n’ roll. Baby boomers across the country — mostly middle-aged dads who never quite outgrew an obsession with the music of their youth — are cranking up their amps and living their rock ’n’ roll fantasies.
4. Maybe the best newspaper ombudsman (reader representative) column I have ever read is from today's New York Times. Lay the smack down!
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