Recent content by ChicoTheMan

Approach this one with your eyes wide open ... In the last 2-3 years, they've had a good staff decimated, mostly because of internal garbage. They've fired a sports editor, moved a sportswriter to news (not his idea), had a talented sportswriter leave for a pseudo-PR job, and apparently have...

Speaking of the pimp hand, Jason, how are things going with you getting the credentials back for the radio people in KC? Remember when you were at the NBA Finals and were spouting off on here about the Glasses: "bench better have my money when I get back" to Kansas City, wasn't it? Did they...

How about the most ridiculous thing you've seen included in a media guide/recruiting book? The pages and pages of team-issued equipment in the Missouri guide has to be up there. But for me, it's the Illinois book, which last year included Ron Zook's weightlifting "stats," like he benches this...

Two years ago (before the NCAA restrictions on media guides), it was more than 600 pages. But with a rich football tradition like Missouri's, that much space obviously is necessary.

That's where I come in, eagle. If the biggest problem facing your section is a few agate lines a couple times a week, then you're working at a pretty damn good paper. I would guess we all have bigger issues to tackle than fretting over whether to add 3 names in agate type for hole in one witnesses.

For what it's worth ... I know for a fact that one of the ASE's there enlisted a college buddy of hers to post here and try to figure out who the current staffers are bitching about the Herald on this site. That sums up nicely how bad things are, that management types are more interested in...

A couple of weeks back, a player at Iowa took part in some charity golf outing at the university course, sank a hole in one on a aponsored hole and was in line to collect $25,000 toward the purchase of a new car. He couldn't collect, because the NCAA said the only reason he was playing in the...