The National Sports Daily

Know a lot of names on that list, friends with a number, and then a bunch of names I don't know.

The really cool thing -- impossible, of course, I'm not asking anybody -- would be to know how all of those people ended up. The big names, we know, but I wonder how many of those people stayed in the biz, what else they might have ended up doing, etc.

 

to alex kimball:

Larry Mirladi - national editor, copy desk


Since you've gone to the trouble, it's Larry Miraldi, not Mirladi.

 

Larry, thanks for checking in.

Dude, that's a typo. The guy just typed 200+ names and you picked out the one he missed?
(fyi, not on that list, from memory, is Athan Atsales. Now an ASE at the LA Times.)

 

Dude, that's the nature of our business. A wrong is a wrong. ;D

 

Tahnks.

 

i'm not larry. and i really didn't mean anything by it. the guy went to the trouble of making a list, and god knows miraldi is no feinstein, so he might have actually had it wrong.

 

I know. I was just bustin' chops.

 

The National's Chicago edition was printed in the city and still the deadlines were insane. It was 10:20 for live copy for the early night edition (there was also a late night edition and something called the "cross country" edition, sold downstate with follows on Tuesday gamers in a Thursday paper, but the same early columns and feature stuff.
That early deadline, thanks to distribution, killed it. Methinks hooking up with a newspaper firm whose business was covering business and the stock market, which closes at 3 p.m. in the Midwest, wasn't the best for distribution.

 

This: http://thenationalsportsdaily.blogspot.com/ has been updated with the rest of the paper. Feel free to PM me with any comments.
Thanks for reading,

Dan

 

Good work,dan.
When's the book coming?

 

Nobody read the paper. Someone's going to read a book about a paper that no one read?
While you're at it, pound one out about the Yugo and Beta.

(I realize a lot of us here read it, some even worked it...As for the general public...)

 

Thanks, Ma. I used a list posted previously and didn't check it thoroughly enough for typos.
I updated the list to fix the spelling of Larry's last name, and to add that Dave Kindred held the title of associate editor, but was a national columnist.
And thanks, Fish, for coming to my defense. But a mistake is a mistake. ... And you scared me for a minute that I left Athan off, but he's on the list of editors. That would have been pretty weak to forget him, since I sit about 10 feet from him here at work. ...
And Ike, my answer's the same as Kindred's--I knew what I was getting into. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat.