Rick Morrissey to Chicago Sun-Times

Sun-Times is actually in pretty good shape now (relatively speaking, of course). Two months ago, it looked quite possible, even likely, they'd fold. Now, they have a new owner (a Chicago guy, too), the huge amount of IRS debt is pretty much off the books for the new owners, and they're out spending money and actually hiring people. Maybe no paper's in "good" shape, but the Sun-Times is probably better off than most now.

 

Always amazed at how relatively weak those two papers are, given the size of the city they're in, the natural competition, and the fact that I'd think of Chicago as a "newspaper town".

 

weeks after that asshole was on RealSports telling us how newspapers are dead

 

We hate it when our friends become successful. ;D

 

There's more: Brad Biggs is jumping from the Sun-Times to the Trib.

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/12/midseason-shakeup-at-halas-hall-chicago-tribune-hires-suntimes-bears-reporter-brad-biggs.html

 

I wonder who takes over the Cubs beat that had been held by the new sports editor.

 

DeLuca wasn't their Cubs' beat writer; he was their baseball writer. Gordon Wittenmeyer is -- and has been for a few years -- their Cubs writer.

 

I stand corrected ....

 

according to ed sherman, mariotti is not going to the chicago tribune.

from mike kellams, the trib's associate managing editor of sports: "The Tribune is not interested in hiring Jay Mariotti."

from mariotti: "Don't think I want to work for these creeps."

http://bit.ly/4RSQ2w

 

The Tribune and the Sun-Times hiring each others' sportswriters reminds of that movie where Lee Marvin plays a U.S. solider and fights a lone Japanese soldier on a deserted island in the Pacific.

The war is over, but nobody's told them.

 

I think that's a big coup for the Trib, so (judging by the story) is David Haugh going to take over Morrissey's spot?

 

Once upon a time, Ed Sherman was the conscious of college football. His word is gold...