Columnist, Denver Post - Calling the next Woody Paige

I'd love to see John Henderson or Bill Briggs get a shot at the column. Those guys are by far the Post's best writers.

 

Oh man, Bill Briggs is awesome (and I read the Post online every day). He puts out some quality, top notch stuff. You know what? I'd hate to see him stop writing features though, even to be a columnist. His features are too good.

By the way, never met the guy and obviously I'm not him, so none of that.

 

I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain the Rocky Mountain News has had a lot of layoffs in the past year or two as well.

 

I'm hearing the exact same things as Mizzou from people in Denver with both the Nuggets and column openings.  I think Spears has an excellent shot at it especially because he has sort of made it known that he doesn't want to return to the Nuggets beat from his NBA columnist position and the brass there supposedly loves him.  They probably don't need a full-time NBA guy, that was a luxury.  If they promote him and eliminate the NBA position then they'd just have to settle the Nuggets beat, which they could fill internally and hire someone farther down the totem pole.

This way you handle two major openings by making one lessor hire.  Sorry, but that's the way the biz works these days.

 

I would think Singleton family member Monte Poole could get this gig if he wanted it. I think he's been offered it before, but the dude just never wanted to leave NorCal. Can't say I blame him, although he'd figure to get a nice raise if he made the move.

 

My concern about Spears would be possibly suffering from Stephen A. Smith syndrome: Great on the NBA, awful on everything else.  Could he write coherently about hockey, the NFL, baseball?

Not trying to rip Spears at all, by the way. He's a great guy and a great reporter. It's just that he's so good with NBA stuff, it would be a shame to move him off it and he would probably go through a major adjustment period writing about a variety of stuff.

 

He played D-I football, if that makes any difference, and, yes, I think it does.

 

I think Spears played D-1 basketball, not afootball, as if having played the game should even be a factor in finding the next Woody Paige, who I promise you never played D-1 anything.
Why do I have a sense that the brotha in Colorado Springs has enlisted his friends in a write-in campaign here on SJ dot com? Just a guess, but some of the posts seem like set-ups.
The Post definitely has some solid candidates already in their building (Briggs, however, took the recent buyout; he's long-gone) and they need to reward one of them. The notion of bringing in someone from outside after a "national search" insults these worthy candidates. And if there is pressure to make another minority hire, so be it. Spears would be outstanding.

 

Wow, where did Briggs go?

 

Last I heard Briggs had headed to Fla. with his buyout check to write a book, but I could be wrong. It appears I was wrong about
the brotha from C.S. having seeded the board with posts, per a message forwarded by SJ dot com webmaster. Apologies, BFCS