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I like Schaap, too. I really dug his piece on Bobby Fischer's decent from childhood prodigy to elderly douchebag from a couple years ago.

 

Yup. Great story, and a fine job of keeping himself from throttling the senile old f&!#er.

 

That's what impressed me most. Here's a recap of the event for those who missed it.

http://dailyscorecard.blogspot.com/2005/04/bobby-fisher-appears-rails-against.html

 

That last line? Game over. Scoreboard.

 

That pretty much sums everything up.

 

Didnt see it. Forgot about it.

But I was kind of turned off on in when I heard Schaap talking on the radio about the show's first major story dealing with the broken relationship between Cecil and Prince Fielder. Schaap said, "Cecil talks for the first time about ... " ... Which is a lie. Cecil talked to Sports Illustrated months ago.

 

I didn't see the show, but I do think Rachel Nichols and Jeremy Schaap are better than most at the Entirely Self Promotion Network.
These guys weren't impressed....

http://www.slate.com/id/2176125/

 

Or, since its Bobby Fischer, checkmate

 

Checking out the latest episode, taking the City of New York to task for bulldozing a park to build the New Yankee Stadium which will force kids living next to the old park to walk 20 minutes to some of the new parks being built to replace the old park. The high point was Bloomberg telling the ESPN reporter to "get a life" when he was questioning the wisdom of taking a park away from poor residents and giving it to the Yankees. (They wouldn't do this to Central Park!). I didn't buy the story's argument. I keep waiting for this show to break some real news and with the number of high-profile journos ESPN has hired in the last year, the WWL just isn't coming through.

 

Didn't see the report, but Filip Bondy wrote about that in the NYDN months ago. I'm pretty sure he's done a couple columns about it.