How does Sports Illustrated find its people?

That story was ridiculous.

Anyway, I will re-read some Silver stuff now and see if my thoughts change.

 

Some will recall that Arash Markazi is a guy who, in the USC paper, ripped Simers for the way he did his job -- and I might be wrong about the second part, but I believe Simers fired back.

If you google Arash Markazi and Simers, you'll get a couple of hits, but the only way to read the column Arash wrote about Simers is the cached version.

 

Pop-culture references and analogies are the bane of modern sports journalism. SI should be SI and leave them to ESPN.

 

The problem is most readers have grown up on ESPN. My guess is among the average reader, Silver's references are well-received, as deplorable as they may be to us fine fourth estaters.

 

Like Hulk Hogan on Andre the Giant in Wrestlemania, Jones brought the smackdown upon SI.

 

This is true. Fortunately, there aren't many writers at the magazine who fall prey to that temptation. (SI.com is a different story.) I'll still take the SI writers as a whole over the staff of any other sports publication out there.

 

No, that's John Sterling.

 

Two days late on this one, but just had to chime in and add my agreement on the awesomeness [and truthfulness] of this post.

 

After reading two of his columns and then his wikipedia entry, I would put a lot of money on the guess that this Marziki kid wrote his own wikipedia entry.