One of the worst days of my life

Link?

 

Really wasn't hard to find.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/81174/

 

Just last week we had "Farve" in a headline. But then, who the hell has ever heard of that guy.

 

No link, sorry. As I was scrolling through this thread I saw Doyle's post.
I would love to hear the story though.

 

I meant Doyel's not the Tuscaloosa Kid.

 

Doyel's story is on the first page of this thread.

 

Ah yes, hard to find when they're so hidden...

That's a pretty good one. I'll bet it didn't make The Tonight Show though...

 

In the early 1990s, one of our guys covered a local golf tournament involving older women. One of the players said of the winner:

"Hazel is such a good player because she just never screws up."

Guess which word he meant to type, but didn't. And guess who didn't catch it on the desk that night.

That would be me.

Hazel's husband was unavailable for comment.

 

As someone who has covered a lot of college basketball over the years, it would always put me in a panic when I would run spellcheck and it would highlight "frontcourt" and say "Replace with fornicator"

I tried to get the tech guy to disable it.

 

Spellcheck doesn't like the name of our TV writer.

It suggests that we change it to "Jihad"

 

This is cold comfort now, I'm sure, but EVERYONE has a story of something stupid. Mine involves a dummy head on the night before Christmas Eve that got into print. I got that sick feeling in my stomach. I thought for sure I was going to get fired. But now, I can take a little razzing about it, and I look at this way: It's just another story for my memoirs, which I've decided I'll title "It Wasn't Funny at the Time."

 

Happy to report that the sun, in fact, did come up. The hollow, sick feeling in my stomach still remains, but two things helped me get through the day. 1) I got back in the saddle -- even broke a story. 2) The outreach of support you all showed will be something I'll never forget. You'll never know how much better it made me feel yesterday. For that I extend my sincerest thank you.