Replacing Kravitz at the Indianapolis Star is...

Gannet possibly. They sent a few Gannet writers to the Olympics. Should be similar interest in US for some of those events.

 

I read a couple of Pacers blogs - 8 points, 9 seconds and Indy Cornrows - and then whatever AP coverage has on the games. Since Mike Wells left, I don't feel like the Star's coverage provides any particularly interesting insight or information I can't get elsewhere/haven't seen already somewhere else.

 

Yankee Fan: You might be underestimating what some newspaper columnists have been paid. Randy Galloway, for example, was making more than $250K a number of years ago in Fort Worth.

 

I'll get my hat and start the collection.

 

Holy crap.

 

If the Pacers don't make the playoffs, I can't fathom why the Star would want to have its lone columnist writing about and traveling for two months to write about the NBA. Not even much bigger newspapers without USA Today content are doing that.

 

Someone suggested it might be hard for Doyel to get along with Ramos. Actually, Ramos will have to get along with him.

 

Versatile, when I interviewed for a Gannett SE job in the 1990s, the publisher made it clear they covered a certain pro beat mostly as a service to the company -- the Gannett News Service -- even though the expenditure made little sense for his newspaper's bottom line. He wasn't complaining, he was explaining after I asked him why they were spending the money to cover the team home and away. This may be similar to when Westchester splurged to hire Ian O'Connor, who already was writing columns for the New York Daily News. He not only enhanced Westchester but appeared in USA Today.

BTW, I didn't even know Kravitz had left -- had to Google to learn where he went. We worked together very early in our careers. Good for him.

 

I think Buckner does a good job on the Pacers.
I'll read her stuff, Keefer's and Doyel's until the Star throws up its paywall and demands I take a digital subscription.
At that point, see ya!

 

If the Pacers don't make the playoffs, then Doyel gets to spend even more time at the track. By which I mean, Indy 500 during the month of May.

(I love how Hoosiers can be so reductive. A 300,000-seat racing monstrosity is "the track." An 8,000-seat high school basketball facility is "the gym.")

 

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Who would be the highest paid sports columnist at a daily in the country? This would be defined as just warnings from the newspaper, not radio shows or national work? Lupica?