Sports writer, AP -- Kansas City

This thread was started in April

 

So now the AP is time traveling, too? This is getting weird.

 

Well, even four in four months seems a lot. They don't have a high turnover, like, say, the Marietta Daily Journal.

 

We got an advisory about a month ago that Skretta is taking over for the retiring Doug Tucker on the KC sports beat. Since taking over, there has been an occasional Tucker byline, so maybe he's still doing some stringing for the AP?

 

I usually don't even see the advisories for my region, that's why I bump the openings when I see them. For example, I didn't learn about Antonio Gonzalez going from Orlando to San Francisco until I saw it here or he got some Warriors bylines, and I only knew about Greg Beacham going from SF to LA a few years back because the AP bureau chief came by for a visit and we were talking about sports coverage.

 

I worked for Doug many moons ago, when I was too young and too dumb to realize just what a favor he was doing for me in giving me the best learning experience of my journalism life.

Hope he has a great post-work life; he certainly deserves it.