Yahoo levels Miami

Is ESPN waiting for the movie?
The water's warm, fellas. Jump in at any time.

 

Yep, sorry, nothing new, everybody "researches" everything and puts it to their own use. Maybe Shakespeare wrote the BCS stuff first or stole it from Bacon. Anyway, seemed odd they both decided reporters on scandals were were, in their words, "mall cops."

 

I didn't see the WWL on that list of news organizations breaking stories. Shame.

 

"Initially suspended for two games and fined $250,000 by the university last March, Tressel’s final termination package released him from having to pay any of the fine. He also was allowed to keep his benefits package and was paid more than $54,000 of base salary for the month of June."

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-ohiost-tresselspay

 

What a scoop. A story about the guy who got the scoop.

Is that what it comes to now? You interview the guy who beat your ass down on this story?

 

I don't give a shit who wrote it. That's a pretty good story.

 

While greatly admiring his work, I must admit, I find some of this a bit odd, too. One, we ARE still supposedly competing with each other on this stuff, aren't we? (Preventative strike: Yes, I know Yahoo owns this, and nobody will be competing with it on them anytime soon, if ever; it's the principal of the thing. Why promote the competition? Can you imagine the New York Post writing a story about the Daily News reporter who beat their ass on something?)

And two, does a typical reader remotely give a shit? My feeling is no, that this is completely inside baseball and fine for a professional magazine, but not for the daily paper that, yes, got beat.

 

"Up next on 'Inside Alabama Football with Coach Nick Saban,' special guest Gene Chizik breaks down Iron Bowl video to show how Auburn pulled off that incredible victory."

 

I think the appetite in Miami for the subject makes this worthwhile, albeit odd. Agree with SF_E that it was inside baseball, but people generally love the back story. It answered a lot of questions being asked about the validity of the reporting, how it came to be, how exhaustive the process was. It read like a cop solves crime story. I liked it.
I'm just glad they didn't make SMD write it. That would have been punitive.

 

I agree. I think a lot of people reading this in the newspaper, i.e. old folks, had never heard of Robinson and thought of Yahoo! has a search engine, or not at all.