Recent content by anonymousprick

The mere fact that people with editorial decision-making powers so routinely consider frivolous horseshirt like "An alderman didn't stand for the pledge!" to be more important news than budget issues goes a good deal toward explaining why 1. No one trusts the media anymore and 2. How our country...

OK, this doesn't compare to the life-and-death situations on this thread, but ... a couple years back at one of the major national sports websites, they had one of their photo editors spend his weekend training a newly hired photo editor, then brought the first one in on Monday morning and told...

I tuned out Muscnick for good about 20 years ago, after I had read one too many columns in which he wagged his finger about how Person A had no morals or Person B contributed to the downfall of society or Person C sold out for this or that reason ... and then almost without fail there would be...

When assigned to a game involving a Boston team, Adelson basically just plugs the team names and final score into his "Panicking Boston fans!!!" template: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ea-bruins_stifle_lightning_051911

You're doing the former a big disservice there by lumping him in with the latter. Gross is a reporter who has paid his dues. Hunt, ask those who worked with her for any of the several outlets at which she's done her damage then been asked to take her act elsewhere, places which include Sherdog...

Those who have posted the many variations of the "UFC is a fad that won't last" theme on here since about 2005 or so don't seem to have much to say.

Right, but there's a difference between what you think of the action once the bell rings and the business models. The two sports might draw different audiences, but the business comparison between the two is absolutely valid. Dana White took a lot of what was wrong with the boxing model and...

Boxing needs to learn from the things UFC gets right. Boxing gives fans who shell out money for PPV a big-name main event and 2-3 hours of crap on the undercard. UFC PPVs usually run 4-5 fights deep with name fighters the fans care about. If a boxing main event sucks, the fans feel ripped off...

Station is in trouble because their market niche is Las Vegas locals and when the economy cratered, Vegas might have gotten it worse than anywhere in the country. The fact the UFC makes money hand over fist is keeping the Station afloat.

I think the idea that people only go to AOL or Yahoo because of their portals is silly. I never went to Yahoo for sports news before they hired a solid crew that began producing quality content, and likewise, I never went to AOL Sports for any reason before I started noticing over the past year...

Was working on a preview for a D-1 football team for one of those newsstand preview mags. First time ever talking to the team's coach, who was still relatively new to his gig. Coach had just landed his first national-attention grabber of a recruit, a QB is now an NFL backup. After...

There is a small group of journalists who will find employment at one shop or another for a good long while because they were smart enough to get in on the ground floor with MMA, a niche with an enormous Internet following. And did so at the time everyone else snickered at MMA and called it a...

Only if one thinks Belichick screwed up by quitting the Jets, which would certainly be a curious position to take at this point.

Not a dime.

We had one of those "New Sheriff In Town" blowhards you come across from time to time in this business take over the department about six weeks before Christmas. He decides he wants to clean house, bring in his own people, etc. His method of driving me out of town was to have me work the late...