Recent content by mojo20205

Totally off topic: In press conferences, why do Lebron and Wade constantly look down at the podium when they talk, as if there was a sheet of paper there telling them what to say? It is very annoying and makes them look terrible.

15-14 high school girls basketball game. it was 3-1 at the half. One team played a zone and the other coach refused to attack it. For most of the game, the team just held the ball at mid-court.

Adam Regan was covering a football game on a rainy, windy Saturday afternoon in North Jersey last year. He was covering a coach who would break the state record for wins in a career. The coach was not in the best of health and got sick at halftime, so much that he had to be taken from the field...

This one had been filled. Word is the new guy starts on Monday.

I know it varies, but is the salary in the 25-30K ballpark, or lower??

$600/month in PA (in an admitted shirthole in Bangor, Pa); $800-900/month in Newton, blocks from the paper. Commute was 45 minutes. A hard 45: two lane road with lots of farms around.

I worked there for two years, leaving this past December. You will get every opportunity to write, write, write on this job. Jim Dente is a good person and a good boss. The only downside, to me, was the cost of living in the area in relation to what you made on your paycheck every two weeks...

If it helps... I covered the Can-Am League for two years and, if you run the beat correctly, will leave you with a ton of solid clips for your next job. Some interesting ballplayers/stories in that league.

He did all this while wearing a shirt with the Devil's face on it mind you.

The Steelers now have 11 picks in the draft, including four fifth-rounders (two are compensation picks that can't be traded).

A classic. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119283/index.htm

"Torcher Chamber" -- C-Murder

Cesspool to Super Bowl

Since 2001 here's the quarterbacks that Manning has lost to in the playoffs: Ben Roethlisberger Steve McNair (with Tennessee) Chad Pennington Tom Brady (twice) Phillip Rivers (twice) Drew Brees Jay Fiedler And here are the ones he's beaten: Jake Plummer (twice) Trent Green (twice) Tom Brady...

Be personable and ask questions. Have a great memory, too. Go to a practice for a feature and ask questions about anything -- how friendships developed on a team, what neighborhood a kid lives in -- stuff like that. Don't immediately write it down: Remember it. It will help you frame things...