Recent content by publicenemy

truly great posts from clutch and from buck. clutch deals with the practical (and spiritual) side of what you will be dealing with. buck with the emotional side. kudos to everyone on this thread for taking someone's heartfelt problem and working to put out good advice. there's a great book out...

sometimes, in a small story or rewriting some BS PR release, saying "so and so said in a release" should be fine. nothing else need be said. but if it's a news story, i think it oughta be followed up with a note that you tried to get additional information, but no one would comment on it or no...

"Working through a source within the UT athletic department over a course of several weeks, Hooker was able to arrange an exclusive interview with Johnson." clearly, someone in the athletic department thought so much of the SID access rule that he/she helped hooker set this up. sports...

i do the same thing. i go out of my way to thank them for their thoughts and for taking time to write. i try to explain why we did what we did and that we know that we can't please everyone every day. all this is typed while i'm thinking, "you sorry @#$%^&*". it's remarkable the high percentage...

i don't see anything wrong with keeping the tradition going, but i've given up trying to foist it upon others. i believe win is a verb and victory is a noun. i believe host is a noun, not a verb. i believe impact is a noun, not a verb. i believe you say "before", not "prior to". kenn, i hope...

to me, tiger is like michael jordan. casual fans and non-fans were still interested in jordan, regardless of game outcome, so i thought it would be important to include his point total, even when the bulls were just a boldface in an nba roundup. there are golf purists, golf fans and then...

this one is from so long ago i don't even want to think of the date: state basketball tournament in georgia. team from my coverage area might have had the best team in the state, but managed to yak it up and lose in the quarterfinals. coach was in the locker room a LONG time. when he came out...

there is one rule i stick to on par-3s, regardless of how well (sometimes) or how badly (more often) i am playing: i never pull a club on a par-3 that would cause me embarrassment if the shot went in the hole and had to be reported in the paper. Public Enemy aced the 124-yard par-3 13th hole...

we used to run witnesses, but we don't anymore, mainly because we'd usually get a witness name spelled wrong and then have to rerun the damn thing. but our policy is the ace has to be called in/faxed in/e-mailed in by the golf staff, not by the individual. and you can get free stuff for making...

we have a pretty serious zoning initiative going on here. it's about to filter its way into prep sports in the fall. i'm looking for info from papers of 150K + who zone preps or have zoned preps in the past. some of our zone managing editors treat prep sports as crucial to what they publish...

major college beat experience is definitely preferred, but not mandatory.

   As some of you may know, Gary Parrish is leaving The Commercial Appeal to become the national college basketball writer for CBSSportsline.com. We're sorry to see him go, but it doesn't exactly surprise us.    Parrish covered Memphis basketball for our paper. The job has a way of vaulting...