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    Sportswriters who are friends with the players

    I've become friends with plenty of the players that I've covered (college), but I didn't become very close with any of them for professional purposes while they are playing. I've become better friends with a handful after they moved on, either graduated or to the pros. I don't cover them...
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    Ever get threatened by a coach?

    I wrote a column published yesterday on a major DI program in which I questioned a coaches play calling. I didn't think I went over the line, but I just wrote about the obvious. A member of that coaches' staff called my publisher today to complain. My publisher talked to me about it (and he...
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    State of journalism

    This is a very good question and something I've been contemplating for some time now. I've only been writing professionally for four years now since I left college, but I continue to find myself applying for jobs against writers that are way more qualified than me, but also extremely...
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    Student paper stealing quotes

    I'm not that far out of college so I know what you mean because I was guilty of doing exactly that. It wasn't because I didn't know what to ask or anything of that nature. Instead it was because I worked for a major D-I student paper and all of a sudden I was sitting next to writers I had been...
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