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A couple of the sports copy editors/designers have moved on to bigger places: Butch Maier worked at the Akron Beacon Journal, Boston Globe, St. Pete Times, before landing on the copy desk at the Plain Dealer. Ron Ledgard left to go to the Akron Beacon Journal and now is the deputy sports editor...

Anyone have experience working with a universal desk that can offer some advice on how to deal with one that is not working well? The lack of expertise is evident most days, including in our layout. We are at a midsized paper and have worked under this new copy flow design for about a year.

I don't think the Rooneys have a history of changing their minds.

AP has it as done deal now, too. Not a good day for the careers of Kevin Smith or Mike Prisuta

Trib took story off Web site and now it is nowhere to be found. No comment from the paper either.

ESPN, SI and Fox Sports are all saying it is done, and the Post-Gazette also is confirming it. Trib still has Grimm story on front page of its Web site.

So does sports editor Kevin Smith take the fall for wrong story on Steelers coaching situation or does the writer, Mike Prisuta? They completely whiffed, not only saying that Russ Grimm was offered the job but saying that he had accepted it. Foolish on both of their parts. I would think Smith is...

After all of the sports writers were saved at the Beacon Journal, Tom Reed then decided to leave for a news feature writing role with the Columbus Dispatch any way. Definitely a loss for the Beacon and sports journalism. Before the layoffs, the paper had 10 sports writers, it now has 8. Gary...

John Harris left the Toledo Blade for the Pittsburgh Trib as a sports columnist. Did the Trib add the position or did someone else leave?

All indications are that Tom Reed will be brought back. At least three of the older reporters at the paper have volunteered to be laid off. Which brings back the Beacon Journal's movie critic, George Thomas, business writer, Jim MacKinnon, who covers Goodyear\, and Tom Reed. Pat McManamon would...

It seems the number at the ABJ is going to be around 40 and include 9 managers. The announcement is supposed to come in the next week. McManamon is at the bottom of the seniority list due to his departure to Browns.com for more than year about three years ago. If the reporter hits are deep...