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I don't like name puns either, but all I've got is "Manning of the Hour." Glad I don't have to write this one.

Also, anybody who has sweated on deadline will appreciate this column, from the originator of this thread ... http://blogs.courier-journal.com/ericcrawford/2010/07/21/a-blast-from-the-courier-journals-past-dave-kindred-chronicles-fisks-homer/

Another Royko nomination. October 25, 1972 (Mike wrote this column the day Jackie Robinson died.) Jackie's Debut a Unique Day All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball. I...

Louisville Courier-Journal: "Bricktory" Link to image: http://blogs.courier-journal.com/ericcrawford/?p=2550

As kind of my own year-in-review kind of exercise, it occurred to me that I blogged as many words as I put into print columns in 2010. I don't know that it helped the quality of either, and I sure don't blog as much as others at my publication, but to answer the question, yeah, I blog a lot. I...

This, in my mind, is a very serious thing. Substantive changes to your column should be run by you before they are made. Secondly, anyone deliberately altering newspaper copy so that it does not reflect the opinion of an opinion writer should not be editing copy. It's the same as deliberately...

You beat me to it Henry! I kept seeing that still photos weren't affected, and they most certainly are, in a more eggregious way than even online video. (And by the way, from my reading of this, the 72-hour limit on video appears to apply only to online. The clause "other than for a regularly...

1). Copy 21's response. 2). Paste it into reply email. 3). Get on with day. The only time I'll give a tougher response is if they get personal, and even then not too tough. Still make sure you reply to the substance of the complaint, not the tone. Many times, they'll back off and you'll have...

I'm with Jersey and Mod in that at least something different is being tried here. And I'm a little put off by people complaining about furloughs when we're just a month removed from around 3,000 of our number being cut loose completely. (And my furlough is next week, and it's going to hurt, so I...

Probably nothing on that list that your kids are destined to read in school -- except maybe one. "Three Cups of Tea" is a non-fiction book by Greg Mortensen, telling his stories about building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan after some of the people there were of help to him after an attempt...

As long as you pay your way, heck no, it's not unethical. But go or not, it's a great story/column. I know plenty of people who would pay to watch practices. Where is this going on?

As a beat-writer, I usually had the insiders in mind. I tried to do a great many features that might catch the eye of people who weren't caught up in the day-to-day of the team, but the primary audience was that team's fans. Writing a column, it's much wider, and I must admit that I'm more...

Has this nation produced a more versatile writer than Updike? I don't think so.

The "deadly minds that are destroying American news organizations" are the ones who think that twittering a toddler's funeral is true journalism.

Looks like those naming rights average $2.1 million per year. The 12-year deal goes through 2014, with a 12-year option after that.

Hint or no hint, he's the first guy I'd pick for that back page. Though there are certainly others I'd love to see there too.

Not as bad as the full-page house ad for our pet web site that ran for three consecutive days in our paper a couple of weeks back.

Those circulation figures identify exactly how no-longer-literate the public is. All right, maybe literate is too strong a word. But beyond a thousand words, you're losing the vast majority of the American public. In some circles that count most, the New Yorker retains huge influence.

Looks to me like there was one reporter from the Cincinnati Enquirer, and one from the Lexington Herald-Leader at the race. And that's it. The rest were smaller papers, or the large number of Cincinnati TV and radio people who flock to the race and may or may not be working. I haven't been...

My only qualm -- I don't think I'd ever consider covering an NBA beat a "plush" job.