Jones/ESPNMAG

[beeranyone]

Longtime listener, first time caller. I just finished Jones' The Things We Forget in ESPN Magazine. Did anyone know he was working on this? It's herculean. The best piece of sportswriting I've read in a long time. It has reporting. It has original thought. It has, like, 15,000 words. SI used to be able to do this. How come nobody's mentioned this yet? Or did I miss it? darn.

 

[STLIrish]

What issue? The current one?

 

[beeranyone]

It's the one with Michael Phelps on the front and Matt Ryan on the back.

 

[zebracoy]

That word - herculean - came to my mind as well. I enjoyed it.

 

[beeranyone]

Makes me feel like a hack.

 

[Songbird]

link?

 

[JackReacher]

Haven't read it yet, but I'm very much looking forward to it.

His piece last month on cutmen was fan-forking-tastic.

 

[joe]

My sweet baby Jones is the only person who could make me -- maybe -- get an ESPN The Mag subscription. Maybe.

 

[TheMethod]

Hmm. I'm disappointed that I chucked mine as soon as I pulled it from the mailbox.

 

[playthrough]

ESPNMag's and SI's latest are both excellent. That can't be said every time.

 

[Double Down]

People who don't provide links should feel like hacks.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/package?id=3748409

And while I won't presume to speak for my good friend The Jones, I'd wager a guess that he'd rather you felt inspired instead of discouraged. The anacdote of him asking the cop about Wade Boggs' horse is a great example going the extra little bit for a great detail.

Do that. Even in times of journalism despair. For the sake of your own soul.

 

[beeranyone]

I've actually warmed up to it over the last year. Between Jones, Keown,
Thompson and their NFL stories, it's pretty solid. Much less of that hip-hop crap and fluff, though there's still traces.