ESPN's conquering of Earth nearing completion
Speaking of SI, ESPN and the future of print journalism (see post below) . . . the latest rumor circulating in the New York newspaper world is that the Daily News' T.J. Quinn might be poised to join the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Fainaru-Wada in jumping to ESPN in some sort of steroids-beat quinella.
(Update: Cancel the part about the Quinn "rumor.'' ESPN just annnounced he and Fainaru-Wada start Nov. 26. So I guess WatchDog broke this story. You're welcome.)
Meanwhile, The New York Times' Selena Roberts appears to be strongly in the mix to join SI, perhaps as a replacement for the departing (to ESPN) Rick Reilly, but other media outlets apparently are pursuing her as well, a list that likely includes . . . ESPN!
Here is my prediction for the state of sports journalism five years from today: Every remaining print journalist in America will be working for ESPN except me. (That's a paper boy in the picture, by the way. I know it's a little fuzzy.)
WatchDog will critique ESPN and in its spare time cover everything else going on in sports, because there will be no one else left to do so. My first campaign promise: Lots of hockey coverage!
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Lots of hockey coverage! You will make Peter Puck proud. I am glad that I am not the only one that notices how many comments the hockey blogs on this website gets for just about every entry.
Isn't ESPN and "hockey coverage" an oxymoron?
Neil,
I'm thinking it might be easier for you to cover sports media if everyone is working under one roof, eh?
That's true, Chad. But by then ESPN will have 15 different channels I'll have to monitor.
TJ's dad grew up in Garden City. Any chance that he was a Newsday paperboy?
T.J. is a good reporter. Mazel tov on his new assignment. I'm determined to be the last sports journalist not to work for ESPN, darn it! They spoke to me about joining ESPN The Magazine the summer before it launched about a decade ago, but it didn't work out.
Neil,
You and I will walk off into our journalistic sunset together ...
Dude,
You already work for ESPN!
But I'm your Newsday colleague!
Bring back Cold Pizza!
From what little I've read by Selena Roberts, she is absolutely dreadful. The best argument against affirmative action/reverse sexism since Phyllis George.
Sorry, Jim, but Selena is good at what she does. If I were a famous coach or athlete who did something stupid, she is the last person I'd want critiquing me in the paper. She can be devastating.