At this moment, Mrs. Cohn Zohn is reading the front section of the Chronicle. I am drinking my coffee and reading the Chron sports section. I already went online and read the PD sports. When I’m done with the Chron sports I’ll read the Oakland Tribune sports.
Which is to say I read the sports sections first before I read any serious news. Always have, even before I was a sportswriter.
Do you?
And if you read the sports first, do you feel guilty about it?
I don’t.
RednGold1
I can peruse the headlines in Sports, Local News, National & World News, Business & Politics, check Amazon GoldBox & Lightening Deal of the day and find links to important stories on Twitter (from the likes of Lowell or Grant Cohn). And that takes me about 47 seconds total. Then I read what grabs me. Just as my K-Cup coffee finishes brewing. HashTag the year #2012
June 6th, 2012 8:42 am
Kathy
I read the main news section in the Chron first, then the sports section–during breakfast. Read the PD at lunch or that evening–national news, local news, then sports.
June 6th, 2012 9:12 am
Mark M
It’s a running joke in my household. If I don’t grab the paper off the driveway, someone hands me the sports section straight away. For me, it’s the Merc sports section but these days, I can blow through it in 5 minutes. I don’t care at all either.
June 6th, 2012 9:26 am
Roberto
I read Chron sports last so that I
can savor it. Kind of like dessert.
Web SJ Merc and CSN later.
June 6th, 2012 9:35 am
Stan
Yep..and being a die hard gardener..the weather page is studied compared to the front page’s gloom and doom. I’m tired of gloom and doom.
I like the Auto section too..amazing that cars depreciate hugely…like throwing money in the gutter for some cars. I actually saw a Monster truck show were they crushed a late 90′s Infinity. That was an expensive car in its day..now its on the junk heap.
Sad to report..I don’t read the funny’s any more. Not even Sundays in color funny’s.
June 6th, 2012 10:05 am
Brady
If it ain’t the sports first it’s Food&Wine (we only get the PD)
June 6th, 2012 10:38 am
Frank in Minnesota
I read the sports section first unless there is a an important headline news that i want to read. Reading sports is relaxing before starting out the day in a serious fashion…i figure i have all day to be serious!
June 6th, 2012 10:43 am
Dan
SF Chron Comics and Jumble (easing into the day), Sports, Bay Area, Business, all of the NYT, then Chron front section
June 6th, 2012 11:00 am
Dennis
Since I started reading my newspapers on line I now read the front section first. But back when I was getting the actual newspaper I read the sports section first, second and third. I counted on my wife to inform me of anything I needed to be informed of from all the other sections.
It is kind of funny, now that you mention it, whenever I get a real newspaper in my hands, which is rarely, I only read the sports section. I get most of my main news on line.
June 6th, 2012 11:55 am
Phil Brown
I read Datebook first but I was in the entertainment business for 40 years.
But the sports is next.
June 6th, 2012 1:05 pm
Pablo
I agree with the famed jurist, and former Supreme Court judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He read the sports section of a newspaper, first. When asked why, he said he wanted to read first about man’s accomplishments before reading about man’s failures.
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Sports writers are a breed apart, different from other journalists. A non-sports reporter must stick to the facts, only. A sports scribe captures the drama of a sport event, or athlete, and weaves a story.
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Go Giants! I am confused about Lincecum.
June 6th, 2012 1:15 pm
Stan
Right now,post breakfast..its the internet. And its a battle between Lowell,Bay Area Sports Guy,and Rich Leiberman’s 415 media blogs for first read. Whoever has the newest topic stops me. I do get sidetracked on Yahoo news. It has that National Inquirer thang to it.
June 6th, 2012 2:01 pm
Neal
I just go online, have not gotten a subscription of any news paper for a long time,
June 6th, 2012 2:34 pm
Jonathan
Pablo,
I have heard that it was Earl Warren and not OWH who made the statement. I was able to track the quote down to the July 22, 1968, Sports Illustrated, in which Warren was quoted as saying, “I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.” Sports Illustrated did not provide its source for the quote, though. Lowell, could you send some copy editor at the Press Democrat after the source of the quote? I am certain they have nothing better to do.
June 6th, 2012 4:43 pm
Jim
Comics are always first! Ever since Herb Caen passed. Sports are for lunch, if I haven’t read them online the night before.
June 6th, 2012 6:58 pm
Dr Feel Good
Interesting that you asked! As far back as I can remember, it’s always been Sports section first. My mother didn’t like it too much but we got delivery of the morning Chicago Sun Times, a magazine-type layout. Sports headlines were on the back page and moved forward. Mom sat across from me and could read the front-page news. All was great at breakfast.
June 6th, 2012 9:46 pm