Here is the opening to my Tuesday column dealing with sports writing. I am having some trouble posting this. If it doesn't come out right please let me know: I guess this is a criticism of sports journalism. This probably means I'm criticizing myself. In the past few weeks, journalists [...]
I wish I were at the Super Bowl. That would mean the Niners were in and I'd have great stuff to continue writing about. But I'm not in Indy and I can sit back and giggle at some of the silliness. Like this one: I was just reading a sports [...]
I have been flooded today with emails telling me I'm a bad guy. Some of the emails are unprintable, although I'm too old to blush at them. Readers are outraged because I wrote critically of Jim Harbaugh -- in my opinion, not all that critically. So, am I rude to [...]
Two hours ago, I challenged readers to suggest not-stupid questions a journalist might ask Jim Harbaugh. On Grant's blog I see 20 responses but no one suggested a question. Why? Is it more difficult to be a journalist than you think? Are you intellectually lazy? Are you really timid? Where [...]
I got a ton of response on my article about Jim Harbaugh being boring in his press conferences. And there was a consistent theme. Many readers defended Harbaugh saying he shouldn't have to answer "stupid questions." Sometimes the adjective was inane or dumb. But you get the idea. The problem [...]
By now you probably heard two Philadelphia Eagles beat writers had a real punch out at the Eagles' training facility. This is too wonderful and shows how competitive and brutal it is to be a writer. You could get a bloody nose for heaven's sake. The person who writes the [...]
I have stayed away from the Rupert Murdoch scandal on this blog but I finally can't resist. I'm a journalist and some people in his employ seem to have messed with journalism and messed with lives and messed with the British government and a lot more. I want journalism to [...]
I awoke this morning to a bunch of reader comments about my comments about Brian Sabean's comments about going after Scott Cousins. One responder called me a hypocrite because I said Cousins' play was the essence of baseball but I said it was wrong for Sabean to threaten retaliation against [...]
Gary Peterson wrote his final sports column -- it ran yesterday and I read it in the Oakland Tribune, although Gary writes for the Contra Costa Times, which is a subdivision of the San Jose Merc. I get a little confused by that group of papers. In his column Gary [...]
Those nuts at the New Yorker, God love them, have an occasional series listing journalism bloopers. I'm talking about priceless little snippets. In the April 11 edition, they print this fantastic, thought-provoking blooper they found in the student newspaper at Michigan State. Here goes: "Students cheering for Indiana University' men's [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.