What makes a great sportswriter?

December 11, 2007

That’s a question we’re going to be dealing with throughout the semester because that’s what many of you want to be — dream of being — a sportswriter.I know what good sports writing is when I read it; don’t you? I have a collection of anthologies (“The Best American Sports Writing“) dating back to the […]


Update: Michael Vick

December 11, 2007

Our friend and favorite Washington Post columnist, Michael Wilbon, isn’t surprised again (he wasn’t surprised, either, when he first learned that Sean Taylor had been shot), this time about the length of Michael Vick’s sentence (see item below).Wilbon writes that Vick repeatedly lied throughout the criminal investigation and that it was highly unlikely that he […]