Ray Fitzgerald was terrific as well. Ryan replied, "I'll tell 'em what they ought to know!" Boston Globe sports writer and reporter Nick Cafardo passed away at the age of 62. Montville, Ryan & Fitzgerald& Larry Whiteside should be included on list. Meanwhile, the sharp minds over at the national website Pro Football Focus informed their readers that the Texans blitzed on 48.8 percent of their plays, a decision that allowed Brady to pick their defense apart. Will McDonough, a former Boston Globe columnist of 44 years, was the only Globe sportswriter to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. sometime in the late-80s. Whenever you have enough respect to garner the nickname "The Rev," you know you are good at what you do. Globe staff 1. Tom Palmer, a former editor and reporter at The Boston Globe, said the arguments against objectivity "were dead wrong back then and I believe are dead wrong even more so today." Kayana. Don't believe me? Granted, some promising young guys coming up in new mediums, but the shoes are very large to fill. Editor-at-large in Globe Opinion, former editorial page editor Bina Venkataraman. Weaknesses: Undifferentiated in the marketplace, and likely to lack the resources of more aggressive and committed outlets moving forward. This would help eliminate the legions of nitwits and cowards who shred anything and everything in their path while hiding in their mothers basements. The newspaper said Cafardo had an embolism Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, and Red Sox medical staff was unable to revive him. The playoff run was tougher than the teams 66 regular-season wins might have suggested. Besides, how can you not recognize a guy as cool as this: http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2008/08/infamous-moments-mcdonough-punches-out-clayborn. Meanwhile, Texans running back Arian Foster fell into the columnists trap, using Twitter to call attention to Shaughnessys trolling foolishness. Weaknesses: His diverse responsibilities have led to an inevitable decline in production. Even my mom stopped following me on Twitter. Accepting at face value his contention that beat writers dont root for teams, its nevertheless unreasonable to expect that they dont root for people on those teams. He has great knowledge about players, coaches and organizations as a whole. Tears, my friend. He also mentioned Ray Fitzgerald (I think) holding up a note in the press box during the 8th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, with two men on and two outs and the pitchers spot due up, that had the words Bernie Carbo scribbled on it, and then he said both of them nodded at each other from across the room. His defense of the gamer the post-game writeup which is about as useful as an appendix these days is one example of his affection for the way things used to be done. Hes got the talent to do the job, clearly, but is either unable or unwilling to reconsider his perspectives in light of new teachings. Not include Tim Horgan.Are you nuts or just too young to appreciate a good writer.Look up some of his columns.A great writer who never distorted the facts.He was the vboice of the fan in his era.Ray Fitzgerald was also another great writer. Incredibly, it happened. In most game stories, theres a conspicuous lack of creative analysis, which is compounded by the local medias apparent allergy to the type of advanced statistics that other outlets have used to shine new, interesting light on old sports. If your favorite team is in the NFC West, and you aren't following Mike Sando, you may be clinically insane. Predictably, it provoked a strong reaction. During the 70s, Leigh Montville wrote a weekly pro football picks column on Fridays in the Globe. A fellow Boston Globe writer named John Powers once noticed that Ryan didn't include many quotes in his game stories. Strengths: Excellent national context with broad coverage across the league. He seems to break the biggest stories, have all the inside information and is able to give great insight into the league as a whole. Third, want to pick someone current so I pick Reynolds from the ProJo because he reminds me of Roberts although several of his Saturday pieces relate to RI only folklore. Setting the larger question aside, however, there remains the issue of McAdams tone and language following the Okajima incident. Ill also have a prize for a random commenter in this list, but I havent picked out what it will be yet. If you're into that fantasy football thing, Michael Fabiano is a man that you must follow. Its little things like his dispatches from airports that allow readers to identify with him in ways that they cant with traditional beat writers, whose columns and even blog entries are typically sanitized and overedited. Jack Thomas, the former Boston Globe reporter who wrote powerfully and poignantly last year about receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, died Sunday at his Cambridge home at the age of 83,. He would lecture me on the evils of camel cigarettes that i smoked for some 45 years. Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. It was inside baseball before there was inside baseball: the behind the scenes of major trades, the trends shaping the game, insights on players never before even whispered. Clockwise from left: Marvin Hagler; Dave Cowens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; a crowd; Kevin Garnett; the 1980 Miracle on Ice; and Dave Roberts' iconic steal. Robert Bob P. Ryan is an American sportswriter, born on the 21st day of February in the year 1946. The Celtics proud franchise was in the midst of an NBA championship drought. How did we get to this point? The BU grad is the Boston Bruins beat writer for the Boston Globe sports section. Heres my list, which are all guys Ive actually read: Fitzgerald (You need this book.) It doesn't get much better in sports writing than Peter King. Engaging and open to dialogue; hes responded to a couple of mentions on Twitter, which in my experience is rare. it was the best. It was 4 oclock in the morning when sparring partners Robbie Simms and Danny Snyder went to their room to get the American flag. In that year, Sabathia threw 40 and a third more innings than Beckett with a better ERA and a better strikeout to walk ratio. Proud Golden Tornado. Glenn Stout told me that, 20 years ago, he might have been able to come up with a dozen Boston sports-media personalities. So it remained 2-0, not 4-0, when Bucky Dent broke his bat on a running fastball from Mike Torrez, then launched a slider into the screen. He passed away in January 2003 and was best known for his coverage of the Patriots and the National Football League. Hasnt really added modern statistics to his arsenal. Both funny concepts that were brilliantly executed. While this is probably good for Bradfords career, the decline in coverage is bad news for Red Sox fans. He was middleweight champion of the world, Revisiting some additional key moments, and key figures, in Boston sports history. Or 10 Patriots. Then, right on cue, Shaughnessy appeared on The Sports Hubs Gresh & Zolak show, on which he managed to name five Texans and 10 Patriots. It was a moment. The 20 wins, the consistency, the toughness, and what is generally regarded as absolutely nasty stuff put Beckett slightly over the top.. Egan, who was nastier than Borges without the knowledge. He's honest and stays true to his opinions. It sounds absurd looking back, it was! The first is that he knows what he is talking about. Beat writers may blog, chat, and utilize social media now, but after games, theyre still churning out the same kinds of vanilla recaps that have long been a newspaper staple. A grave injustice. Having met him, I mistook him as a hoop centric guy, but he quickly correctly me, and said Beisbol been berry berry good to me. The better part of that story, is that we were both sharing a beer. A great place to learn and grow as a writer. True, its more often basic metrics like OPS+ rather than, say, xFIP or WAR, and he remains skeptical when it comes to the accuracy of modern statistics. The information he provides on Mocking The Draft is great stuff, as are his tweets regarding the NFL draft. As a young reporter at the Des Moines Register (I was raised a Red Sox fan in Iowa by my Malden-born and Manchester, Conn.-raised father), I had access to the sports wire services. Currently, he works as a sports business reporter at The Boston Globe in Greater Boston. Sports, Doug Farrar has everything you could want from a journalist. For some audiences, tainted by his mistake in moving forward in publishing spygate claims without proper substantiation. Of course, you're likely to get complaints about the quality of looks at the Playboy Mansion, but it is definitely worth it for the NFL business information you'll receive. Click the answer to find similar crossword clues . Nick Cafardo, former Boston Globe sports columnist, poses in this undated photo. Its partially offset by his discovery of the asset that is Alex Speier who heads this list and is clearly cut from the same cloth, but less Bradford cannot be spun as a positive for Red Sox fans. Who represents the pantheon of Boston sports columnists? I found this out when my mom tweeted the other day that it was time to clean up my room before dinner. I was certain the Patriots would lose. McDonough and Gammons for super inside knowledge. 1) Ray Fitz. He was football coach at CM for 19 years and although his '72 team lost to Swampscott High, they rebounded to win Division 2 titles in 1973 and 1978. Clockwise from left: Marvin Hagler; Dave Cowens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; a crowd; Kevin Garnett; the 1980 Miracle on Ice; and Dave Roberts' iconic steal. The phenomenon of reporters seeking revenge on players through the pen is hardly new, especially in Boston. When the team added stars Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to go along with Paul Pierce before the 2007-08 season, there was suddenly hope to hang up banner No. What made the game special for me was the local angle four of the players were from Boston University. Like Finn, Abrahams outlet the Boston Globe is unfortunately aggressive with its late 90s, AOL-style pop-under ads. His analysis is always spot on, he never jumps to conclusions and is generally one of the nicest individuals you could follow on twitter. A professional sportswriter should be speaking to the talk show callers rather than arguing as one of them, in other words. Weaknesses: Doesnt stand out in a crowded market place, lacks a clear niche advantage versus the competition. Reporters will almost universally argue that it does, but what they typically dont address is how much of the need to report it is driven by frustration with or dislike for the player at issue. Few people provide quality draft content on Twitter like Josh Norris. Were just here to play a hockey game, Mike Eruzione said. He was almost elected Commissioner of Basketball for crying out loud. And Horgan was terrific. I would no doubt vote Haggerty, Haggerty and then Haggerty. And an honorary mention of Will Mc. Over the next nine years, each team was crowned champion. I loved Ernie Roberts column, especially his Thoughts While Shaving segment. Sando has all the information you could ever want about the NFC West, and he does a great job at keeping you up to date via Twitter about the happenings in that division. He knows everything there is to know about the Giants and tweets about them constantly. My parents made me a Red Sox fan, but it was Peter Gammons that made me a baseball fan. His insight into the actual business of the league (contracts, rules, etc.) Some potential names you might considerand this is by no means a complete list. He knows players, people and teams and whether they'll fit together nicely or not. All of which is fine, and none of which is my concern: it would be absurd to suggest that because Abraham took a new job, he should sever all ties from his years on the Mets and Yankees beats. Man dead in Oxford after family dispute - The Boston Globe Man dead in Oxford after family dispute By Ava Sasani Globe Correspondent, Updated March 27, 2022, 5:45 p. Four people were killed and seven injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at Oxford High School in Oakland County, roughly 45 minutes northwest of Detroit. Even if they wrote columns in Boston they were really reporters first and foremost. The playoff run was tougher than the teams 66 regular-season wins might have suggested. And for the record, he was very gracious about my verbal implosion. It was full of tid bits and humor and occasionally an inside scoop. Turd one would think that this was Bruces attempt at playing to the masses after last week but you just never know. It appeared the series would be tied at 2 when the Lakers took an 18-point halftime lead in Game 4 in Los Angeles. Russell was awarded the Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama in 2011, the nation's highest civilian honor. Constructs arguments rather than arguing opinions. Secondly, McDonough. Marvin Hagler winning the. Players love him, fans love him and other journalists love him. james.mcbride@globe.com . However, if you ever need to know the inside and outs of the draft, look to Kiper to provide some quality information. He also loves his mom, which is a great thing. Joseph Lipchitz named managing partner at Saul Ewing in Boston February 22, 2023 at 4:59 p.m. Attorney Joseph Lipchitz, a former military prosecutor and ace media lawyer, has been named. In that spirit, everything he might want to know about me can be found here. a lot of your list were beat writers and not columnists. Its not that all the old-timers are badits more that its bad that there are so many old-timers. Winning titles was nothing new for John Havlicek and Don Nelson, but for Cowens, veteran rebound ace Paul Silas, and young backcourt stars Jo Jo White and Don Chaney, it would be a career first. After his more than 30 years at the Globe, everybody knows the columnists shtick: Be contrarian, be over the top, and, if at all possible, be part of the story. Well, of course Bleacher Report is going to make their own list. First, the football writer Tom E. Curran, of Comcast SportsNet New England, took to Twitter, writing that Shaughnessy couldnt name 5 Texans. Jim Trotter is what I like to call a serial tweeter. Gammons would compare the Sox to battles from mythology and make it work. This is Detroits best sports writers, isnt it? Jim McBride Retweeted. Bestmuddy waters these days. Seriously, move onto the next slide already. I never really considered McDonough a columnist, but more of an information guy. 1) All 3 are globies back in the days of the best sports section in the country. I once interviewed him for my high school newspaper, in about 1966. very nice guy. In the playoffs against Oakland, the Patriots famously got robbed (at least according to anyone with Boston blood) when Sugar Bear Hamilton was called for roughing the passer. The players, who called him "Scoop," alternately respected and resented the Boston Globe writer. Chad Finn tells us that Massarotti is no dummy, and I believe that. He wrote about some of the famous things he remembered seeing during his years at the Globe, like watching Harvard tie Yale on a 2-point conversion play with no time left on the clock in that famous 29-29 tie in 1968while he was standing in the middle of the field! He does a fantastic job covering the Patriots and the rest of the information he provides is generally awesome also. None with more panache than Brady. Dave Cowens was renowned for his intensity, but he played with particular passion in Game 7 of the 1974 NBA Finals versus the Milwaukee Bucks because he felt he had let his team down with a 5-for-19 showing in a losing Game 6. Shauhnessy Got to absolutley love the contraian "curly red-head".!!! Jim O'Connor, who coached his Catholic Memorial football team in the inaugural Eastern Massachusetts Super Bowl in 1972, died early Saturday morning at his home in Norwood at age 87. There must be someone out there in the sports writers fraternity who remembers The Colonel. So, a focused Cowens responded with a stellar 28-point, 14-rebound game as the Celtics prevailed, 102-87. I think he does, and so do you. The commentary that accompanied each pick was hilarious. My time will be spent elsewhere, on writers with more substantive agendas to pursue. It set the stage for Kevin Garnetts (pictured) Anything is possible! yell after winning the. WEEI.coms Alex Speier, who specializes in incorporating advanced stats into articles meant for the average fanand who is therefore one of the citys few inventive sportswriterstold me that everything has changed now that readers no longer depend on print for all their news. Simply put, Speiers as good as youll find in this market at present, and if comments like Gammons are to be believed, would stack up well across the pool of national writers. display: none; keeps you up to date on the big news and best articles related to the NFL. My list of those inducted on the first ballot would match yours Montville, Fitzgerald, Ryan. I wanted to talk about what a bitter pill it was, Lucchino recalled months later. The truth is that ESPN does a fine job at covering the NFL and their analysts, like John Clayton, provide great information on Twitter. He's a highly respected journalist. The Globe and Mail Sports section provides sports news, post-game analysis, in-depth features and video on Canada's teams. If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. As I stood beside him on that February night, it occurred to me: Barrier-breaking journalist Lesley Visser is seen covering Patriots training camp in 1976, her first year on the beat. Jackie MacMullan remembers Larry Bird once saying, Bob Ryan, hes as famous as we are. Butover time, the citys sports punditocracy has expanded to include not just the truly wise, like Ryan, but any sportswriter willing to blow hot air. The way the local media covers games is stuck in the past, too. As a Boston Globe staff writer for almost 20 years, Shira reported on all four major Boston professional teams, the NBA Finals, the World Series, the Olympics and the Boston Marathon. Ray Fitzgerald. Thats the way I did it.. Gammons and McDonough were great reporters. Ernie Roberts, the bespectacled, gentlemanly editor used the region's smaller newspapers and college. By advantaging data at the expense of overheated speculation, McAdams voice has always been one to listen to and look forward to. I meant that some of YOU (meaning the readers) might not think he deserves to be considered. Massarotti, however, is less than grounded by facts. Always. I just look at this as something for my portfolio of basketball experiences. And I regard this first Celtics championship I was privileged to cover as a highlight in my portfolio of journalistic experiences. You never get this with Edes, which is a bonus as far as Im concerned. As for numbers, Abraham will use them, but perhaps not to the extent he should: his dismissal of Miguel Cabreras value, for example, was curious. When the Globe made me the first woman to cover the NFL as a beat in 1976, I had no idea what to expect. But the Celtics took care of the Pistons in six, setting up a showdown with their rivals, the Kobe Bryant led-Lakers. The credentials said No Women or Children in the Press Box, and I had no locker room access, but the 76 Patriots were magnificent. There is one thing you should know. }Customer Service, Vice President, Innovation & Strategic Initiatives, Senior Assistant Managing Editor, Express Desk, Senior Assistant Managing Editor, Production, Senior Assistant Managing Editor for Audience Experience, Senior Assistant Managing Editor for culture, talent, and development, Assistant Managing Editor, Hiring and Development, Manager of Programs and Operations, Opinion, Love Letters Columnist and Features Writer, Director of Visual Strategy for Globe Opinion, Editor, Sunday real estate and realestate.boston.com, Assistant Business Editor for News Innovation, Senior editor for multimedia storytelling, Editor of the Great Divide education team, Editor-at-large in Globe Opinion, former editorial page editor. Here's how they voted, and why. Columns are written, statements are made simply to generate buzz. The good old days are gone as far as Boston columnists are concerned. In 2010 going on 2011, the Boston Heralds content management system is still producing stories with a second page that consists of one sentence. Im sorry, but leaving him off is like leaving Lawrence Olivier off a Best Actors list because he only did Shakespeare, really.. Adam Caplan has a wide range of knowledge concerning every team in the NFL. Hes transformed himself from a sharp Patriots reporter for the Herald into a contrarian media personality. His radio cohost, the former Red Sox reporter Tony Massarotti, has done the same thing, if somewhat more shrilly. However, when you need a good break from your day and need to know if Tom Brady was mentioned more than Eli Manning on SportsCenterlast week, Deadspin is the place to go. He was covering spring training in Fort Myers, Florida when he passed away. . Usually, sports reporters give more. There has to be a willingness to put yourself out there and make statements without knowing what youre talking about, Rich Levine, an online columnist for CSNNE, told me. And while hes not in the camp attacking statistics, neither has he embraced them the way that peers like Speier have. Which leads to the logical conclusion that he understands exactly what his place is in the market, and is filling it intentionally. I guarantee that if you follow Lombardi, you'll learn more about football than you'd ever thought possible. 6 Gary Smith . Tony Massarottis defection set it back, as did Sean McAdams abbreviated stint and subsequent departure for CSNNE. I wasnt saying I wouldnt include him in the discussion, because obviously, I did include him by bring his name up. He was one of the best baseball writers on the Herald. Twenty five years ago I would have said Shaughnessy 3 but hes been so wrapped up in himself the last decade or so its Ryan. A columnist at The Boston Globe, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, fabricated people and quotations in four of her columns this year, and the newspaper has asked for her resignation, The Globe. His analysis e.g. Was Leigh Montville the first person to refer to Bob Irsay as Tiger? Solid reputation in the market both for integrity and rationality. Now there was a stylist. a scout for the Pirates, and don gillis had a sports discussion program on whdh, 850 on your dial, called the voice of sports. Peter Gammons. Shalise Manza Young: Yahoo Sports columnist/former Boston Globe Patriots beat writer Two Writers Slinging Yang 01:06:43 Play Audio Add to Playlist Share Report On the highs and lows of Belichick, Brady and the dynastic Patriots; on whether columnists ever need to admit they were wrong; on the ills of social media and the future of the industry But thats probably as it should be, and the relevant point is that hes not afraid of numbers, or of learning more about them. Comcast Sports hasnt made the same effort that WEEI has to establish relevancy, and because Comcast competes with other media outlets McAdams ability to make relevant market media appearances is limited. Historical sportswriters [ edit] Les Biederman Furman Bisher Jimmy Cannon Henry Chadwick George W. Daley Dan Daniel Pierce Egan Charley Feeney Larry Felser Mary Garber Halsey Hall Arnold Hano Sid Hartman W. C. Heinz Zander Hollander Jerome Holtzman James Jerpe [1] Leonard Koppett Sam Lacy John Lardner Ring Lardner Fred Lieb Tim Murnane Jack Murphy He is hilarious and absolutely needs to be followed for his unique take on situations. Youre gonna get a letter in the mail from the little fat ones mom as soon as he tells her about this slight. From his flawed valuation of Clay Buchholz to his contrived and misleading assessment of the Jason Bay contract to his interminable crusade against our failure to sign Teixeira, Massarotti has shown little inclination to let the facts get in the way of a good argument.

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