This presumes he still has one.
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Dane Claussen, editor of the Journalism & Mass Communication Educator journal, thinks that the "...disproportionate interest in sports journalism was a juvenile interest that would give way to something more important..." in commenting on the surprising number of college students he finds interested in sports reporting as a career.
If that's a "juvenile interest," as you would seem to think Dane, please don't forget to congratulate:
- the business press on breaking the Enron story before all the shareholders got burned;
- the business press again on the real estate market collapse before all those mortgages went underwater;
- the foreign correspondents who warned us that all those WMDs weren't there before so many guys got killed and wounded in Iraq;
- the crime reporters who smelled out the Jerry Sandusky story;
- and whoever appointed you editor of anything.
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If you've been reading me, you know I harp on pitchers who make lots of money and burn out quickly, have Tommy John surgery, disappear with loads of money in the bank, etc.
Congratulations to John Danks, the newest member of the club. The now highest-paid White Sox pitcher ever (John Danks! Yes, John Danks!) got a 5-year, $65-million contract and has responded with a 3-4 record, 5.70 ERA and a trip to a rich pitcher's favorite initials - the DL (ooooh, my arm's a little sore - can't pitch today).
Will he be back this year? Who knows. Will the White Sox miss him? They say so (politically correct but they pay him a lot of f**kin' money, as Ozzie Guillen would say).
They're also in first place in a division full of under-achievers. Unless you're talking about them (over-achievers, which is OK).
All I want is for pitching coaches to do their jobs and not only teach these guys how to pitch but how not to get hurt, because these days, there are too many John Danks in the world.
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What do pitchers who've had Tommy John surgery [http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/surgeries-procedures/surgery-change-baseball1.htm], athletes who've been suspected of using steroids and colleges that have been placed on probation all have in common?
They're all recipients of their respective sports' badge of honor.
They're all recipients of their respective sports' badge of honor.
Ridiculous.
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The guys suspended in the NFL Bounty-Gate [http://www.bigblueview.com/2012/5/2/2993949/new-orleans-saints-bounty-gate-suspensions-onathan-vilma-anthony-hargrave-scott-fujita-will-smith] investigation have done nothing but complain, file suits, appeal and complain some more.
Shut up, boys. Take your medicine and see you later this year.
Or next.
People always talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Somehow, that didn't quite work out for these guys, did it?
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Who the f**k is Savannah Guthrie and what is she doing in Katie Couric's chair? ... Will the White Sox continue their push when Kevin Youkilis comes back to Earth, because Adam Dunn is already on the way (hello, Mendoza BA line)? ... It's a good thing all those A.L. pitches were only going one inning to preserve their arms for the regular season in a game in which they threw away home-field advantage for their league's World Series representative. How'd that work out last year? Oh yeah, the team with the worst record in the playoffs had home-field advantage and used it well. Brilliant, Bud Selig. Brilliant.
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Howard Schlossberg is editor of the Journal of Sports Media[http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Journal-of-Sports-Media,673232.aspx]. He's an associate professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago [https://www.facebook.com/pages/CCC-Journalism-Columbia-College-Chicago/115604591875424], where creativity and learning are embraced hand-in-hand. And he still writes sports for the Daily Herald [http://www.dailyherald.com/] in Chicago's northwest suburbs.
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