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 While he doesn't spend as much time on Twitter as others on this list, the information he does tweet is simply amazing. On a glorious October morning in 1978, I grabbed my Olivetti and briefcase and began the walk through the Fens. Maybe Tim Horgan doesnt deserve to be considered, so dont include him, there are no rules here other than they need to be the best. Prone to substantial, unacknowledged factual errors.
The Commissioner 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. While politics, finances and other areas of interest are certainly prominent on Twitter, nothing is as huge as the world of sports. Just to clarify, were talking straight columnist here not a reporter or anything else. The Boston Globe / Chad Finn / Jul 18 "Greg Bedard, who covered the Patriots and the NFL for the Globe from 2010 until leaving for Sports Illustrated's Peter King-helmed Monday Morning Quarterback site in 2013, is launching his own independent site, four months after he was caught in the most recent layoff maelstrom at SI." 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. 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. Instead of focusing on their craft they focus on their next ESPN-NESN-WEEI appearence and their writing suffers because of it. Another name for consideration, though how about Bud Collins? National writers (Law, Olney, etc) are excluded from this ranking, though I may do a similar national list at a later date. My time will be spent elsewhere, on writers with more substantive agendas to pursue. Which is why his inability to adapt remains a tragedy. He's an insider type of man who has a great understanding of the game of football. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Red Sox Trading Deadling Performance byWAR. The hated Yankees had destroyed the Red Sox, 19-8, in Game 3 Saturday and it was pretty clear the Bombers were going to sweep the Sox in 04. Id have to go with Montville as well; as someone else noted, regardless of the topic he could make it worth reading, which is probably about as good a compliment as a writer can get. Strengths: Edes doesnt let his ego get in the way of the story, which can be a rarity in this market. In the dugout, Sox manager Terry Francona winked at Roberts. Its a pleasure having him cover the Red Sox. Proud Golden Tornado. 1) Ray Fitz. I would recommend going to their site after your favorite NFL team has lost a game. Best Red Sox minor league coverage this side of the excellent soxprospects.com, and easily the best amongst mainstream media outlets. While this is probably good for Bradfords career, the decline in coverage is bad news for Red Sox fans. He spent the beginning of his career actually working for NFL teams and has since turned back to writing about them. His insight into the actual business of the league (contracts, rules, etc.) Strengths: A versatile reporter adequately conversant in modern baseball statistics, one with contacts that bridge the traditionalist / new school divide in front offices. She is especially known for . The players, who called him "Scoop," alternately respected and resented the Boston Globe writer. There is one thing you should know. There is willful mediocrity alongside innovative brilliance, with the inevitable faux-populist vitriol bubbling to the surface every so often. ET ON CNBC AND PEACOCK. A great place to learn and grow as a writer. He continued to write columns for The Evening Globe, then the Boston Globe, until 1998. 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. The 20 wins, the consistency, the toughness, and what is generally regarded as absolutely nasty stuff put Beckett slightly over the top.. 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. He was one of the best baseball writers on the Herald. Will McDonough, Bob Ryan, Leigh Monville..no one else is close. Its got to be Fitzgerald, Montville 1& 2. Strengths: Well adapted to modern baseball coverage, both in tone and approach. Meanwhile, the Globe has continued to employ a number of longtime veterans, like Cafardo, who seem to have hung around forever. And I write for a living. He was middleweight champion of the world after stopping Englishman Alan Minter on cuts with a TKO at 1:45 of the third round at Wembley Arena. His work, fortunately, commands the same respect. He does a fantastic job of providing key information on players and provides great insight into what they excel at and what they could improve. #ada-button-frame { Turd one would think that this was Bruces attempt at playing to the masses after last week but you just never know. Witness the limitations of its technology infrastructure. display: none;
When Bill Russell Wrote for The Boston Globe - Sports Illustrated However, if you ever need to know the inside and outs of the draft, look to Kiper to provide some quality information. I finally unfollowed Abraham on Twitter because I didnt really want to read about Yankees on a Boston beat writers Twitter feed. I swear that is a real article on that website. Judy Battista brings a wealth of knowledge and information to Twitter. Tough to include Borges since he was being paid by Don King productions to broadcast and comment at PPV championship fights that he would also have to write columns on for the Globe. Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe had his moment Saturday as the 67th winner of the Spink Award. And why should he change? ), Automattician. Incredibly, it happened. We won, but you didnt lose, Steinbrenner told the Boston players. Will McDonough and I flew with the team and often played racquetball with the players. When he does write, however, its worth reading. Ernie Roberts. Right Bruce? No question is stupid or ridiculous to him, and you can tell he truly loves the NFL and what he does. Marvin Hagler fights Britain's Alan Minter on September 27, 1980, at London's Wembley Arena. Ater he retired joe became an official score keeper at Fenway.__My other choices are Timmy Horgan, Peter Gammons and Joe Fitzgerald. Senior staff writer and columnist Kevin Paul Dupont. The streets of Cambridge are flooded, and not because of the rain. Apart from the benefit it saw as an outlet for one of the rival factions during the Red Sox front office schism, the Herald Sports Sections fortunes have been in decline for years. 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. }Customer Service. Michael Lombardi is one of the most well known NFL sportswriters there are. keeps you up to date on the big news and best articles related to the NFL. Dave Egan of the Record-American known as the Colonel. The following is a partial list of sports writers. Bowen tweeted what a stiff arm from Williams felt like. Whenever you have enough respect to garner the nickname "The Rev," you know you are good at what you do. Could this get any easier? Shaughnessy wrote. The worst of the worst? What Id like you do is place a comment below in which you list your top three Boston sports columnists of all-time. if for no other reason than the NFL had few secrets when he was around. Longtime Boston Globe baseball writer has died after collapsing at the Red Sox's spring training ballpark. It didnt feel that way for Sox fans. Montville, Ryan & Fitzgerald& Larry Whiteside should be included on list. On the minus side, Edes can be a bit of a traditionalist. As forward-thinking as that sounds, the newspapers core approach to sports coveragewhich still relies on boilerplate game recaps, columns, and weekly notebooks offering bullet-point takes on the happenings from the various sports leagueshasnt changed much over the years. As the editor of Shutdown Cornerfor Yahoo! I covered every postseason game. Ray Fitzgerald. The F. Scott Fitzgerald of sportswriters. Enter a Crossword Clue Sort by Length . Let me first say that Deadspin isn't for everyone. Particularly those that trace him back through the Herald to the Eagle-Tribune. Weaknesses: Leans towards the traditionalist, and apart from his periodic video work has shown little inclination to evolve his approach.
How Boston Globe writers voted for the 2023 Baseball Hall of Fame Predictably, it provoked a strong reaction. Too many media members, both locally and nationally, are doing things simply because thats the way theyve always been done. Obviously, a lot of young lads weighing in here who do not remember the very best Boston once had Dave Egan, Record; Austen Lake, American; Bill Cunningham, Post and later Herald; Harold Kaese, Transcript and later Globe; Jerry Nason, Globe; Bill Liston, Post. Weaknesses: The opposite of prolific, the cost of Finns higher quality content is less of it. Strengths: Tomase shows some creativity, rather than just rehashing news that has already been covered by one of the dozen other media members in market. Theres good money, after all, in broadcast. Those were the best of a very good lot. If thats the case, theres no question, the king is Ray Fitz. In 2010 going on 2011, the Boston Heralds content management system is still producing stories with a second page that consists of one sentence. 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. Humor is one of his stronger tools, and his self-effacing brand plays well in the market.
Boston Globe reporter Dan Shaughnessy reflects on covering Larry Bird Theres no question. Then, after carefully making a point to praise the work of his own baseball writers, he added, Its like in sportsyoure going to lose some games. Although his staff has shrunk overall in recent years, Sullivan has increased the number of reporters on the marquee Patriots and Red Sox beats from two to three each. The newspaper said Cafardo had an embolism Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, and Red Sox medical staff was unable to revive him. Alone amongst colleagues like Cafardo and Massarotti, Finn is at least not against statistics, even if theyre not a focus for him. I miss reading her. Jason La Canfora is as honest as they come as a writer and he doesn't lose any of that honesty on Twitter. Good usage of both historical precedent and numbers to form and/or supplement his arguments. 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. When it comes to the world of NFL, Eisen is as respected as they come. Im not naive enough to expect something erudite and grounded to ever sell well on a volume basis; Mencken, better than any of us perhaps, understood this. And the biggest chunk of that world belongs to the NFL. If you want to see some of Zerkle's crazier side, I recommend you follow his alter-ego, @PUNTE.
Newsroom Staff - The Boston Globe I do think Borges boxing writing deserves a nod, as was said above, but even in that I dont think hes risen to the same heights that those three have hit. Were just here to play a hockey game, Mike Eruzione said. With apologies to Ray Fitzgerald, whom I am too young to have read. 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. But at least Cafardos consistent. He was middleweight champion of the world, Revisiting some additional key moments, and key figures, in Boston sports history. His mailbags are enjoyable, and his columns are informative, but theres little that sets him apart in the way that, say, Finns humor or Speiers diversity does. Ryan would be my call at number three, but Ive always looked at him as a great analyst someone who can break down a game. a lot of your list were beat writers and not columnists. 17. sometime in the late-80s. The examples and perspective in this article, Last edited on 10 November 2022, at 21:30, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "James Jerpe Dies; Well-Known Writer; Friend of Sportsmen, Firemen Passes Away", "Bears just can't seem to win with Jimmy or Jay", "Author seeks to link three Belleville murders", "Guillen's validation sealed with a kiss", "Red Fisher: Remembering great friend and Haps legend Dickie Moore, dead at age 84", "Mariano makes it interesting, but isn't it always? 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. Well, of course Bleacher Report is going to make their own list. Weaknesses: Shallow use of statistical analysis, though the extent to which that is by choice versus dictated by an editor is unclear. Weaknesses: Undifferentiated in the marketplace, and likely to lack the resources of more aggressive and committed outlets moving forward. Marvin Hagler winning the. very in your face, with a lot of good information. Even my mom stopped following me on Twitter. The first two rounds were a slog, with Boston struggling to win each in seven games against the Hawks and the LeBron James-led Cavaliers, respectively. All yo have to do is read Shank or Nickles dreadful impersonation of his Baseball Notes after he left to see that he was different and what he did was deceptively difficult. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The Crossword Solver found 30 answers to "former boston globe writer who was voted the", 12 letters crossword clue. You are basically obligated to follow him if you're an NFL fan. a scout for the Pirates, and don gillis had a sports discussion program on whdh, 850 on your dial, called the voice of sports. Among the Globe's seven voters, there were no unanimous selections for the Class of 2022. The NFL Twitter account of the world's greatest sports website (too much?) He and his fellow Boys of Winter played the greatest one in Games history and I wrote about it from the overflowing press box. While Ralph Mancini specializes in NFL draft coverage, he still has a great sense of the league as a whole. Now you have to wrestle with whether what youre doing is interesting, Speier said, or a bit of a nuisance., Its not as though the local sports press exists in a total time warp. The information he provides on Mocking The Draft is great stuff, as are his tweets regarding the NFL draft. I loved Ernie Roberts column, especially his Thoughts While Shaving segment. 1) All 3 are globies back in the days of the best sports section in the country. Hes mentioned a few times that he feels obligated to cover off the field issues only to the extent they affect play on the field; as someone with no desire to hear about the pecadilloes of wealthy grown men, I appreciate this. I cant speak for other fans, but I can say that his conduct there dented his reputation in my view. Peter Gammons invented the Sunday notes column, and as a baseball writer/reporter, he was peerlessabsolutely peerlessin the 70s and 80s. Leigh Montville. I have a certain bias (or lack of perspective, I guess) as my family has been Globe subscribers for generations, so the only time I read other papers regularly was when I delivered them. Secondly, McDonough. What made the game special for me was the local angle four of the players were from Boston University. The list is sort of subjective, so I didnt include Peter Gammons, as I think of him more as a baseball writer than a general columnist, while Will McDonough did mainly focus on football, but wrote columns about all sports as well, so hes on the list. In addition to being the all-time NBA scoring leader, he is currently fourth in assists, and he has always been about T-E-A-M. 4. If you want to know about the "what-ifs" and "coulda-beens," the ESPN Rumor Central has all you need. While his favorite sport may be basketball, Simmons does a great job of referencing the NFL on his Twitter account. Havent thought of Ernie Roberts in years, and youre right. }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. Sports, Doug Farrar has everything you could want from a journalist. I fondly remember the Will McDounough Sunday column. One of them was Eruzione, the teams irrepressible captain. he bill liston, a beat writer, bob chick whalen. The planets are aligned and the tomato cans are in place.. 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. Cafardos willfull ignorance, then, is regrettable. 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. His piece on Tom Brady after Super Bowl XLVI was pure genius. He's honest and stays true to his opinions. Bob, Powers asked, why aren't Globe readers hearing from the athletes? As one of their top NFL analysts, Clayton is always up to date on the biggest happenings around the league. He has great knowledge about players, coaches and organizations as a whole.
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. 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. Finn, on the other hand, is a breath of fresh air. A grave injustice. The majority of content that Greg Bedard puts on Twitter is related to the New England Patriots, but as a former journalist covering both the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins, Bedard does a good job at sharing about most NFL teams. The . Occasionally over-rotates, a la Olney, on human interest stories.
Boston Globe baseball writer Nick Cafardo dies at 62 | AP News Now there was a stylist. his willingness to back up the truck for Gonzalez occasionally skews towards fan and away from hard evaluation.
Michael Silverman Bio, Wiki, Age, Wife, Boston Globe, and Net Worth My parents made me a Red Sox fan, but it was Peter Gammons that made me a baseball fan.
Boston Globe's Clif Keane was a sportswriter in a class by himself But while his relationships are none of my business, his coverage, to some extent, is. Meanwhile, sports talk radio station WEEI has stuck with many of the same hosts theyve had since the 90s, like Callahan, John Dennis, Glenn Ordway, and even Mike Adams. As the lead NFL writer for Bleacher Report, Josh Zerkle has established himself as a unique talent in the writing world. Roberts stole second on a close call, scored on a single by Bill Mueller, and the Sox won it in 12 on a David Ortiz homer. His property, Boston.com, is amongst the most egregious abusers of pop-under advertisements of any property on the web. Ya Im an old dog but I know what I like. Shauhnessy Got to absolutley love the contraian "curly red-head".!!! Peter Gammons. Oh, FWIW, I couldnt stand Ernie Roberts. One on how it is his life goal to never run 26.2 miles cumulatively for the rest of his live and another on how he couldnt even drive the marathon route, never mind run it.