Sportswriter on Sportswriter Crime, Texas Edition
1-liner, Media Gossip/Musings May 13th. 2009, 5:15pmMedia Musings: “Sure, sportswriters still belly up to the bar and the buffet table and accept the comforts of the press box, and they’re still the most likely people on any newspaper’s staff to show up for work with a hangover. But they don’t talk about books they’re going to write or mountains they intend to climb or the useful idiots they are obliged to engage in the course of their daily ordeals. Frankly, I don’t know what they talk about. Mowing lawns would be my guess … The best of today’s sorry lot are Randy Galloway, at the Star-Telegram, and Tim Cowlishaw and Kevin Sherrington, at the Morning News. Houston hasn’t produced a warm body since Herskowitz retired. San Antonio? Forget about it. Though our big-city dailies are top-heavy with sports columnists, there are hardly any worth spending a cup of coffee on.” (Texas Monthly)
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May 13th, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Houston hasn’t produced a warm body since Herskowitz retired
Mickey Herskowitz was great. Richard Justice is a clown, but my most vitriolic hatred for Houston sportswriters is reserved for John Lopez. He was for a time basically the local Houston version of Selena Roberts.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
My girlfriend is from Dallas, and subscribes to Texas Monthly, so I read it every month. the writing is typically very good.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
this will change when texas becomes a country.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Their pictures are always very pretty and well produced, but I’ve only ever read Texas Monthly articles about barbecue. They really know their barbecue.