Ask Sam Smith, Part I on ChicagoSports.com

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SERIOUSLY, SAM SMITH HATES US
Published 2/16/2007 at With Leather
... , I actually felt kind of bad, because he had tempered his disdain for blogs with some light-heartedness about being a grumpy old man. I wasn't really fair to him. (But that's okay; I'm not really fair to anyone.)

Happy Hour 02/16: Who Will #2 Work For?
Published 2/16/2007 by Ian C. at Sweaty Men Endeavors
... Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune (I think he's getting a bad rap there, by the way. Read what he actually said, not just the pull quotes), Pippen thinks he could not only make a contribution on the floor, but on the bench too, as kind of a player/coach. And the list of teams he could help - Suns, Lakers, Nuggets, Rockets, Spurs, Timberwolves, Heat, Cavaliers - is pretty long. Basically, if you have a winning record this season, your NBA team might be getting a call from Pippen's agent.

Unverified Voracity Snaps Back
Published 2/21/2007 by Brian at mgoblog
... : it also is interesting evidence supporting the economic prediction that changing the rules about who gets the money doesn't change anything about whether or not it gets collected by somebody. I always find it interesting that people supporting the NCAA amateur requirement would rather see the money go to recipients like these "talent collectors." But that's just me.OH SNAP. Chicago Tribune curmudgeon Sam Smith on blogs: How is it I can work for decades developing contacts around the NBA and traveling regularly around the NBA and talking with the decision makers and some guy in his basement in his underwear is writing something that has credibility? As close as I can figure, these bloggers are the electronic version of the neighborhood tavern. You us

Blogging
Published 3/7/2007 by Celtics Bandwagon at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
... I've only been blogging since September but I've read and heard a lot of comments from established media sources that go a little something like this: "These losers without jobs sit around in their underwear, without doing any research and just write whatever the hell they want." From Sam Smith (scroll down to the bottom) to this