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Bob Costas

royalsblog.kansascity.com - 5/1/2008

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(OK, we'll probably be back to the longer posts soon enough. But just had a quick thought and some links for the afternoon.) Don't know how many of you saw the Bob Costas town-hall meeting thing last night on HBO, but it's interesting to me for obvious reasons. I'm more curious in what you guys think, rather than spouting out a bunch of my thoughts. I'll only say that I continue to ...

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Crashing The Gates, Vol. II
Bugs & Cranks — ... and Mellinger supplement their journalistic work with their blogs, as the KC Star will not publish everything they write due to space constraints. Both their blogs and their work for the “dead wood” product are excellent and supplement each other. Second, the access available to mainstream journalists comes with a cost. Sportswriters do not write everything they can or even should as doing so would make them a pariah with the teams they cover. If a writer thinks a player has been partying too much or an off-the-field ...

Bissinger Is Such a Buzz Killer
Eye On Sports Media — ... Take a cue from Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star, who I have come to know as one of the more reasonable sportswriters when it comes to discussions of blogs. On his Kansas City Royals blog, he writes: ...