Comments on: Gun Smoke

By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo

Mr OK Jazz Tokyo — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:31:47 +0000

I will have to go and read some T.Kornheiser..I saw him on tv once or twice and foudn him obnoxious and repellant..perhaps not meant for the boob tube?

By: John Schulian

John Schulian — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:30:20 +0000

The only time I remember dealing with an agent was when I did a magazine piece on Dave Parker, who had just begun making so much money that he couldn’t walk through his old neighborhood in Cincinnati without getting hit up for a loan. Parker’s agent was Tom Reich (hope I spelled his name right), and there were no problems except with the way I wrote the story. It didn’t make it into the magazine. But I was able to salvage part of it for a newspaper column. Sometimes you have to make chicken salad out of . . .

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:51:51 +0000

3) Did you ever have to deal with agents and all that jazz when covering a jock? Or did all that start after you left the business?

By: John Schulian

John Schulian — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:57:05 +0000

Every time I read something Tony Kornheiser wrote back then, I’m knocked out by just how wonderful he was. Equally startling is the kind of access he had to his subjects. Nolan Ryan picked him up at the airport, for God’s sake, and they drove around chatting about this, that, and the other thing. And all the rest of us who plied the long-form trade, whether full-time or occasionally, had a similar experience with a subject. Think A-Rod or Kobe treat writers profiling them with that kind of grace and ease? The world changed for them when the money got astronomical and the social media gobbled up contemporary culture. Their privacy vanished and their paranoia went into overdrive, and suddenly there wasn’t anyone waiting at the airport to pick up a visiting scribe. It was a better world for writers — and, more important, readers — when there was.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:09:08 +0000

2) Yup, it was a good one. And the behind-the-scenes story about that piece is as good, if not better, than the story itself. Pat’s Dalkowski profile for Inside Sports was also good (better than an earlier one he’d written for SI). And the Dexter stuff is really strong. The Jim Brown piece featured a hilarious photograph of JB on rollerskates on the beach in L.A.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:06:21 +0000

people in LA who are saying Garvey should buy the Dodgers should be forced to read that Jordan story…the man’s own kid called him a “sociopath.”