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Story - Blair works on jumper, 'feeling wonderful'
Aug 6, 2010 12:00 AM
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...100092254.html
Story - Player development tops Spurs’ summer agenda
Aug 31, 2010 11:22 PM
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...101945028.html
These articles were nice to see, oases in the desert so-to-speak, but there have only been smidgens of investigative discovery going on this summer.
Sure there have been 3 or 4 other Spurs' related articles repackaged from other sources and placed into the Sports Section of the Express-News this summer: Roger Mason Jr. signing with the Knicks, the Spurs reaching out to Danny Ferry, and a couple of FIBA stories relating to Spurs players, etc. With newspaper companies dying in cities all over this land and with very few San Antonio based professional teams, you would think the Express-News would keep its loyal Spurs' fanbase updated on a more frequent basis.
In Little Rock, all you see is Razorback articles. In Boston, even with Red Sox and Patriots playing ball, Celtics fans get their regular summertime fix. The San Antonio Express-News can and should do better.
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Valuable resources were shifted to securing legal expertise necessary to protect the newspaper's intellectual property.
The Express News doesn't look kindly upon detractors. Expect angry letters, Solid D.
I see what you did there.
So they haven't stopped sucking at journalism? Good to see I haven't been missing anything by not going over there.
Yeah, they might as well not bother paying him. His articles suck, and a lot of Spurs fans don't bother going there anymore because they're such ing s about reprinting.
What else is new? The Spurs are one of the least media friendly organizations around and the SAEN aren't exactly premier journalists.
Not to mention this is a boring part of the NBA offseason and San Antonio's a Dallas Cowboys city to boot.
nah man this guy is just pathetic at what he does ever since he started writing anything the spurs...his articles arent interesting
Actually, I think he gets paid by the mistake, and he probably can afford a Maserati.Story - Blair works on jumper, 'feeling wonderful'
Aug 6, 2010 12:00 AM
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...100092254.html
Story - Player development tops Spurs’ summer agenda
Aug 31, 2010 11:22 PM
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...101945028.html
These articles were nice to see, oases in the desert so-to-speak, but there have only been smidgens of investigative discovery going on this summer.
Sure there have been 3 or 4 other Spurs' related articles repackaged from other sources and placed into the Sports Section of the Express-News this summer: Roger Mason Jr. signing with the Knicks, the Spurs reaching out to Danny Ferry, and a couple of FIBA stories relating to Spurs players, etc. With newspaper companies dying in cities all over this land and with very few San Antonio based professional teams, you would think the Express-News would keep its loyal Spurs' fanbase updated on a more frequent basis.
In Little Rock, all you see is Razorback articles. In Boston, even with Red Sox and Patriots playing ball, Celtics fans get their regular summertime fix. The San Antonio Express-News can and should do better.
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I am appreciative that the E-N does not stoop to creating news, as some media members have done. I understand that watching the wire, twitter, etc. is an important part of the job. Attending press conferences and community events are too. My rebuke and exhortation is for the E-N to more frequently go beyond what the readers can find on Google News and blogs.
That what we have Ludden for.
That what we have Ludden for.
Good to see you old friend.
I was starting to wonder if you were still alive.
The right click button on her pointing device was broken.Good to see you old friend.
I was starting to wonder if you were still alive.
ahhh...an article for solid d to critique...ahh...must be gettin close....
This is exactly how I feel.... I would be able to put up with minor stat errors and such if they would just dig a little deeper than what can be found on Yahoo (Ludden) who really has no more direct contact with the team.
For Christ sakes, these people cover San Antonio exclusively as a living and cant get a single ing insider scoop on the one professional sports team in town? GMAFB!
Its downright pathetic. I swear McDonald steals most of his "scoops" from posts he see's on Spurstalk and just rewords them in incoherant and annoying articles just to have something to print and extend that paycheck a little bit longer.
IIRC, even in the Ludden area, there were almost no articles at this time of the year.
Some people are hunters and some are gatherers.
I guess the well of information dries up over the summer. I mean the Spurs coverage dies during the summer, pretty much. McDonald was probably thrilled that Blair actually gave him the time of day to talk about his jumper. The other guys probably don't even return phone calls in the summer.
I rarely read anything E-N anymore so I don't know much about the writers other than Buck Harvey. I read Harvey from way back when and it got to the point where I felt like he had a merry go round of 5 templates to write his articles. Then on top of that, he always felt like he had to put a Christmas star on the top of the tree with something that was supposed to bring everything back full circle or have some kind of jerky twist.
Anyways, if I've read 4 articles in the last 2 years, I wouldn't know who they were from so I can't say anything about McDonald other than I believe you guys that he's boring since you're the readers.
However, in defense of MC, Pop owns the media in this town (especially the print). The media - every single outlet - is terrified of Pop and editors will not approve anything beyond vanilla bean flavor when it comes to the Spurs. The only time anything juicy comes out is when it becomes common knowledge that the Spurs can't control. The closest I've seen to any sort of criticism is when Harvey will dance around making an insinuation about the Spurs.
Last guy who actually threw a radish into the caldron was Kevin O'Keefe and he was never seen or heard from again. Oh and Jay Howard. I forgot what he did, but he probably got to thinking he was on higher ground than he was and the Spurs had him removed.
The Spurs prefer people that are boring with little insight so MC probably is in for the long haul.
I can only imagine how much the Spurs hate this place.
Some very good points, fantasyfootball. While I'm sure the Spurs' beat writers have stories from their travels on the road with the Spurs that they are saving for their "book", there is a reason some writers get offers to perform to a larger audience.
O'Keefe and Pop hated each other, but once the Spurs won in '99, you KNEW who was leaving town, and it wasn't the newly minted championship coach. Howard, on the other hand, had an expired contract, and turned down an offer the Spurs made him, thinking that would kick off the negotiations. It did, between the Spurs and Bill Schoening.
Thanks, my memory failed me on Howard. Sounds about right because the guy resented Spurs fans and put himself on a higher pedestal than he deserved. I remember attending the Pop show and watching how insincere he was with the fans. He really could not stand the fan base and it showed.
Don't know if you were in SA, but do you remember the O'Keefe article that got him fired? I still remember that article. Sounded like it was from a fairy tale.
Del Negro was trying to demand a big contract from the Spurs and the Spurs wouldn't do it (good move). O'Keefe wrote that he had dinner with Vinny in Italy and they had talked it over. I can't remember all the parts but I think he said the Spurs and Vinny agreed to $20m/4 years.
Not sure, but I think he had 2 more articles and he was gone.
I always thought O'Keefe was a snide writer that wrote half truth/made up stories but he was interesting.
Yes, I remember it. He became pretty bitter. It was difficult to tell truth from fiction.
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