As first mentioned by Eric at Off Wing Opinion, the Washington Post ran a column by prominent sports writer John Feinstein. For some reason that is not clear to us at OFB, it was a “Special to washingtonpost.com” and, therefore, not in the print edition.
Does Feinstein not warrant publication on paper? Or because it was about hockey?
Here are two excerpts that stood out to me:
One thing people should understand about overtime playoff hockey: There’s nothing like it in sports. Only in hockey does the game end — BOOM! — in an instant. One rush, one mistake, one slip by the goalie — and it’s over. It doesn’t happen that way in basketball or in football or in baseball. Oh sure, those games can end on a single play, but frequently they don’t. In hockey, they ALWAYS do and you sit on the edge of your seat not knowing when that moment may come.
So here’s my recommendation for the rest of this month: Put Clemens aside until he actually starts pitching and let the NBA guys sort themselves out over the next six weeks. Pull up a chair, watch some hockey … it will be fun. A lot more fun than anything else going on in sports right now. Seriously.
Give the full column a read, then email Sports Editor Emilio Carcia Ruiz and ask why such a wonderful article was not worthy of print?
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Down with the “major media”!!!
“Special to the Washington Post” simply means the author is not an official staff member for the paper but rather a freelance writer who works for the paper. You see it often times in the high school sports coverage.
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