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Stupidity trap
Atlanta’s ‘Mayhem in the A.M.’ were smart sports-talkers—until Monday
By Robert Weintraub Jun 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
I live in Atlanta and have two small children, so I am up early and often in the car, schlepping... More
ESPN’s interchangeable women
To the Bristol brass, it’s the network, not the talent, that makes the star
By Robert Weintraub May 6, 2013 at 03:51 PM
In recent months, ESPN has taken a distinctly Bill Belichick-ian approach to its on-air talent, in particular its female announcers.... More
Room for two
New Yorker, Grantland go head to head on Iditarod coverage
By Robert Weintraub Apr 30, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Certainly a thousand-mile race across the vast empty expanse of the Alaskan wilderness has room for two massive, longform articles... More
TNT’s silly experiment
NBA game with no play-by-play guy? Um, maybe not.
By Robert Weintraub Apr 16, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Late last week, TNT tried an experiment on its weekly national NBA telecast. During the second game of its doubleheader,... More
No sweat on ESPN’s brow
Fox Sports 1 won’t be able to paint itself as the ‘fair and balanced’ alternative
By Robert Weintraub Mar 6, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Terry Bradshaw. Erin Andrews. Tim McCarver. Even Regis Philbin. All the stars in the Fox Sports galaxy gathered Tuesday afternoon... More
Towering babble
CBS Sports fumbles Super-Bowl power failure
By Robert Weintraub Feb 4, 2013 at 03:05 PM
The true test of a team or an athlete is how they perform in a crisis, when the game goes... More
X-treme denial
Why aren’t the player-safety concerns that dog the NFL an issue in ESPN’s X Games?
By Robert Weintraub Jan 31, 2013 at 10:10 AM
It's Super Bowl week, but the majority of talk from the pigskin chattering class revolved around football's existential nature, thanks... More
Disappointing Deadspin
It broke the Manti Te’o story, but then stopped reporting and resumed trashing
By Scott Berinato Jan 23, 2013 at 03:00 PM
When Deadspin broke the story last week that Notre Dame star Manti Te'o's inspirational narrative of a girlfriend who died... More
Being good isn’t enough
The sports media needed Manti Te’o to have a compelling back story
By Robert Weintraub Jan 17, 2013 at 04:53 PM
Just how much confirmation does a reporter require before going with a story? Can any source be trusted? If something... More
Tough guys
The press is complicit in the NFL’s ‘warrior mentality’
By Robert Weintraub Jan 11, 2013 at 01:22 PM
Last Sunday the Washington Redskins lost more than a playoff game. Their star rookie quarterback, Robert Griffin III, a.k.a. “RG3,”... More
Must-reads of 2012: sports
Lebron, Paterno, and fabricating race times
By Robert Weintraub Dec 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Patrick Hruby did an... More
The most hated blogger in America
The secret to Chris Chase — and possibly USA Today’s — success
By Sara Morrison Dec 13, 2012 at 05:00 PM
USA Today senior sports blog editor Chris Chase's posts, covering the lighter side of sports culture, are typical fare; aggregated... More
Giving the Jovan Belcher story its due
On the NFL pre-game shows, Bob Costas distinguished himself by using the KC tragedy to talk about gun control; James Brown did not
By Robert Weintraub Dec 6, 2012 at 07:51 AM
I long ago vowed not to watch the NFL pregame shows that are foisted on football fans for hours on... More
ESPN’s unreality-based coverage
Karl Rove’s got nothing on the boys from Bristol
By Robert Weintraub Nov 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM
One of the main takeaways from last week’s election was that conservatives were living in a bubble of delusion, convinced... More
Cancer made Lance Armstrong hard to hate
It also made it easy for sports writers to ignore those pesky doping allegations
By Robert Weintraub Oct 26, 2012 at 11:45 AM
The final ace was pulled from Lance Armstrong’s house of cards Monday when the International Cycling Union (UCI) stripped Armstrong... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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