[NU Sports] Moron-etty quits the Sun Times

[Eric West]

cherron604 at aol.com wrote:
> This discussion has raised a question - has there been a columnist, currently or somewhat recently (Grantland Rice doesn't count) - who has made any of us more likely to pick up the paper that day ?? A writer with insight and analysis that you looked forward to every few days ?
>   
Quite a few, though it can be fleeting. I often enjoy reading the 
columnists that are assigned to write about something in particular: for 
example, the college football column or the media column. The columnists 
have opinions, but the focus is on the story. It's when they get 
"promoted" to the personality column on the front page -- i.e., write 
about whatever comes to mind, "in the wake of the news," etc. -- that 
things tend to go downhill. That's when it becomes more about them (and 
their "comedy" stylings or Around-the-Horn-esque bluster) and less about 
sports. It has come to the point that whenever a columnist's face starts 
appearing next to their column in the paper, I can usually expect to 
lose respect for them soon. If they get a blog, well, don't even get me 
started.

To single out just one name, I'll pick NU alum Teddy Greenstein. I like 
reading his college football stuff in the Trib, and I wish him further 
success, but I also remember the awful "personality" sports columns he 
used to write for the Daily. I just hope that as his visibility 
increases, the quality and accuracy don't go out the window like they 
have done for so many others.

I wish it were otherwise, but...that's how I see it.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu