Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.
ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.