OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journalists

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  1. tlongII

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    http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2010/05/john_canzano_named_nations_bes.html

     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Ha! bow down, haters.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Congrats to Canzano. As a daily subscriber to the Oregonian, I feel lucky to be able to read his columns, considering the dreck I've had to read in other markets.

    Keep up the good work, John!
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    4 of 5 of those entries appear to be non-sports-related?
     
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    They are all sports related.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Really? Which ones?
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Yeah, enlighten us.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

    Gossip and soap-opera. Wild speculation larded with pop psychology and puritanical hornswoggle.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    At best, the one about the punch is sports-related. The others are human interest stories, IMO.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    They are all "sports related". I guess you'll have to set up your own organization for the "Analytical X and O Sportswriting Award", or even "Best Game Coverage Award".

    Human interest can still be sports-related, but if I'm correct, you don't live here, right? So, these stories likely have no meaning to you, while they meant a lot to the people who live in Oregon.

    Bottomline, Canzano wins a major award, while frustrated anonymous posters on the internet gnash their teeth and find a silver-lining for themselves.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    I live in Oregon and these stories meant fuck all to me.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Goody for him. And I also say goody for you for enjoying your hand-delivered O, along with your Folgers crystals drink.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Good for you. I feel otherwise. Canzano wins a major award; you post hypothetical polls on the internet that make no sense.

    Who is the real winner today?
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Costco Guatemalan blend, my friend.

    How are those columns not sports-related?
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    They may be. But, then again, so are you and I.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    They can happen to touch on sports. Athletes happen to have personal lives, too. Sometimes good/bad things happen to fans of a team. That doesn't make it sports journalism, IMO.

    I never commented on whether "they have meaning" to people. I'm sure the stories had lots of meaning to people. Human-interest stories here have meaning to people, sometimes even to me. Having meaning is not the same thing as being sports journalism.

    I can't say I care enough to gnash my teeth. I was simply giving my opinion that he apparently won a sports journalism award for his non-sports-related articles. Which, I'm sure, were quite good. I find his sports-related articles to be pretty poor. But his sports-related pieces don't mean enough to me to make me gnash my teeth. Probably because I don't live there. If I lived there, I'm sure Canzano would be a source of great life depression for me. :)
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Well, perhaps they meant a lot to some people who live in Oregon. But I'm with Nik.

    I'm not frustrated, it's not an award I care about. But I can find some silver linings:
    1) Maybe some bigger city newspaper will finally hire Canzano away, since he's the nation's top sports columnist and all.
    2) With circulation dropping like a rock, the Oregonian will be gone in a few years anyway.

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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    Canzano is a good writer. I often disagree with him, but he's still a good writer.
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    You don't care, you seemingly have trouble with the idea of "sports-related column", yet you then go on to say he would be a source of depression if you lived in Oregon.

    Oh, the anonymity of the interwebs. I love that aspect of it, obviously. ;)
     
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    Re: OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journal

    I thought the articles on Katie Shearer really captured what the Blazers mean to this city, even for those who were about to die. I guess it meant "fuck" to me.

    Perhaps I should become more jaded and post lame polls on the internet about a topic that nobody cares about.
     

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