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From: The O

The Oregonian's John Canzano has been named the nation's top sports columnist by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Staff writer Rachel Bachman also won a fourth-place award in the organization's annual contest.

Canzano won first place for column writing for a portfolio of five columns, including one that ran Christmas Day on Trail Blazers fan Katie Shearer who was battling malignant melanoma.

Bachman won fourth place for project reporting for her series Uneven Playing Fields, which was published in November and explained how economic disparities among schools translate
to on-field results in high school athletics.
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I know most people here don't like him, but the man can write.
 
That is the most retarded thing I've ever heard!
 
Interesting that none of the 5 stories he submitted were about the blazers.

barfo
 
True or not, I don't mind. I think he's been at the very least pretty decent.
 
I guess tying in dying people to remind us how sports are not the most important things in life repeatedly over a decade gets you an award despite how tired the story becomes.
 
It was voted on by sports editors. Meaning he was the only sports columnist they could find that can spell. To me it clearly shows how pathetic the industry has become. And the lack of competition.
 
I'd like to congratulate Mr. Canzano on his richly deserved reward. He clearly has grown beyond our little burg and is destined for bigger things. I know it will be hard on all of us, but it's clear he needs to move on.
 
I've always thought that he writes human interest stories pretty well, and that's probably what all five of the articles he submitted were. His problem is when he takes up a negative opinion I'm not even sure he believes, just to rile people up, or needs exhibit a knowledge about sports and their rules or CBA.
 
gambitnut said:
I've always thought that he writes human interest stories pretty well, and that's probably what all five of the articles he submitted were. His problem is when he takes up a negative opinion I'm not even sure he believes, just to rile people up, or needs exhibit a knowledge about sports and their rules or CBA.
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And that is precisely why he should be writing in the Living section.
 
maxiep said:
I'd like to congratulate Mr. Canzano on his richly deserved reward. He clearly has grown beyond our little burg and is destined for bigger things. I know it will be hard on all of us, but it's clear he needs to move on.
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Indeed, I believe he deserves a job with the Rocky Mountain News.

barfo
 
Natebishop3 said:
I was thinking more along the lines of something in Alaska.
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Alaska is a perfectly nice state, aside from the governor, why would you wish that upon them?

barfo
 
The human interest pieces he writes were perfectly nice - the first time he did it like seven years ago. It was even nice when he did another one like two months after that. He does like four or five a year now where he talks about people who are down on their luck, struggling with money, and how this should remind us that there are more important things in life than sports. Why thank you John - I had never thought of that before you wrote about it in such a heavy-handed manner. Silly me and my distinct lack of basic morals!

(More importantly instead of helping them get tickets from the Blazers to go to games during these hard times perhaps that effort and money could go towards helping them pay bills or something).
 
barfo said:
Indeed, I believe he deserves a job with the Rocky Mountain News.
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:biglaugh:

Now that, was funny.

The New York Globe would have been a good destination a well. It was there that "Ripley's Believe it or Not!" originated.
 
ABM said:
...which, coincidentally reminds me of some guy named Duin.
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Yeah, he's definitely on the Duin career track.

barfo
 
What does he write for a paper somewhere else or something? The shit he writes here is worthless.
 
The Sebastian Express said:
The human interest pieces he writes were perfectly nice - the first time he did it like seven years ago. It was even nice when he did another one like two months after that. He does like four or five a year now where he talks about people who are down on their luck, struggling with money, and how this should remind us that there are more important things in life than sports. Why thank you John - I had never thought of that before you wrote about it in such a heavy-handed manner. Silly me and my distinct lack of basic morals!

(More importantly instead of helping them get tickets from the Blazers to go to games during these hard times perhaps that effort and money could go towards helping them pay bills or something).
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And the stories have almost no connection with the Blazers, other than their affinity for the team. The Brian Grant story years back was one thing, but most of them have zero to do with sports, and I've always felt he was just trying to elicit an emotional reaction.

Mostly it just chaps my ass because I've always considered sports as an escape for myself, and for others. Tough day at work? I'm going to watch the game. For a couple of hours I can focus entirely on the game of basketball, and forget all my troubles. I should be able to turn to the sports section and avoid all the sad and shitty stories about the economy, about violence in society, and about the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, there's this guy named Canzano, who likes to violate my temple of solitude with his tales of morality.

Fuck you John.

I sometimes wonder how many times he's watched Annie or read Oliver Twist.

 
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