A dying habit

[RonWashington]

As a kid growing up I couldn’t wait to tear into the local sports section and read some of my favorite columnists or beat reporters write about the local team .

Obviously with the internet habits die out and frankly I don’t get a local paper delivered anymore or even the Sunday edition which was always the best day for the newspaper .

The great columnists of yesterday have been replaced by talking heads on the TV which really is a poor substitute for the written word.

When I moved here in the mid 80’s to North Texas I still had the habit and the local duel was the Dallas Morning News with Randy Galloway and co Blackie Sherrod was getting up there in yrs vs the afternoon paper and Skip Bayless & Jim Dent who was a fine Cowboys beat reporter with the Dallas Times Herald .

Any of you have favorites or favorite papers from yesterday . My exposure to guys like Fisher and Spagnola was the print variety . Pretty damm good writers too .

 

[Vtwin]

As a kid growing up I couldn’t wait to tear into the local sports section and read some of my favorite columnists or beat reporters write about the local team .

Obviously with the internet habits die out and frankly I don’t get a local paper delivered anymore or even the Sunday edition which was always the best day for the newspaper .

The great columnists of yesterday have been replaced by talking heads on the TV which really is a poor substitute for the written word.

When I moved here in the mid 80’s to North Texas I still had the habit and the local duel was the Dallas Morning News with Randy Galloway and co Blackie Sherrod was getting up there in yrs vs the afternoon paper and Skip Bayless & Jim Dent who was a fine Cowboys beat reporter with the Dallas Times Herald .

Any of you have favorites or favorite papers from yesterday . My exposure to guys like Fisher and Spagnola was the print variety . Pretty damm good writers too .

I also couldn't wait to see the box scores and read about whatever they were writing about, but I didn't have access to anything coming out of the Dallas area. I got mostly Giants news. Some Jets. Oddly enough, very very little Patriots back then even though they were the closest team to this area.

I subscribed to the Sporting News just to get the weekly team reports so I could read about the Cowboys. Of course, bought the magazines that would come out prior to the season.

The very first time I ever got on the internet was at work on a computer with no graphics capability. My IT buddy showed me how to get on using DOS commands. The very first place I went was The Sporting News and the second was to search for Dallas newspapers and landed at DMN. I could see only text and had to weed though all the weird gibberish where the images and adds would have been to get to the next paragraph of the article.

I miss the ritual of anticipating the arrival of the paper and sitting down to read them.

 

[RonWashington]

Exactly my feelings . I too subscribed to Sporting News after reading it at my elementary school library . Columnists like Furman Bisher Art Spander always great reads .

And the baseball box scores as a kid couldn’t be beat and the paper broke down batting average leaders HR’s RBI’s ERA for pitchers it was great stuff .

 

[MisterWaffles]

Agree, I used to devour the sports section every day and miss the good columnists especially. Some of them are still writing, but the newspapers themselves have become so hollowed out that it's hardly worth buying a copy anymore. It's said, because the barking, braying commentators on daytime cable channels are not a comparable substitute.

 

[RonWashington]

Locally after I came to the Dallas area Jim Dent was a guy you read for up to date interesting Cowboy news .