Scene Managing Editor Joe P. Tone received an honorable mention in Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing 2007 for his story “Man on Fire” [October 6, 2006]. The piece is a profile of Jeff Rotsky, a millionaire who moonlights as a high school football coach.
There are a ton of Best Whatever books in a number of fields. And while being selected for any of them is an honor, Best Sports Writing is consistently the most lively and engaging…
This article appears in Jan 23-30, 2008.
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go captain joe go. that’s awesome buddy.
There’s nothing wrong with being an also-ran. It could be worse: You could be known as an award-winning headline writer.