In the growing debate between the mainstream sports media — mascot: a giant-headed, froth-spewing Buzz Bissinger — and the sports blogosphere — represented by an angry band of bloggers in Deadspin T-shirts, all of whom are highly skilled in the art of the dick joke — it’s always interesting to see on which side of the fence big-time print guys fall. Thankfully, the ever reliable folks at Cleveland sports blog Waiting For Next Year posted a pretty lengthy and comprehensive interview with the PD’s Terry Pluto this week, and beyond sounding quite reasonable on the internet/media debate, he also heaped some pretty high praise on sports blogs: …
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2008.