Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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So, you want to be a sportswriter …

Shelby Strother / The Detroit News

The letter was handwritten, more polite than most, and it began: “Sir, I am interested in becoming a sportswriter and would like any suggestions you might offer to help me …”

What are you, nuts?

Hunter S. Thompson, whose doctorate in gonzo shields the fact he once made a living writing about sports, has said, “Sportswriters are a kind of rude and brainwashed subculture of fascist drunks whose only real function is to publicize and sell whatever the sports editor sends them out to cover.”



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