Souhan, worst writer ever

[howeda7]

Souhan is awful, but the worst sportswriter in the world right now is Rick Reilly. He has clearly stopped trying:

http://sports.espn.go.com/blog/rick...id/787/hey-bartender-i’ll-have-a-michael-vick

And keep in mind, he gets paid $2 million a year.

But yeah, everything else that has been said about Souhan here is absolutely true.

Reilly used to be my favorite sports writer. I guess I stopped reading him when he left SI, sounds like I haven't missed much. ESPN's whole magazine is trash. I somehow have a subscription and I'm not even sure how that happened. I think they basically give it away with the $5/mo online access.

 

[Gopherocious]

It's pretty sad, actually. Reilly was nothing short of brilliant during his heyday at SI in the late '80s and early '90s. It's a bit trite to use the adjective "brilliant" to describe a sportswriter, but he really was just that. I'm an ESPN mag subscriber, and when I opened and read the first piece he wrote for them, my initial thought was, "What the hell is this garbage?" Somehow, miraculously, he continues to get even worse than he was with that first piece.

I felt that way just a week or so ago...he claimed that Obama could make up for all of his failed promises and whatnot if he instituted a playoff system in college football. I'm not about to make this thread political but in my mind the President has much more important things to worry about, and a playoff in D-1 football would not make up for the things that he has done wrong, or things that have not turned out as well as he had hoped. I was very unimpressed with the article overall and his writing has been getting worse as the days progress.

 

[Jeshurun]

I felt that way just a week or so ago...he claimed that Obama could make up for all of his failed promises and whatnot if he instituted a playoff system in college football. I'm not about to make this thread political but in my mind the President has much more important things to worry about, and a playoff in D-1 football would not make up for the things that he has done wrong, or things that have not turned out as well as he had hoped. I was very unimpressed with the article overall and his writing has been getting worse as the days progress.

If Souhan would write just one good article, it might make up for his past failures.

 

[Gopherocious]

Exactly