Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly does Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan think he is? Have you heard his comments on soccer recently...
Although soccer is the most popular sport in the world, it seems to lose fan interest in the United States after people graduate from college. More people play little-league soccer than any other sport, but most people over the age of twenty-two (including outspoken Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan) believe soccer is a boring sport. The arrival of the World Cup in the United States next summer may very well change the way we perceive soccer, but just as important to the game is the way the sport interacts with the community...
About ten years ago, a Los Angeles Times columnist, desperate to find some meat for the next day's paper, convinced a friend to get a tattoo at a cheap, back-alley parlor. Returning to his hotel, the columnist tried out his story on the bell captain. The bell captain could not conceal his horror. "You made that poor girl get tatooed?" he asked. "Just for a newspaper story...
...right thing to do," the columnist said. "We had no choice. We are, after all, professionals...
...never saw the local spin on this issue in the national press. While scientists were talking of hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...