Brian Miller

Anonymous commenters free to say as they please

In Homework on April 26, 2010 at 11:59 pm

Poor Don Imus.

Imagine if the controversial award-winning radio talk show host’s infamous 2004 comment about the Rutgers’ womens’ basketball team appeared like this:
Talkshowguy533— ‘That’s some nappy-headed hos!’

Listed at the end of a Web article in complete anonymity, the risqué shock jock would still be spewing discourse on Imus in the Morning. On CBS radio at least.

Imus, however, made his racially insensitive remark in an improper (or proper?) forum and paid for it. As an anonymous commenter, he not only would have voiced his right to free speech, but probably would have found others that agree equally with what he said.

Tiger Woods’ relationship with Dr. Anthony Galea being overlooked

In Sports on April 11, 2010 at 2:05 am

With the deft touch of a crooked politician, Tiger Woods has managed to circumnavigate the biggest threat to his golfing legacy: his drug use.
I’m not going to get into the psychobabble regarding sex therapy or infidelity. Everyone from Phil Mickelson to Dr. Phil has weighed in on that. This is about his relationship with another doctor, Dr. Anthony Galea.

The Sports Writer’s Manifesto

In Sports on April 2, 2010 at 3:16 pm

There are a few expected outcomes when you shake a man’s hand. Feeling like you’ve just dipped your hand in warm yogurt should not be one of them.
Yet that’s the very predicament I found myself in on September 26, 2009. That’s right; I remember that moment like the night I lost my virginity. The physically intimate feeling still lingers the same also.
Some call it a “dead fish” handshake, but I look on that moment as the day I lost a lot of respect for most sports writers. Or rather, gainfully employed ones like the limp-limbed Chicago Sun-Times prep writer who made my acquaintance that cold and cloudy Saturday morning.

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