(Mostly) hot topics
John JeansonneMusings (often related to a half-century working as a sportswriter) on journalism, geezerhood and current events. Beware the occasional curmudgeonly inclination.
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But who won?
Separated by an ocean, a five-hour time difference and a scarcity of English sporting lore, I nevertheless committed to watching Sunday’s consequential Arsenal-West Ham soccer—sorry, “football”—match. Recorded it for viewing later in the da...
No need to colorize
(My former employers at Newsday chose not to use this obituary, prepared when I still worked there fulltime. But it already was written and just sitting in my file cabinet, so…..)
Ted Turner, the firebrand media mogul who founded CNN, colo...
No Aesop's fable
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”—Old cliché
OK, then; how exactly to characterize what Kenya’s Sebastian Sawe did in London last week? Sawe (it’s pronounced SAH-way) is a 31-year-old professional distance runner who officially navigated a...
Beautiful music
Want a sports quote for the ages? Consider this from 1987, by Marcel Souza, regarding his and—especially—teammate Oscar Schmidt’s starring roles when Brazil knocked the heavily favored U.S. national basketball team off its hoops high horse...
Farewell to a friend
My friend Ron died a couple of weeks ago. College roommate my senior year, a pal long before and long, long after. I was a sports journalist. He was a real journalist, a 30-year veteran of Voice of America, reporting on people and issues th...
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