Is the answer to the question. Nor is anyone working on ESPN.

But then what would I watch on my lunch break? Lifetime?

/shudder

We need him.

Most of those guys need to pull a gig on radio or TV so they somewhat get recognized. In reality traditional print media sucks and most of the writers are on the team payroll (what’s that loud, sucking sound I hear?)

Could you imagine how little true info we would get out of the UI athletic department if we didn’t have guys like Dochterman around? Hlas and Morehouse are obviously decent-to-very-good.

While I think Pat Harty shows no redeeming value as an actual writer about sports, what would we do if we couldn’t make fun of him?

However, I’m fine with getting rid of the likes of Sean Keeler whenever possible.

The only way that newspaper sports sections (and maybe newspapers in general) will survive is if they have blogs with interesting extras like the Gazette’s sports section does. Otherwise, younger people will get all their news from online, and everybody older will quit reading and just watch TV. (I don’t know about you, but I am seeing a lot more baby-boomers whining about how bad local newspapers are, and sometimes even canceling their subscriptions).