The White Party story is something else...a big 20 year old kid being dragged around by that lunatic is quite an image.
As an aside, I'm rooting for Jeter's magazine and other similar efforts (the name of the site for which Snee wrote a couple articles slips my mind) to do well. Getting info from the horse's mouth is a nice way to cut through some of the bullshit.
I don't know how much value there will be, but it's telling that the only group of people who think it's a bad thing are the people who eat 90% of their meals for free in arena press rooms.
Sports reporters have the most to lose here, because their industry is a relic from a bygone era that isn't coming back. Athletes don't need reporters to tell their stories to the masses, and they certainly don't need them to spin their words into something that will sell newspapers to the old people who still buy newspapers.
There's very little actual "reporting" being done at this point, and while some skeptics point out the PR cleansing that undoubtedly goes on before Jeter's site publishes a column, if SI published that exact story as "by Blake Griffin, as told to _______" it would have been lauded as great journalism.
Those are basically all i know him from. I know he had a long and possibly storied film career long before this, but i know him as the guy from these two movies, who also looks like my grandfather
and figured it had to be Grumpy Old Men and/or Dennis the Menace. I was just a little taken aback by that reference. Either way, this is a good article and Jeter's website has been pretty interesting for the most part. I wonder how many contributors he ends up having on that site.
Is one of the funniest superstars and best pitchmen in sports. He could host snl and pull it off as well or better than peyton manning. I love his kia ads, even if they get played out after the 5 millionth run. Love the stuff he does with kimmell too. And the guy keeps refining his game and has become arguably the 3rd best player in the league. Im a big fan
I wouldn't put it past Jeter to reel in a guy like a Ray Rice or a Tony Stewart to talk about some of their recent issues. Maybe ARod. So far so good though, despite the PR-sanitized nature of it.
As an aside, I'm rooting for Jeter's magazine and other similar efforts (the name of the site for which Snee wrote a couple articles slips my mind) to do well. Getting info from the horse's mouth is a nice way to cut through some of the bullshit.
That being said... Walter Matthau? That reference was out of left field. I wonder if Blake really wrote that.
Sports reporters have the most to lose here, because their industry is a relic from a bygone era that isn't coming back. Athletes don't need reporters to tell their stories to the masses, and they certainly don't need them to spin their words into something that will sell newspapers to the old people who still buy newspapers.
There's very little actual "reporting" being done at this point, and while some skeptics point out the PR cleansing that undoubtedly goes on before Jeter's site publishes a column, if SI published that exact story as "by Blake Griffin, as told to _______" it would have been lauded as great journalism.