Best UW Football Beat Writer in the Modern Era?
Best UW Football Beat Writer in the Modern Era? 41 votes
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Write-In
I don't like any of them. Maybe it's not their fault because the surface level coverage of UW football that the Seattle Times cougs are willing to give inhibits them, but none of the articles are interesting in the slightest.
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Bob Condotta
Journalism is dead. It's been dead for a long time. Especially in sports. You now kind of just have to huddle with your own fans like here basically.
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Write-In
And that's fine. They don't need to be Jason Scheer level cheerleaders masquerading around as objective journalists, but they need to have somewhat of an opinion and be able to empathize with the fans a bit.
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Bob Condotta
I hate the Scheer's and our own losers like that like Softy and the Doogman shit and despise the Oregon ones. There's no need for it. There's plenty of fans. Same with the supposed national guys who just hype shit up now.
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Bob Condotta
Seems like you left off some folks from the “Who’s Who of Seattle Sports Media.”
That said, MelloDawg was a product of Bob Condotta’s blog. He is my obvious choices
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I can’t read.
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Dan Raley
The next good one will be the best.
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Mike Vorel
what you are describing is not a beat writer
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Write-In
I know.
There hasn't been a reason to have a beat writer in a long time.
Jude understood that and just started recording videos on his phone and calling it a day.
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Mike Vorel
It’s Vorel, 34-17
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Mike Vorel
Vorel, and it’s not a recency bias.
Before Vorel, it was Condotta hands-down.
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Ted Miller?
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Dan Raley
Without Dan Raley, there is no Dan Raley Fucking Stupid and without that, my special connection to the Jewish doesn’t exist.
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Dan Raley
Did Vorel quit?
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Emmitt Watson, hasn’t been a good one since
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Mike Vorel
In spite of all the @RaceBannon as Moses jokes, he was actually old enough to read Royal Brougham as a young man.
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Mike Vorel
Was he an actual beat writer at one point?
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Mike Vorel
I read somewhere that they knew Royal Broughm was getting too old for the job when began writing stuff like "hey diddle diddle, Robin Earl up the middle." And I rememeber reading that when he went to cover the '78 Rose Bowl, he accidentally boarded the Michigan team bus at one point.
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He was in the early 50's, was more of a baseball guy but during football season he wrote about the dawgs as the beat writer while Royal Brougham was the larger personality [imagine that] and sports editor. [By the 50's Brougham was a national statesman in the sports columnist world and unapologetic sports honk for Seattle sports, and had previously been the editor for the entire PI operation as a younger guy so had a broader scope than just sports within the news community.] By the late 50's Emmitt had shifted gears away from sports and into the pithy acerbic style gentle sarcasm and wit that he was famous for as he commented on the issues of the day and told the stories which celebrated Seattle History. Together, they were quite the pair.
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Emmitt was the sports beat writer and sports columnist in the early 50's, was really more of a baseball guy [good enough for a cup of coffee with the Rainiers as a younger guy] but did report on the dawgs during football season while Royal Brougham was the sports editor and columnist as well… By the 50's Royal was a national statesman within the national sports columnist community, was a leading civic fundraising philanthropist and unapologetic Seattle sports honk with a special interest in UW sports. By the late 50's Emmitt had moved way from sports in favor of his focus on the sly acerbic style nostalgic story telling column ~ writing about issues of the day and the history of Seattle that he was famous for. Together, they were quite the pair.
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Mike Vorel
Hickory dickery dock - Bo Schembechler can suck a fat cock!!
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Mike Vorel
I didn't know all that. Interesting.
