Sports or Gossip

I love Baseball.

I love the St. Louis Cardinals.

I love sports.

Anyone who is reading this that knows me knows this to be true.

I do not love tabloid magazines.

I hate TMZ. Anytime I see or hear about them on TV, I first puke a little in my mouth and then change the channel. It made me sick to see TMZ photographs of Tom Brady on ESPN last week.

I love sports.

I ask that if you want to write for TMZ you do so and I won’t read what you write. If you want to write for ESPN do so and I will read what you write. However, if you want to write for TMZ and you are writing for ESPN I have a problem. Sportswriters are to write about sports not parties around sporting events.

I had the following e-mail conversation with Jemele Hill of ESPN the magazine this week after she wrote this article on ESPN.com

Jemele,
Please do all of us a favor and go write for TMZ.com instead of ESPN.com. You were at the Super Bowl and you are writing about the parties! If you want to be a sports writer please write about sports. Spend your time writing about the Daytona 500 or the start of spring training. The NHL and NBA are both in mid-season form, why not write about them? Or maybe just maybe write about the biggest sporting event in America that you were at. Manning brothers winning back to back Super Bowls, the end of the perfect season, the catch, the hoodie write about anything except girls getting it on in Drew's suite.

Thanks,
Casey

Casey
I think the fact that the party column is, currently, among the top-20 most viewed stories negates your argument. And just so you're aware, I wrote two sports columns at the Super Bowl. Like it or not, the SB parties are as big as the game itself.

Jemele

I don't think it negates my argument. I did not say people were not reading it. I said people should read it on TMZ.com not ESPN.com. If you think the SB parties are as big as the game itself that only proves my point.

Thanks again,
Casey

Even though we have a differing view of what should and shouldn't be on ESPN.com, I respect her for reading my e-mail and writing back.

I'll keep you posted!