Modern Sports Writing

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Corey Clayton on X: "Gotta love when a @Newsweek hack rushes to get a “Caitlin Clark trade to Sparks rumor” piece out for engagement farming, and forgets to delete their AI chat prompts from the piece. #NowYouKnow @IndianaFever #WNBA https://t.co/ilLTWudC6c" / X

 

See entirety.

 

Corey Clayton on X: "Again, want to make clear — this was a @Newsweek article aggregated via data feed to appear at @YahooSports. The error wasn’t an original Yahoo gaffe. It was a NW airball." / X

 

 

 

[Jack Jemsek]

Oof!  Sign of the times … clickbait and chatbot level media - not to be confused with journalism…

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[JB]

On Jun 6, 2026, at 11:37 AM, 'Jack Jemsek' via Celticsstuff <celtic...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Oof!  Sign of the times … clickbait and chatbot level media - not to be confused with journalism…

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"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below. “

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"Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."

 

Yeah, those guys were known, at least in the football sense.

 

They were like Jordan Poole, shooting their shots at all times.

[JB]

On Jun 6, 2026, at 7:28 PM, 'NCC' via Celticsstuff <celtic...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

"Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."

 

Yeah, those guys were known, at least in the football sense.

 

They were like Jordan Poole, shooting their shots at all times.

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Back in the day…. when newspapers were sold in the streets and delivered door to door, there was some competition, but aside from the occasionally dramatic headline, the circulation was pretty static.

Today, with the plethora of on line sites, it’s those “clickbait” headlines that drive readership and directly, the income of the writer/blogger/podcaster.

Just like the players playing for their personal brand recognition, as much as the team’s success, these “journalists” may have a conflict of interest with the forums that host them.

JB

                                                                                        Yes Indeed!

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Somewhere (the Smithonian?  the Field Museum?) I saw Grantland Rice's typewriter.  I think I have a photo, buried in one of the closets here.

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[JB]

On Jun 7, 2026, at 9:29 AM, 'NCC' via Celticsstuff <celtic...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Somewhere (the Smithonian?  the Field Museum?) I saw Grantland Rice's typewriter.  I think I have a photo, buried in one of the closets here.

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In those days, the writers were not allowed to write their own headlines… probably still don’t in the print media.