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A fresh perspective on sportswriting

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- It began with an e-mail about four months ago. A high school student hit me up, saying that he felt my work was slipping, that I was on the verge of falling off, that I "lost my swag," that I wasn't the writer that I used to be, that Jemele Hill was now his favorite columnist. I challenged the kid. E-mailed him back. Disagreed with not everything he said, just 99.9 percent of it. I asked if he worked for Deadspin. He didn't get the joke. So I contacted one of the kid's ...

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