Sportswriters Are Annoying

Another thing I hate about the sports media is when they harass the hell out of coaches toward the end of a season, asking the coach of Team A if he's interested in the now-vacant job with Team B.

"No comment," the coaches will say.

"But what about--" the reporters will counter.

Do you really think Miami Dolphins' coach Nick Saban is going to speak openly about the high-profile opening at the University of Alabama right now?

I realize you don't want to get scooped by the reporter at the other paper, so you do have to ask once, but it's the sports media itself -- not those who toil in sports -- that should be accountable for some coaches and players getting painted with the ugly brush.

"Oh, you can't trust that coach. He was so full of shit during that whole Alabama fiasco."

How about this? When you're using your work computer to look for a job at another paper or TV station, and taking a "personal day" to perhaps interview elsewhere, before you hear whether you've gotten offered what you think might be a better job, why don't you start telling all your co-workers and bosses that you're looking around? Better yet, why don't you tell your wife that you got drunk covering the Sugar Bowl last year and paid a Bourbon Street hooker to whack it for you in an alley behind your comped hotel? Until then, stop holding those already overglamorized jackasses in the sports world to a completely different standard than the one you'd expect to be set for yourself.