We were really sorry to hear that the Greensboro News & Record finished gutting their sports room by letting Ed Hardin, Conor O’Neill, Jeff Mills and Patrick Ferlise go.
No offense to anyone else but Hardin is a real loss. He’s a gifted sportswriter - well writer - and really knows how to tell a story. He has an excellent BS detector and can apply it to himself which not everyone can do (trust us on that).
It continues a long term decline of course. We could run off a list of really great North Carolina sportswriters who have been forced to reinvent their careers rather close to retirement.