Here’s the thing: I was new at this job once. And allow me to say: It was not pretty. Being a sports columnist was the only thing I ever wanted to do, the only dream I ever pursued, the only job I ever wanted, and then, one day, amazingly, I was one.
I would reprint a few of those early leads for you, but I fear the offer extended to me here almost 16 years ago might be rescinded. It wasn’t that they weren’t good, it was that they were enough to make you want to renounce English in favor of a language less grisly on the ears.