OT - Rosenberg SI article

Submitted by ldoublee on
Somehow SI picked up a Rosenberg article on Lane Kiffin's departure. It is titled "USC looking for trouble by hiring Lane Kiffin as football coach". http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/michael_rosenberg/01/13/u… Since it's not on the freep website, I didn't feel like a Benedict Arnold linking. However, I would much prefer reading an article titled, "Mike Rosenberg looking for an ass beating by writing fabricated stories about the Univ. of Michigan" But, to each his own.
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michelin

January 13th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^

I will not click on or distribute any Rosenberg article, even if it is not on the freep. But I would be interested in your summary of it, since the title suggests it is related to the thread I started, which appears just below yours.

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January 13th, 2010 at 2:54 PM ^

Rosenberg says that Kiffin is a well-known a-hole and recruiting outlaw, and that USC has invited a whole bunch of trouble, possibly of the NCAA variety, by hiring him. Rosenberg wrote this piece in what I call the "Rick Reilly style," in which he spices every couple of paragraphs with one-liner remarks, kind of like the rhythm that a standup comic would employ. Example: "It is the same Kiffin who torches so many relationships, he might as well dip his finger in lighter fluid before he shakes hands. Kiffin's mouth poses such a danger to the people around him that when he goes through airport security, he has to remove his tongue." I find it really annoying. Rosenberg doesn't always write that way; a lot of columnists do. Whatever. It is nearly impossible to twist any of the Rosenberg SI column into any meaning with respect to Rodriguez as far as I can tell.

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Geaux_Blue

January 13th, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^

did he include how awful it was for kiffin to violate ncaa rules and contact recruits notifying them of his departure? because, you know, he made sure to do that about RR...

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January 13th, 2010 at 7:23 PM ^

Not a Freep article. I read it; wasn't sure what to say. One thing that Rosenberg mentioned in the SI.com column; he seems to have developed a kind of early faux-frustration that reporters can't send FOIA requests to USC, insofar as it is a private school. (Though he did not write it, it is impossible not to think of the way that, oh just fer instance, a Detroit Free Press reporter could issue FOIAs to the University of Michigan. And the funny thing there, being that before his August 30 "investigation," Rosenberg never issued a single FOIA to Michigan's Compliance Services office. Naturally! The documentation might have gotten in the way of Rosenberg's chosen story, and might have interfered with the splashy rollout date in the Sunday paper. The Free Press tasked Jim Shafer with issuing a large FOIA, after the August story ran, with the Free Press' secret story thereby having gone public...)

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bcsblue

January 13th, 2010 at 4:29 PM ^

Its a well written article stating his opinion on the situation. I happen to agree with most, if not all of what he has to say. Thats whats so maddening about the whole FreeP jihad piece. Rosenberg is not a crazy loon saying anything to get clicks. He is historically a very sane person, and frankly a pretty darn good writer. Its a shame that he can't see in all this that football is basically filled with bad people, and to be honest I Michigan has one of the better guys leading its program.

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SFBlue

January 13th, 2010 at 4:28 PM ^

Rosenberg wrote a good piece on Dave Bing in the Jan. 18, 2010 SI magazine. I don't support his Crusade, but I support Detroit and Dave Bing (and he is a pretty good writer).

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