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>Micco was Shribman's choice. He is a lousy sports >editor just like Shribman is a lousy, ivory-tower exec >editor. > >>Say what you will about Ron Musselman, but his Penn >>State football coverage was lousy. Let's face it, the >>P-G sports section ranges from weak to awful. Ed >>Bouchette got whipped on Tomlin's hiring by SI.com. >>Bouchette got stomped on the Steelers' possible sale >>by the Wall Street Journal. Bouchette makes a dozen >>factual errors each week but never corrects any of >>them. He is gutless. All the talking heads in >>broadcast suck up to Bouchette, never bothering to >>examine his countless failings. Bouchette is a bad -- >>yes, that's right -- a bad beat writer. But compared >>to Chuck Finder, Bouchette still looks like a newsman. >>Finder erroneously reported that Rich Rodriguez had >>taken the Alabama job. Finder makes the kind of >>braindead errors one expects from the Trib, not the >>P-G. As for the P-G sports columnists, they reek. Gene >>Collier's stuff is dense. He doesn't write with >>readers in mind. Ron Cook's stuff is at kindergarten >>level. Slothful Shelly Anderson ought to be working in >>Hooterville. The P-G brass sent her to China to cover >>the Summer Olympics, but she did not bother to stick >>with Lauryn Williams, the only Pittsburgh-area athlete >>with a shot at gold. Anderson was not even at the >>stadium when Williams dropped the baton in the 4x100 >>relay heats. P-G city-side reporters had to bail out >>Anderson, who missed a story that was right in front >>of her. Yup, Jerry Micco and David Shribman are >>producing a wretched sports section. Wretched.

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