Seth M. Fisher

I think this article missed a major component, i.e. the personification of sportswriting. When I graduated college in 2002 with 4 years of Michigan Daily contribution (our version of a journalism degree) it was into a world where you earn your column inches by working beats from the smallest on up. You’d graduate from your student newspaper to some…

Writers have always had biases. I can’t pinpoint when or how because it happened long before I even knew the alphabet, but I think at some point mainstream journalism stopped treating their biases as something they strove to overcome and instead acted like their position made them immune. I wasn’t alive for that, but I was alive for the backlash…

Hey Ian. As one of those sportswriters, all we’re asking is to follow us if you value our opinions, and don’t if you don’t. Speaking only for myself and my closest colleagues, there’s no difference in our intellectual approaches to sports or politics. We have biases (especially when it comes to our favorite sports teams), and make those biases plain…