The galling thing about it is that there are excellent points to be made in answer to Howie’s laughably unoriginal drivel – Sean at Down Goes Brown did an excellent job making the contrary case today – but none of it seems to make the MSM. The finger, it seems to me, has to be pointed squarely at the journos’ editors, asleep at the switch, with the runaway train heading off down the wrong set of tracks.

Perhaps then he’s to be pitied — putting out troll bait like that can be no more than a desperate cry for attention, a lone voice crying out that he’s still relevant in this new media world. Over the past year I’ve come to rely more and more on the Internet for my sports news — updated often, as narrowly or broadly focussed as you need, and usually more insightful as well.