How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

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No. 290: DON CHERRY, RON MacLEAN & ME: Among other things, my dinner at the Coach's Corner table
Sigh, one last word before my upcoming feature.
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No. 289: CHERRY & MacLEAN etc / My hiatus at an end, withering criticism, mislabelling of my work & various flotsam & jetsam
Say what you will about what I do, but don't call it "long-form"
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June 2025

No. 288: MOGILNY REVISITED / "I was 12, travelled 5,000 miles on the train to Moscow with 100 rubles. When I got to the academy they weren’t…
From the archive on the occasion of his long overdue selection to the Hockey Hall of Fame, Alexander Mogilny in exile,
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No. 287: GARY SMITH / Without warning, the greatest feature writer in the biz walked away at the top of the game.
Did he drop a hint? That and a find inside a collection of the master's works. Maybe even a lead.
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No. 286: CHICO ESCUELA & ME: I made my first appearance on sports-talk radio at a serious disadvantage & the host ambushing me was the least…
I wasn't working in my first language. Or even in my second.
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No. 285: CBC, MORNINGSIDE & THE CRTC: How I narrowly averted scandal & ridicule with my Canadian radio debut
My consolation: As awful as it went, it could have been worse.
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May 2025

No. 284: NINO BENVENUTI, SONNY LISTON & DICK BEDDOES / Precognition, premonition & mere coincidence
The eerie feeling of typing someone's name from almost six decades in your past & finding out that he died that day
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No. 283: WYATT LEE, MICHAEL FARBER, DOUG HAPPYJACK et al / The only piece of meaningful advice that I'd offer young sportswriters is…
It boils down to two words: "Stay interested." Doesn't mean that your work will be a success, but at least it will keep you keeping on.
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No. 282: NOT SO YOUNG LEAFS / For once-again crestfallen fans, memories of that single time Auston, Mitch & Willy over-achieved.
I embedded with the Leafs in the rookie years for Matthews, Marner & Nylander, when the rebuilding team wasn't expected to make the playoffs. Who'd have…
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No. 281: DAVID CARLE / Many would be traumatized and grief-stricken when told they had to give up the game, but the teen I talked to…
NHL teams wanted to talk to the Denver University coach. They should have known there'd be more than pro millions in play.
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Advisory for subscribers of How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)
Apologies for an absence.
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April 2025

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