Best and Worst Sports writing in print and on the net.

Well discuss those writers you wait with baited breath for a new column or those you think have no idea what they're talking about.

Best:
Bill Simmons
Gene Wojechowski(sp)
Arguably the best two writers ESPN.com has.
Rick Reilly-Sports Illustrated, always insightful
Steve Czaban-http://www.czabe.com/

Worst:
Jay Mariotti Chicago Sun Times-To be fair I don't know if he has improved but I just find him a chore to read. Plus I can't stand him on ESPN's "I can shout louder than you" or whatever it's called.

 

Best:

I agree with Bill Simmons. I love the Sports Guy.
Gregg Easterbrook. I love TMQ.

Worst: Dan Shanoff. He's a joke, who got fired by ESPN, and now has a blog where he thinks its cool to be a homer and swear.

 

Did Shanahoff do the Daily Quickie?

 

that's the guy

 

I love Simmons and Easterbrook. I usually like John Hollinger's columns also. Buster Olney's blog is incredible. Gammons usually writes good things.

I hate hate hate Skip Bayless. I'm so glad he hardly ever writes for ESPN.com. I don't really like KC Joyner's stuff either- I know he's kind of a football Hollinger, but he's not nearly as good.

Jeff Jacob's columns for the Hartford Courant are kind of hit or miss- some are good, some not so much.

 

Rick Reilly's back page columns in Sports Illustrated are always a treat. They are informative, reverent and usually introspective even.

Peter King's NFL week in review is required reading on Monday mornings.

 

Simmons and Easterbrook are two of my favorites as well. easily the two funniest sports columns on the internet.


espn.com's page 2 has a couple crappy ones though. I never remember their names however.

 

BEST:
Bill Simmons
Gregg Easterbrook

WORST:
Wallace Matthews

 

Scoop Jackson is kind of hit or miss also. He occasionaly writes good things.

 

Heh, I remember his departure from the Post. Lupica has lost a lot of his edge, and I find the Post's staff as a whole more compelling than the News', especially Phil Mushnick and Peter Vecsey (Remember when he used to do spots in games on NBA on NBC?)

 

Simmons is pretty good from time to time, one of the better ones out there...

I'm not sure who I'd pick as the best, but heres some of the worst:
Skip Bayless
Scoop Jackson
Jay Mariotti, though I haven't read anything he's written in a while - read a few a while back and it was a total waste of time

 

Has anybody read any of the columns by the new Page 2 race-baiting hack, Jemele Hill?

 

This is for ice hockey writing:

Good - John Buccicross of ESPN is a fun read and looks at hockey from various perspectives.

Bad - Barry Melrose of ESPN is always carrying the bandwagon. Whenever one team is playing really well he starts talking about them as if they're his favorite team and the same applies for players. Barry Melrose has 30 favorite teams, he just talks about the one that's doing the best.

- Phil Coffey on nhl.com is too biased at times. Whenever people send him replies in which they criticize the NHL, he always tells them that "that's your opinion but you're wrong". He is such a kiss-ass towards Gary Bettman. Nothing Gary Bettman does is wrong in his eyes.

 

You should read Larry Brooks' 'Slap Shots' column in the Sunday New York Post (I believe its available online). He tells it like it is.