Brian Bennett bounces
With less than a month to go before the start of the 2008 Louisville football season, The Courier-Journal's U of L beat writer, Brian Bennett, announced Monday that he is leaving the paper to take a position at ESPN.com as the resident Big East football blogger.
Bennett broke the news, appropriately enough, on his blog.
After nine years at The Courier-Journal, I am leaving to work for ESPN.com, where I'll be covering and blogging about Big East football as part of the site's new blog network. It's an exciting opportunity that allows me to stay in Louisville and cover a sport with which I'm already familiar.
I grew up reading the C-J and always wanted to work here and write about our local teams. So these past nine years, particularly the past two as the U of L beat writer, have been rewarding and fun. I've especially enjoyed the dialogue with you, the fans, through this outlet and others.
The easiest way to make friends in a new city is to rip on a local writer, but I thought Bennett did a pretty bang up job over the last two years.
While it is a bit depressing to see yet another talented C-J writer hit the road, I am kind of excited - for us and him - that he'll have a slightly larger (and decidedly funkier) box to work out of. I mean the man was booted out of a game for blogging, can reel off Flight of the Conchords quotes, and has advocated listening to both Jay-Z and Band of Horses; he was really one of us all along.
Welcome to the other side, Brian, where list writing is job requirement numero uno, people send you lengthy hate emails because they didn't read past the first two sentences of your post to realize you were being facetious, and anyone who you think might have taken a harmless shot at you is a douchebag.
Go ahead and take the shackles off and call someone a douchebag. Just do it. I'm gonna do it. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia: you are a douchebag, my friend.
He'll get the message. They always do.
I think it's safe to say that whoever lands Bennett's old gig is going to be walking into a pretty awkward situation.
I cast my vote for Petrino.
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The Decree of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia:
No, good sir, you are the true douchebag. Also, I’m not your friend.
by Tsar Nicholas II on Aug 5, 2008 8:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Tsars can be touchy
and they have internet now
apparently in the afterlife too
by frankpos on Aug 5, 2008 8:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Mike Rutherford is a Bolshevik
Also, I like spelling it “Czar” better. Make it so.
by Tsar Nicholas II on Aug 5, 2008 9:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
mind you, mike is indeed a bolshevik
but that’s besides the point
by frankpos on Aug 5, 2008 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You'd be pushy too...
...If you got shot in the face in a Siberian basement.
by Tsar Nicholas II on Aug 5, 2008 11:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Brian Bennett was like the hottest girl in the room
or the street, depending on the street
by Blocky on Aug 5, 2008 11:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
ain't no party like his nana's tea party
Hey.. Ho..
by bartenpa on Aug 5, 2008 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He was so hot he was making me sexist...
bitch.
by Mike Rutherford on Aug 5, 2008 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll Buy You A Kabaaab
Yeah, he could have been an airline hostess in the sixties, or a high class model, but he’d probably have to keep his day job.
...I love the fan club, Blocky. How exclusive (one fan).
But I’d take her home and feel her up on the couch.
I remain, the most beautiful girl in the room.
In the whole wide room.
Roz
by Roz on Aug 5, 2008 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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