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It was the best of Tribune; it was the worst of Tribune. Such is the legacy of the Sports section.
Great prose is routinely found in its pages. Golf–a boring sport to play, a more boring sport to watch and an exceptionally soporific sport to read about, comes alive in the colorful words of the Tribune’s sportswriters.
The mundane becomes intriguing in the Sports section. Rick Morrissey’s commentary on Jerry Krause, that he is “a brownstone among high-rises” (July 12), is classic.
Now if only the Sports section could provide the most fundamental of services–report sports scores–in a timely manner. Daily, the standings include the ubiquitous asterisk that references a late game.
How late could an East Coast baseball game have been?
