best present uconn writer?

[husky99]

has to be either Kevin Duffy or borges. seems like duffy is working the hardest

 

[Ricky1Moore]

We have been cursed since amore (begrudgingly) took over at the courant. Almost exactly since he took over actually is when the ncaa came up with this retroactive bs.

It is kind of hilarious though to see a journalist so clearly annoyed with his current assignment, and obviously contributing only the exact minimum every day. If I was his boss I would have fired him by Christmas (even if you don't like your job, you are an employee, so should at least pretend).

But yeah Borges and Duffy have definitely seen the (post Anthony) opportunity and picked up their games.

 

[johnhuskies95]

We have been cursed since amore (begrudgingly) took over at the courant. Almost exactly since he took over actually is when the ncaa came up with this retroactive bs.

It is kind of hilarious though to see a journalist so clearly annoyed with his current assignment, and obviously contributing only the exact minimum every day. If I was his boss I would have fired him by Christmas (even if you don't like your job, you are an employee, so should at least pretend).

But yeah Borges and Duffy have definitely seen the (post Anthony) opportunity and picked up their games.

Amore has put out a lot more work than any other beat writer with the exception of Duffy. Ostrout and Daigneault have had almost nothing since the season ended. Granted, Amore has more resources to work with, but he's still putting in a lot of work.

He just was on campus today with a story about off-season workouts. He wrote a great piece on Calhoun, he's really the only guy whose been able to get Calhoun on the record since the season ended. He's one of the most respected writers in the state.

His start was a little bit weird, but it's clear that you haven't paid attention at all in the last few months.

 

[husky99]

Amore has put out a lot more work than any other beat writer with the exception of Duffy. Ostrout and Daigneault have had almost nothing since the season ended. Granted, Amore has more resources to work with, but he's still putting in a lot of work.

He just was on campus today with a story about off-season workouts. He wrote a great piece on Calhoun, he's really the only guy whose been able to get Calhoun on the record since the season ended. He's one of the most respected writers in the state.

His start was a little bit weird, but it's clear that you haven't paid attention at all in the last few months.

johnhuskies95, i respect your point of view, but anytime I have tried to talk to Amore he has been an balloon knot I have 200-250 plus emails back and forth with borges, Mike A, and a few other reports. 99% of the writers are very cool

 

[HooperScooper]

Amore has been much better since the first 2-3 months he took the UConn beat writer assignment at the Courant. It definitely seemed that at first he just didn't want the assignment. But since those first few months he's been pretty good.

I like the job Kevin Duffy is doing. He's a young kid who relatively recently graduated from UConn so he's very excited about what he does and he's still emotionally attached to the school and the basketball program. He's like some of us if we had the access to the program he does.

Borges at the New Haven Register is also pretty good. No real complaints there.

Totally disappointed in Neil Ostrout at the JI. I miss Phil Chardis big time. He was the best. Ostrout does the bare minimum, at best. Considering the JI is the closest newspaper to Storrs you'd think he'd be able to run up to UConn a few times for stories. But he never does.

Gavin Keefe of the Day is pretty good. But now you need to register to read the Day's articles and can only read a maximum amount of articles a month without paying for them or having a subscription. Kind of cuts down on the ability to read all his stuff.

I don't read Daigneault at the Republican-American at all because their articles on-line are subscription only. I'm betting not too many people read his stuff because of that.

 

[huskies20]

ed daigneault has the best twitter. So sarcastic and dry, he's hilarious.

 

[Kyla]

Ed Daigneault is absolutely hilarious. I laugh at almost every single one of his tweets

 

[Ts5034]

Chardis was probably the best until he took the SID job this year. I think Borges gets the nod now just by default.

 

[aceboon]

Duffy is the best imo, devotes a good deal of attention to recruiting besides just the the regular team stuff. I wouldn't expect another horde writer to come with that Stevie Clark story.

 

[Ricky1Moore]

Amore has put out a lot more work than any other beat writer with the exception of Duffy. Ostrout and Daigneault have had almost nothing since the season ended. Granted, Amore has more resources to work with, but he's still putting in a lot of work.

He just was on campus today with a story about off-season workouts. He wrote a great piece on Calhoun, he's really the only guy whose been able to get Calhoun on the record since the season ended. He's one of the most respected writers in the state.

His start was a little bit weird, but it's clear that you haven't paid attention at all in the last few months.

It's hard to say "no offense" before writing this this, but, no offense, you're an idiot.

The "Calhoun at 70" article was his only decent contribution to the beat since he took over, and I'd venture to guess, as I'm sure many intelligent people would, that he procured that interview purely because he is the Courant rep (meaning ANYONE repping the Courant would've had it).

Apart from this, everything he has done since august has been, "oh woe is me this is what I have to write, let's keep it to 200 words so I can still go see what happened in MLB".

I honestly think you must be his son or nephew, because thinking he's done even an adequate job is a joke.

Having the Courant access and exposure means an added responsibility to go beyond... What's he's done is often antiquated, and his negativity in chats and blog posts permeates.

If you want me to define any of the above words please let me know, because you're either his son, his nephew, or an idiot.

 

[Fishy]

It's hard to say "no offense" before writing this this, but, no offense, you're an idiot.

Kinda got a chuckle out of that...Hoop can buy and sell the likes of this dude about 50 times over, but on the internet, he's the idiot. Okie dokie.

I blame Google for the duck*ing train wreck this site has become - it's too freaking easy to find and we just keep skimming the bottom of the internet for new posters.

Anywho, Amore has done a very solid job lately. Good reporter, bad blogger.

Gavin Keefe is always a favorite - hell of a nice guy and a great guy to work with. Dealing with Gavin and Phil were the best aspects of running the magazine for those years. Borges is very good as well.

Pretty much stopped paying attention to the rest of them.

 

[Dann]

i read dogmania.

 

[Mike Honcho]

i read dogmania.

Your sig reminds me of Donny Marshall's sarcastic clapping Tech against Providence.

(Add this to the 'You know you're a obsessive husky fan when....' list)

 

[johnhuskies95]

Wow. Overreact much? I think you take this way too seriously if you're getting worked up
about a beat writer.

He's won a ton of awards, and he's widely respected in his profession. You don't have to be related to him to know that.

Naturally there was going to be a rough start for him, but Amore is a very good writer.

 

[Ricky1Moore]

Wow. Overreact much? I think you take this way too seriously if you're getting worked up
about a beat writer.

He's won a ton of awards, and he's widely respected in his profession. You don't have to be related to him to know that.

Naturally there was going to be a rough start for him, but Amore is a very good writer.

Wow I apologize. Was pretty drunk last night, didn't realize I had been such a jerk.

 

[AF34]

Kevin Duffy no question

 

[Fishy]

Wow I apologize. Was pretty drunk last night, didn't realize I had been such a jerk.

lol.

Good enough for me.