Telling The Story

Full disclosure: A month ago, I had never heard of Tomas Rios. Full disclosure #2: I invited him to appear on my podcast off the strength of one article -- a piece he wrote last month called "A Brief History of Bad Sports Writing". Full disclosure #3: I was very impressed with the result. In the article, Rios takes aim at the "hot take" brand of journalism that has, he says, infested the sports media landscape. He traces it back to its evolutionary roots, bringing the reader on a journey from Grantland Rice to Dick Young to various modern-day writers, whom Rios willfully calls out by name. Rios is my guest on Episode 9 of the Telling The Story podcast. We go deep into the discussion of modern sports journalism, and he holds back just as little in our podcast as he does in the article. But I also delve into another subject with the 29-year-old, whose work has also appeared on the Slate and Deadspin web sites, among others: He talk about life as a freelancer. READ MORE >> → The post PODCAST EPISODE #9: Tomas