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ESU Preview: Playing with football's newest toy

Well done sir

September 6, 2008 at 1:28 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

From Couch to Mound

Boy Wonder shines again.
To say that CJ has begun to demonstrate mastery of the language is to say that a young Pollack had an idea of how to splatter paint of the canvas. CJ, sadly, is a genious who is doomed to not be understood in his time. He is a man whom generations in the fore will create grand stories to justify his brilliance. But that is the beauty of this man. He is a simple prodigy, willing to earn the public's respect word-to-word, sentence-to-sentence. His plain prose harkens back to a time when Journalism was a place of respite-- the irony being that Moore is roughly 50 years ahead of his time.
To become the subject of a Moore piece--to be put under the microscope of his diserning eyes and dissected by his expert hands and understood by his all-knowing mind-- must be a place or extraordinary fear. But those that know CJ swear his writing ability is surpassed only by his compassion-- they swear that his razor sharp prose is intended to only sculpt his subjects for public consumption and not brutually go for the metaphoric jugular and lay bear their very existence.
In this day and age when consumers thirst for Originality, Moore has become an oasis in the desert for the people of Emporia, quenching our dieing palates with rain-drops from heaven, feeding the starving with mana of knowledge.

August 1, 2008 at 1:14 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Moore Sports

Brilliant article. I think this new guy sees something in humanity that goes missing from his fellow sports writers. He has a gimlet eye, wide curiosity, and a devastating use of prose narrative.
I also saw him on the Sports Buzz. If ESPN doesn't hire this guy within a few years, I will be shocked. He will entertain the masses with his cunning wit while laying bare the underbelly of sports that the average fan cannot see -- the banality as well as the beauty.
C.J. has the ability to make us see what we've become as a people. As a society. As a culture.
To say nothing of his devilish good looks.
And the name of his column? Moore Sports? Never have I been more subtlety enraptured by the the word play using a writer's last name with the subject he is writing about. The simple brilliance is utterly breathtaking. Moore Sports will become a staple of American Popular Culture before all is said and done. Believe me.
In summation, I think a Charlie Weis-like extension is warranted, here. We need to lock this guy up for the next 10 years before the vultures employed by the major media conglomerates snatch up this beacon of hope for sports journalism.
CJ is a bright, shining star that cannot be extinguished by the PC-demands of Big Media. Emporia needs him. Sports needs him. A crumbling industry needs him.
We need Him.

July 26, 2008 at 1:55 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

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