Sixty-six years later, I had a rush of mixed feelings when the Times recently announced that it was going to abolish its sports department. I had, in fact, long wondered whether the Times needed a sports department. Such thoughts only intensified when I first saw the announcement that the Times was dropping its sports department. (Meanwhile, The Athletic has been bulking up its staff, even adding a respected former Times sports editor, Jason Stallman.) Maybe answering that question could be the Ph.D. thesis I was headed toward 66 years ago when I answered that ad for copyboy in the late, lamented sports department of the New York Times.

Source: New York Times November 22, 2023 10:21 UTC