The other day, the ever-present JE Skeets made a post about the worst SLAM covers of all time, and it seems the editors of SLAM were not all that happy about it, going so far as to compose a 7-point email scolding them in passive-aggressive fashion. If we hadn’t already done a YAYsports! Matchup! this week, this would be the perfect time to do the first-ever 3-way Matchup! between Skeets, SLAM, and film director Tim Burton. Instead, we’ll just talk about Larry Brown’s return to Detroit tonight with the Knicks.
“What I really regret, after we lost and the way we lost, was not having the chance to come back and help us get back,” Brown said in a teleconference Thursday morning. “It was such a special group of players that I had there, and I really hoped I could come back and give us another chance.”
Wow. That’s really kind of boring, actually. The only interesting part of this rehashed he-said/she-said will be the anticipation of whether the man gets booed or not, and whether SLAM EIC Ryan Jones regrets sending that email. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our 12 years of blogging, it’s “don’t send people emails like that one Ryan Jones sent.” The first thing a blogger will do is post it on the internet and make light of the fact they got somebody a little bent.
By the way, what happened to Tony Gervino and why can’t we find any pics of Ryan online? That really crippled what this post could’ve been, y’know.
[ed. note: We didn't actually write this post. We found it on the server and can't get it off. We love SLAM.]
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Thanks for remembering Tony Gervino.
Great guy. He left SLAM to be editor of HOOP and Inside Stuff in something like 1998 or 1999. That’s when I started writing for those magazines, and he and managing editor Anna Gebbie were great people to work for. Then I don’t know, maybe a couple of years ago he was lured back to Harris Publishing, home of SLAM, where he is involved in starting up new titles, like Scratch. You’ll see his name here.
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