Before I worked in TV, I was a newspaper reporter and then graduate student at Columbia Journalism School. And unlike my archived “blog,” which I have preserved for the sake of “journalism” and/or/but might meter out in dribs & drabs, these links are still live…and still pretty good, I think.
Risky Business, Columbia Sports Journalism (2011)
http://columbiasportsjournalism.com/2011/06/13/risky-business/
The Death of Yet Another Racehorse, Columbia Sports Journalism (2011)
http://columbiasportsjournalism.com/2011/06/07/the-death-of-yet-another-racehorse/