Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

A message from New York

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

I wanted to pass along a note that was not necessarily intended to be passed along. It came from New York Times reporter John Branch. It’s an email he sent after I forwarded him the previous blog post about the Fresno Bee sports department moving to the other end of the building and our former desk being abandoned.

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Beans don’t burn on the grill

Friday, June 5th, 2009

This will be a sad post for a few people. The desk is retired. It might end up being a Favrian retirement, but for now it looks permanent.

When I got to work Thursday, this is what my desk looked like …

office-desk-2

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Blog vs. blog, a blogger’s struggle

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I’m still not exactly sure how this works. The other day, for instance, I wanted to post a blog, a Q & A with Paul Loeffler, the radio voice of the Fresno State Bulldogs, a man who wrote a book about the 2008 College World Series called “Underdogs to Wonderdogs.” It’s an outstanding story of underdog-ed-ness, I guess you’d say, and at some point I will do a book review here, along with the other two books about the Fresno State championship.

The problem is, you can’t read the Q & A here, because I didn’t post it here, mostly because I posted it here … http://fresnobeehive.com/sportsbuzz/matt_james/

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