Great Moments in Journalism: Stretching Out
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. The polls are closed, and your winner is Entertainment Weekly's Clark Collis, who narrowly edged out the ESPN sportswriter with his piece on how Gwen Stefani isn't on the run from the SS. Clark wins a copy of Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion. Because we kind of feel like Greg Garber got jobbed, we're going to start the week with another entry from the noble profession of sportswriting. As is so often the case, your Moment comes straight from the lede:
The red headband Chicago Bull Ben Wallace donned in defiance of his coach contains elastic, which seems fitting. After all, the line in professional sports between the individual and the team has been stretched.
We hope it doesn't spoil anything to let you know that this is how the piece ends:
"I can't try to put myself above the team or anybody else," Wallace acknowledged last week.
That's no stretch of the truth.
Signs of individuality can risk team unity [Chicago Tribune]