Oregonian Columnist John Canzano has spent his entire time in
Canzano often speaks about the impact that professional and collegiate sports have on the youth of our nation, but shows a prepotency for hypocrisy.
He has a right to be concerned about the impact of headlines on the decisions our children make in their lives. After all he has a young daughter who is the unquestioned love of his life, an admirable trait by any ones standard. But he fails to see that the headlines he writes are just as damaging.
I would love to ask him if he intended on raising his daughter to be as self righteous and narrow minded as he is?
One day his daughter will have to ask him for forgiveness, all children do, and will she be able to look into her fathers eyes and trust that he will be able to look at the person she is rather than the act she had done?
On ESPN John Canzano was finally called out for being what many people have assumed for a very long time when he spoke out against giving a second chance to disgraced RB LeGarrette Blount.
He was called a racist.
I’m not so inclined to say that he is a racist as I don’t think it is a race thing. His bouts with Coach Jerry Tarkanian were white on white crimes.
But he is an elitist, which is just as bad and winning the AP’s sports writer of the year award only made him worst.
I spoke with a representative from the
Kelly has bent over backwards to accommodate Canzano’s schedule and even granted him exclusive rights that other writers do not receive.
I feel bad for Canzano in some senses. I would hate to cover a team let alone state that I have no appreciation for. That would possibly make me as cynical as he is.
After the
First off if Canzano truly is an advocate for sportsmanship why would he, a responsible journalist, dig to find someone who is willing to be very unsportsmanlike? Ever head the saying about throwing rocks in a glass house?
Canzano, also in the after glow of victory, was able to research that the last time that
Canzano has burned so many bridges at the
Everyone who shows remorse and reform deserves a second chance, even Canzano, he just better make my drive home less about his over hyped morality and more about sports!
-Kurt Valentine
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