Mount Rushmore of Current Sportswriters

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

1. Stewart Mandel--Does an excellent job analyzing college football for si.com
2. Joe Posnaski--Also writes for si.com Really thoughtful columns on sports. I don't always agree with him, but I always see where he is coming from.
3. Chuck Klosterman--I know most people don't like him and he doesn't write about sports a ton, but he is now on grantland and wrote an excellent piece on a particular high school basketball game.
4. Jim Margulus--This is somewhat of a homer pick because he is a white sox blogger. The only thing I can say to defend the pick is that the main Bulls blogger is average at best and I don't know of any good Chicago Bears bloggers. As bad as the White Sox are now, I always look forward to his take the day after the game.

[rowech]

1. Stewart Mandel--Does an excellent job analyzing college football for si.com
2. Joe Posnaski--Also writes for si.com Really thoughtful columns on sports. I don't always agree with him, but I always see where he is coming from.
3. Chuck Klosterman--I know most people don't like him and he doesn't write about sports a ton, but he is now on grantland and wrote an excellent piece on a particular high school basketball game.
4. Jim Margulus--This is somewhat of a homer pick because he is a white sox blogger. The only thing I can say to defend the pick is that the main Bulls blogger is average at best and I don't know of any good Chicago Bears bloggers. As bad as the White Sox are now, I always look forward to his take the day after the game.

I think this is alomst impossible to answer anymore because there are so few "sportswriters". Most have become some sort of hybrid between talking head, blog writing, etc.

There are only two guys that I read everything for. Posnanski and Verduci. I'll put Simmons on there as well. No clue on a fourth.

[OldGiants]

I think this is alomst impossible to answer anymore because there are so few "sportswriters". Most have become some sort of hybrid between talking head, blog writing, etc.



Fully agree. There are no Joe Falls, Dick Youngs or Maury Allens around anymore, for example. Without being on ESPN it is hard to get a following. Good prose is not a top ten requirement for a talking head.

[Crapshoot]

Joe Posnaski
Joe Posnaski
Joe Posnaski
Wright Thompson


That's about it.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I don't know that there's a current number worthy of Rushmore ... but Doug Glanville tops my list even with his limited output & scope.

[Rizon]

I don't know that there's a current number worthy of Rushmore ...

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[Dr. Sak]

I really only read Bruce Feldman for college football but now that the mothership has "suspended him" I need to find a new one.

[sterlingice]

Joe Posnanski should be on most lists and tops of a majority. When you get beyond that... I dunno

SI

[ColtCrazy]

Joe Posnanski should be on most lists and tops of a majority. When you get beyond that... I dunno

SI


This. He's the only guy who could write about a sport I couldn't care less about and I'll still read it because it's him.

I would also add Gregg Easterbrook. Those 2....that's it. I'll read others, not no one else are must reads but them. I print out Easterbrook's every week and enjoy it like a short story.

[BYU 14]

I agree with Jon

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