Canzano found another cancer kid for his award-bait article...

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2011/01/canzano_a_smiling_teen_battles.html

I really want to dick-punch this guy for exploiting kids with diseases like this just to use the articles when he submits to the "Top Sportswriters" awards committee. He did this with that girl who died a year ago, and he's now found a new kid to exploit for his own personal gain.

Fuck you Canzano. Fuck you with a bag of hammers.

 

Canzano writing an article about some kid in need is like team management putting their millionaire players into a soup kitchen with cameras rolling. It's for show.

 

He's going to win that fucking award again... I just know it. I hope he trips picking it up, gashes his thigh open, and bleeds out on the dais. Then Kenny Vance can write a eulogy and win the award next year.

 

The phrase "cancer kid" probably wasn't your best choice.

EDIT: Corrected my unofficial quote.

 

Agreed... if I had it to do over I'd say "kid with cancer".

 

Instead of a thread about us meeting to make a podcast or whatever it is, the thread should be about us meeting to demonstrate in front of the organization that keeps giving Canzano the awards. Now that, I'd show up for. I don't think the reporters' organization knows how hated Canzano is.

 

LameR, you merged the two. I said "some kid" and he titled the thread "another cancer kid."

 

I agree. The guy is the definition of the word "chode".

Remember that episode of the Simpsons when Bart is a news caster? That reminds me of this.

[video=youtube;GkMvKeX7erI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMvKeX7erI&feature=related[/video]

 

Rep'd

 

Wow. That article smacks of terrible insincerity.

 

Yeah, God forbid that a kid with cancer (or "cancer kid" ... are you fucking kidding me???) and a foundation to raise money for him gets some publicity in the local paper.

What an irrational and dooshy thread.

 

Really? Canzano is sooooo deep inside of people's heads on this board.

 

I figured it was time for you (I know, of all people) to chime in and become the moral compass.

You're past has proven you're quite the model of decency.

 

I don't buy it when he says stuff like "his smile shook the building." It feels false.

 

Agreed... if I had it to do over I'd say "kid with cancer".

 

Sorry, but I disagree. I think it's worse that Canzano is using these people to benefit his career.

 

I long ago nicknamed him "Cancer Canzano" because of the alliteration, and in retaliation for his writing that Sheed/Bonzi etc. was the cancer of the team. Canzano is the cancer of the team.

 

Isn't the kid's family using Canzano to raise money for their foundation, and awareness for the disease they deal with on a daily basis?

 

I agree the OP is overreacting. I think Canzano is simply doing his duty to give back to the community and taking responsbility of his platform. Furthermore, I doubt Canzano really needs help "furthering his career," he's already got all the work he wants and is twice dubbed "sports columnist of the year." Not to say that I agree with his drama induced columns.

 

Sure, and there's a place for it, but it's not the sports section. Sorry, I feel like we've probably debated over this before, but my contention is that the sports section is an escape for some people. We go to the sports section because we don't want to read about a suicide bomber killing 30 people or the economy being in the shitter. My dad has been fighting lung cancer for the past year... do you think I want to read about cancer in the sports section? I've already read plenty on cancer over the past 12 months.

If John wants to write about stories like this, and raise awareness, that's great! Do it somewhere else. I think his only objective is to make us feel bad about being so involved with a sports team. His articles always have this smug feel, "yeah the Blazers won, but this kid has cancer." What's he trying to accomplish? Let us know that there are more important things in life than a basketball game? No shit. How about unpaid bills or getting fired or any of the other real life problems that I'm sure any number of us deal with on a daily basis? We don't need John Canzano to remind us that life sucks, but hey, here's another award John! Might as well call the guy Captain Obvious.