Not only can I not stand the guy's column, but i have some objections to whole notion of "columnists" as opposed to simple "reporters." Be that as it may, he should be given some props when he writes a good one. I really enjoyed his piece on Meyers Leonard: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2012/06/canzano_the_expert_on_trail_bl.html It's the type of article that Quick used to write a long time ago.
I refuse to give him page hits, so I'm going to take make a SWAG (scientific wild assed guess) that it's a fluff piece talking about his childhood, growing up without a father, living on food-stamps and his soldier-hero brother in Afghanistan? Amiright?
these types of articles write themselves isnt it sad that his dad died? and then his brother went off to be a hero! everyone is so proud of nards, but he is even prouder of them! flowers and bombs, sinners and saints, yadda yadda yeah, fluff, and beyond obvious...and borderline patronizing....typical crapbaldo drivel
Hate Canzano, but I had to get the story of Meyers. Canzano didn't really write that article - Meyers' history and the quotes from Meyers and his brother wrote that article. Kinda refreshing after some of the shit heads we've had come through Portland the last several years. I hope he keeps his head on straight and continues to work hard, not that I doubt his ability to do so.
Yeah. JC does whore himself to these types of stories. If not for these types of stories, he'd have failed on-air and as a writer because people would get tired of him being an incessant twerp. He's done enough of these to pull at readers' hearts and people kinda forgive Canzano for being an assclown.
When it's coming from Canzano, it's always fluff. At least this time he got to write one of his "life is bigger than sports" pieces on a Blazer and not little Jimmy who fell down a well.
He has written similar pieces that I thought were garbage. But, I didn't know anything about MLs background before it, so I enjoyed it.
I'll gladly take a column on Meyers Leonard over his annual quest for awards and a Cancer Kid with one last wish. It's around this time of year that Calzano starts roaming the halls at Doernbecher's, isn't it?
Yeah, his non-sports related stories kill me. I get that we're all human. But he is supposedly a sports columnist, ya know? Can't he share those life stories on to another columnist? Or can't The Boregonian move those stories to another section. Not to be a jerk about it. It's just if I'm going to spend my money on the paper.... I want my sports section to be about sports.
I used to not even have an issue with the quasi-sports articles, but it's become such an obvious formula for Crapzano that it's clear it's all about him and his awards, and not about telling a story.
I actually work with a guy who used to be an editor for the Goryonion's sport desk ... let's just say everything I suspected about Canzano was pretty much confirmed by this guy -- and my co-worker doesn't strike me as an axe-grinder.
Well he figured out that when he writes a "Jimmy fell-down-the-well" story, he wins awards. The thing is, I wouldn't care that he wrote the stories if he wasn't using them as a tool for advancing his career, or as a giant rock to beat over our heads and make us feel bad about taking sports so seriously. Every article has a tone of, "you love the Blazers, but so does little Jimmy and he's dying from cancer so shame on you." If he wants to write human interest stories, that's great, but I really think he should move over to the Living section. A lot of people, myself included, watch sports to get away from the everyday problems in the world. You can't watch the news without hearing about people who were shot, people who lost their jobs, or giant forest fires. Why should I have to see those kinds of stories in the sports section as well?
A guy gets on a plane and is seated next to an attractive woman. She is reading a book and he sees the title is Sexual Statistics. He tells her the book looks interesting and asks what it contains. She says she is reading about male genitals and says Native American men have the longest and Polish-American men have the thickest. The guy says "That is very interesting. By the way, my name is Tonto Kawalski."
Oh he's a piece of work. I spent enough time around him at the practice facility and at games. The guy has an ego, and he thinks he's real shot shit. Definitely a "big fish in a small pond" mentality. It would be interesting if he went to a bigger city and watched his so-called star fall out of the sky. He wouldn't even rate in a place like New York or Los Angeles.
