Wooden's Player - Andy Hill - Shreds LA Times For Ignorant Smearing Of Coach

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Taking FOX71’s advise, I did cancel the fishwrap.

I have never had a subscription!

I agree with Nestor’s sentiment, more Wooden players showing their support.

Beside dumping the fishwrap, this is how we can counter their biased agenda and false publications and get the real truth out. Every bit helps. Andy Hill is a Bruin hero.

But do they still post letters to the editor in the Saturday sports section? You think they will have the guts to post Andy’s?

is awesome! Let’s hope more former players step up and hammer the times. Andy let me personally thank you for stepping up for a man i will always love and respect.

These letters hold more weight when they come for a player of Wooden’s. When we try to write, we get “oh you Bruins are so sensitive”. I wonder what Douche’s response was to Hill?

Andy gets to the root of the problem — there is no “reporting” going on at the LA Slimes.

“Do you call relying on 29-year-old articles reporting? Why didn’t you reach out and do some original research?”

They don’t seem to understand that research, verification, and attribution are essential components of getting the story right. They rarely give us attributed primary data. The story about coach was an egregious violation of the standards of responsible journalism. But, at the slimes, that’s the way they do things.

The comments about Coach were reckless. But, it was no different than most of the articles about UCLA run on the slimes sports pages.

The slimes has skated on this, and other stories, because suing them for libel require one to wrestle the pig in the manure yard. The pig could be beat but the stench of contact might never be removed.

However, there is a part of me that wishes someone with standing would go after the slimes on this issue — and I do not think the “clarification” was a sufficient retraction. Because Coach was a public figure, one would have to prove that the slimes was either reckless or malicious in slandering him. I don’t think that a difficult burden to carry. To prevail, the slimes would have to prove that (1) the story was true or (2) that it was not malicious or reckless. To prove the latter, it would have to show that it did research and had proper sources to substantiate the story.

I really think the slimes would have a tough time doing either. Especially when one if its sources has come out and said he never said what the “reporter” attributed to him.

Journalism has been disgraced by the behavior of the sports staff.

In the end, we will have the last laugh. Unless the Trogans decide to subsidize the slimes because it serves as an official house organ, the slimes will disappear within a couple of years.

Of course, most of us won’t know it is gone because we stopped our subscriptions years ago.

Peggysue also is spot on. Look at Coach’s boys, Andy, Kareem, Bill — look how they’ve lived, what they’ve accomplished and what they’ve contributed to the world. They are the true story.

Bruin or not, I really don’t know why anyone would subscribe to the slimes. If they can be so wrong on the sports page, think of how they must be massacring the other “news” in the paper.