[PaintTouches]Power Rankings: Marquette Sports Journalists

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Power Rankings: Marquette Sports Journalists

While stuck on a train in some severe weather last week, I saw that Jen Lada, a Marquette alum, was moving from CSN Chicago to ESPN. Not Marquette basketball news, per se, but interesting nonetheless. That got me thinking, though, at just what a powerhouse Marquette was in the sports journalism field, relative to its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=painttouches.com&blog=28348875&post=13456&subd=painttouches&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

Source: Power Rankings: Marquette Sports Journalists

[dgies9156]

Somebody must be doing something right over at Johnston Hall to see that many prominent people being graduated from Marquette.

Also nice to see several of my contemporaries on the list.

Now, here's to the hundreds of low-paid, hard-working Marquette-educated sportswriters, editors, producers and broadcasters who toil in national anonymity.

[4everwarriors]

Any shout outs to ecompt, hey?

[keefe]

Any shout outs to ecompt, hey?

Exactly. Dude wrote for a major NYC daily for decades.

And Mod Don Burke only gets Honorable Mention? Frankly, Don Burke has more time on arena sh1tters than some of those people have been alive.

[Coleman]

Who is ecompt?

Also surprised Brian Hanley (Chicago Sun Times, CBS Chicago, 670 AM) didn't at least make the honorable mention list

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/personality/brian-hanley/

[rocky_warrior]

Yup, definitely missing two 'scoopers -

Chris Altruda
Eric Compton

probably more...

[keefe]

Who is ecompt?

Also surprised Brian Hanley (Chicago Sun Times, CBS Chicago, 670 AM) didn't at least make the honorable mention list

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/personality/brian-hanley/

ecompt wrote for the Daily News for decades. He also was involved in publishing the Complete Handbooks, sports bibles in those data starved years before Al Gore invented the internet. His total volume of work dwarfs most of those listed in the Paint Touches article.

Take Brad Galli, for instance. The kid has a great future but right now he couldn't carry ecompt's battered Royal if a deadline depended on it.

[PaintTouches]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, all. Definitely would put Hanley in the top 15, but I didn't know he was a Warrior.

On that point, I tried to maintain a broad scope, but by no means am I trying to limit to just national writers. Keep sending me peeps I missed. This is a great reference for young-ish alums and an even better opportunity to network and solidify what I think is one of the top sports journalism schools in the country. What do you think, top 3 or top 5?

1. Northwestern
2. Syracuse
3. Indiana?
4. Missouri?
5. Marquette?

[ChicosBailBonds]

ecompt wrote for the Daily News for decades. He also was involved in publishing the Complete Handbooks, sports bibles in those data starved years before Al Gore invented the internet. His total volume of work dwarfs most of those listed in the Paint Touches article.

Also wrote for the NY Post

[Eldon]

Doesn't ecompt post here?  I swear that's someone's handle

[sailwi]

You can add Greg Kot at least as an honorable mention, a good friend of mine, rock critic for the Trib and talks music on the SCORE once a week.  He has written a number of books and his best seller is how to coach girls basketball.  Bigger seller than his books on rock artists like Wilco and Marvis Staples.

Worked with Greg and Steve Aschberner at the Trib back in the day.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Doesn't ecompt post here?  I swear that's someone's handle

Yes, from time to time

[keefe]

Yes, from time to time

Well, for a man with more than 20k posts anything else is 'from time to time'!

[ChicosBailBonds]

Well, for a man with more than 20k posts anything else is 'from time to time'!

He's a friend on Facebook, we share a birthday.  Good dude.  Busy guy, grand dad, work, etc. 
He posts more on FB then here now, but I think he has made his reasons know over the years why.