Hooray for Yahoo!

I keep reading about how Yahoo needs to do this and that to fix things and make a more profitable company. I don't know about any of that - it strikes me that the company is being measured by standards which are unrealistic and crash prone. In any case, I will say this for Yahoo: its sports coverage is very good, and its college football coverage is absolutely outstanding.

Two examples will suffice: Death to the BCS, a book with a self explanatory title, the centerpiece of a running battle to dismantle college football's idiotic postseason system, which has largely played out in columns on Yahoo Sports. And now, this Woodward and Bernstein quality investigation into Nevin Shapiro and his extended career of illegal interactions with the University of Miami's athletes.

Charles Robinson, Dan Wetzel, Jeff Passan, Josh Peter: keep up this amazing work. Thank you.

Outscooped

Yahoo! has outscooped the New York Times. A while back, the Times ran a piece about The Onion's excellent coverage of Joe Biden's shirtless, philandering ways. Trying for a quote, they were politely knocked back by an aide. But Yahoo! got the man himself on the record, saying the Onion's version of him is hilarious.

This makes me very happy.