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Advantage Cartwright

By Tom Kirkendall

Texas Monthly's Gary Cartwright caught my eye recently with this op-ed in which he bemoans the decline of sports writing in Texas.

I mean really. Can anyone who regularly reads the sports pages of Texas newspapers make a good faith argument against the notion that the current slate of Texas newspaper sportswriters cannot hold a candle to Dan Jenkins and his contemporaries?

Enter the Chronicle's lead sports columnist, Richard Justice.

Justice -- whose shoddy reporting, vapid analysis and bizarre blog comment attacks have been a frequent topic here for years -- essentially proves Cartwright's point about the demise of Texas sportswriting with this snarling and petty reply to Cartwright's op-ed.

An old saying in India is that "sarcasm is the last weapon of the defeated wit."

Justice is living proof of the truth of that adage.

Full post as published by Houston's Clear Thinkers on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).