Tara Sullivan: What Does the Globe Have Here?

[Van Everyman]

Reading her column on the hubbub caused a decade ago when Augusta refused to let her into the locker room to interview Rory McIlroy.

When she first started at the Globe I felt they were kind of force feeding the “woman columnist who talks only about equality and social justice issues” angle. And to be sure she writes about those issues a lot. But I’m finding her columns to be very thought provoking and well-written.

What do others think?

 

[ColdSoxPack]

The first column of hers that I read she ripped Tuukka for leaving the bubble last season. It was a bad take.

 

[Phil Elliott]

I think she's great. I don't a!ways agree with her takes, but I think she's a terrific writer and breath of fresh air at a sports page that desperately needs one.

 

[Van Everyman]

Yeah that’s my sense as well. I’m not sure what Joe Sullivan was really about but it seems like she was exactly the kind of hire that didn’t happen under his tenure [EDIT: it did, according to @Chad Finn]. Different voice, not simply one of the boys, etc.

In some ways she’s similar to what Sally Jenkins brings to WaPo in that she writes about the intersection of sports and social issues (instead of just sort of passing along male conventional wisdom on the subject at hand) but with more of a beat writer’s sensibility and insight into the daily grind of the sport itself.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Yeah that’s my sense as well. I’m not sure what Joe Sullivan was really about but it seems like she was exactly the kind of hire that didn’t happen under his tenure. Different voice, not simply one of the boys, etc.

In some ways she’s similar to what Sally Jenkins brings to WaPo in that she writes about the intersection of sports and social issues (instead of just sort of passing along male conventional wisdom on the subject at hand) but with more of a beat writer’s sensibility and insight into the daily grind of the sport itself.

I think the Sally Jenkins comparison is an apt one.

 

[Granite Sox]

She sure as shit puts more thought into her columns than Shank...

 

[Phil Elliott]

She sure as shit puts more thought into her columns than Shank...

Everyone's local village idiot exceeds Shank's efforts in the thought department.

 

[Chad Finn]

I think the Sally Jenkins comparison is an apt one.

Joe hired Tara. Nice to see this thread. She's a great teammate and one of the best deadline writers I've ever seen.

 

[Van Everyman]

Joe hired her.

That's helpful, Chad, thanks -- I will edit the post to reflect that.

 

[Chad Finn]

That's helpful, Chad, thanks -- I will edit the post to reflect that.

You bet. I think he wanted to hire her for a while before she signed on. Shared New Jersey roots as well as a last name.

 

[Van Everyman]

Great piece on Bull Durham here.