Some stories you know will take off, generating so much reader response that my text message group here with IndyStar readers will overheat. History – 12 years on this job – tells me that. Any time I write about the Indiana Fever, for example. Or about Indianapolis Colts QB Anthony Richardson. Just one of those things you know will happen, before it happens.
Other stories, you know will take off – not from the topic's ubiquity, but its uniqueness. A column on Warren Central two-sport athlete-turned-broadcast journalist Michael Grady, who scraped and hustled his way to the top of this media market and is now doing the same nationally with the WNBA, NBA and NFL? That column is going to take off. People love reading about a local who's made it big.
And then there are stories like the Indiana Pacers coming to terms with DAZN on a deal that guarantees Pacers fans access to games on local TV and guarantees the streaming experience – a problem for Pacers games since 2021 – will be of the highest quality.
That column? You write it, because it's important, but you figure it won't generate a huge response. The column is obvious and happy, and readers would rather complain about Fever trolls or Colts QB's or whatever. Some things, you just know.
But sometimes you're wrong.
#stories
Other stories, you know will take off – not from the topic's ubiquity, but its uniqueness. A column on Warren Central two-sport athlete-turned-broadcast journalist Michael Grady, who scraped and hustled his way to the top of this media market and is now doing the same nationally with the WNBA, NBA and NFL? That column is going to take off. People love reading about a local who's made it big.
And then there are stories like the Indiana Pacers coming to terms with DAZN on a deal that guarantees Pacers fans access to games on local TV and guarantees the streaming experience – a problem for Pacers games since 2021 – will be of the highest quality.
That column? You write it, because it's important, but you figure it won't generate a huge response. The column is obvious and happy, and readers would rather complain about Fever trolls or Colts QB's or whatever. Some things, you just know.
But sometimes you're wrong.
#stories
27 days ago
