Quarterback Sack

As I've mentioned before, my favorite sports columnist is Gregg "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" Easterbrook. He wrote a football column, first for Slate, then for ESPN, that was entertaining and thoughtful enough to draw my attention to the strategic aspects of the game, and finally turn me into a football fan. (Go Rams!)

A couple of weeks ago, he made a self-destructively stupid post to his weblog on another site entirely, and a huge furor erupted in the media / weblog world. Despite an apology, he was summarily fired from ESPN. I was going to go off on my own rant about the matter, but I never got very far with it, and it has been discussed to death elsewhere. (I even found myself reading *shudder* punditarian sites in my attempts to follow the story. Hopefully, I'm cured of that now.) I've had at least one comment wondering about what was going to happen to the TMQ column; fortunately, Easterbrook himself has resurfaced with a few remarks on the incident and the future of TMQ.