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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Don’t think she got dumped. She took an ESPN job in Pittsburgh. So in essence she got a promotion.
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She took over that the Steelers beat on their little SB Nation sort of blog site. She kinda/sorta has a similar gig to Teicher now.
I guess that's a bigger and healthier entity, but it's also a complete dead-ender. She's not moving up at ESPN and she's not getting a bigger press gig anywhere writing that piddly-ass column that nobody reads.
The KC Star has been, and in many ways still is, a stepping stone for significant national journalists to kick-start their careers. She got a sweetheart gig there and had a fantastic opportunity to follow the career path of far better writers that came before her in that same chair.
And she turned it into a 'pivot' to ESPN where she'll just kinda slowly fade away. If for no other reason than, as was mentioned BEFORE all the Tyreek Hill stuff - she's just a
bad football writer. She's been put in the spot that least allows her to demonstrate any skills she may have. She's been sent to writer Siberia, IMO.
I'd say it's largely a lateral move but what it truly is, is a waste of a fantastic opportunity presented to her. Everyone that has done that job well before her has gone on to greener pastures. She saw barbecuing Hill as her jumping off point to national prominence. It most assuredly didn't work out that way.
EDIT: And I absolutely think she was dumped. That kind of in-season swap just doesn't happen unless the Star had told her to go find something else post-haste. And they sure had Teope lined up quickly, didn't they? But/for the Hill fiasco, she's still our 'lead' beat writer. {shudder}