isn't it sad?

01/18/13 07:47

Years ago I heard Jack McCallum, the long-time Sports Illustrated writer, tell a group of student journalists to stay away from the word “ironic.” It was so often misused, he explained, that it was best simply to avoid it.

I thought of him the other night while watching the Australian Open and hearing Justin Gimelstob, a former tennis player turned TV commentator, discuss with Jon Wertheim, a Sports Illustrated writer doubling as a TV commentator, the recent disclosure that the CEO of the ATP, Brad Drewett, had been diagnosed with ALS. Gimelstob noted that Drewett is Australian, and called the timing of this tragic news, during his country’s biggest tennis event, “ironic.”

Wertheim, a long-time colleague of McCallum, stared straight-faced at Gimelstob, not correcting him of course, but not nodding in agreement either. I hope that, after their report, he took Gimelstob out to the word shed.

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