Brian Hofmann
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Brian Hofmann
@BrianHofmann
Digital Director @nbc4i WCMH-TV | Longtime journalist. Father of four. I'm always busy. | Past: @DispatchAlerts, @DetroitNews, @HeraldDispatch | Go Herd
Columbus Katılım Mart 2009
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@tylerkennett Tagging @kcollierwrites. The Herd scene over there is still pretty lonely.
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Hey! I’m looking for input this afternoon.
Do you use bluesky? If so, do you like it?
Curious if it would be beneficial for my MU folks to make an account/post updates there as well. Feel free to leave a response. Thanks!
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Something positive happened today and I don’t trust it. 🦬
Marshall Football@HerdFB
WE’VE GOT A NEW GAME
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When he retired, it opened the way for my first full-time role.
Anniversaries of tragedies remind us not only of the lives lost but of those who continued and all they got to accomplish that the others never did.
Miss you, LC.
#WeAreMarshall #75Week
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Instead, he became one of the many could-haves from that tragedy, like Ken Griffey Sr. (it's true) -- yet something rarely acknowledged. His life didn't end. LC continued telling stories and developing others in the craft (me included). He left behind children and grandchildren.
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🧵It's Nov. 14, a reflective day for us #GoHerd fans, and earlier this week, we happened to lose one of the great Huntington sportswriters, a former colleague and the man who taught me so much about sports agate, Lowell Cade.
herald-dispatch.com/sports/former-…
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@BrianHofmann @tombreihan do you have a link? I'm striking out!
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@tombreihan OK ... I figured out how to go straight to your page over there
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@tombreihan I'm looking for you over there, Tom. You may need to make a post to be visible
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I've edited sports copy for decades, and in no way is listing peeves, no matter how correct the concepts behind them may or may not be, a way to coach better storytelling. And getting that out of sportswriters is always the goal, not restricting vocabulary.
APStylebook@APStylebook
A team losing a game is not a "disaster." Home runs are homers, not "dingers," "jacks" or "bombs." A player scored 10 straight points, not 10 "unanswered" points. If a football team scores two touchdowns and the opponent doesn't come back, say it "never trailed" rather than "never looked back." In short, avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations.
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Update: it’s fine. Everything’s fine.
David DeGuzman@ddeguzmanTV
Wisdom teeth coming out in the morning. Send good vibes!
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I love getting to see this page again. I was on the H-D's sports desk then. This was the stadium extra edition that was printed around halftime and displayed right as time expired. That's why there's no score! Remember it, @sportsturtle11
Tom Bragg@TomBraggSports
It already had its hooks in me, but Marshall lost the 1995 I-AA national title game at home to Montana when I was 11 and it ripped my guts out. The next year the Herd came back with Randy Moss, dark visors, striped socks and SMASHED Montana in the title game. It was over for me.
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Hedge once sat on the hood of the car of Marshall's AD to get his questions answered when his phone calls weren't returned. Like the best reporters, he could take no as a reporter, so long as you answered him.
I'll miss him.
Paul Swann@PaulSwann
Just learned that retired Herald-Dispatch sports editor Rick McCann passed away yesterday. 'Hedge,' as he was known to friends, defined the word curmudgeon, but deep down, he was a big teddy bear. I’ve missed seeing him at Marshall events. Condolences to his family and friends.
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@sarahszilagy @nbc4i You did exceptional work, and I know you'll continue to do so in the future. You'll be missed!
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Some personal news: Next week will be my last at
@nbc4i. I'm so grateful to have been able to cover my community and state, and to work with some of the hardest working journalists I know. I'm not leaving journalism, and I'm not leaving Columbus just yet.
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