Longtime local sportswriter John Zant rubs shoulders with Mayor Helene Schneider
Today, we’re gonna ‘shake it up a little’ with yet ‘nother WeissCrax Exclusive!!
This sting investigation focused on those in the field with always pen, pad, cool hi-tech video recorder, laptop, or camera in hand. Then zooming to make deadline.
Yes, always deadlines.
We’re talkin’ sports writers.
Usually found working solo … in small sideline packs … huddled at Harry’s for Santa Barbara Athletic Roundtable’s Monday Press Luncheons.
All a friendly fraternity blanketing Santa Barbara sports scene ‘like nobody’s business.’
Comaradie across the competition, amidst greetings like, “Hey, did ‘cha hear…?” Or, ”WOW! Did you see …?”
Good stuff like that.
And soooo …
This exhaustive report is delivered to you right here, right now at Presidio Sports with a twist and a little razzle-dazzle … Vegas style!!
To the cadence of Entertainer Barry Manilow’s ‘I Write the Songs’ we debut (with our apologies to him and his ‘fan-a-lows’) … for the first time ever, ladies and gentlemen and kids of all ages …. They Write the Sports.
Don’t remember Barry’s classic oldie? No clue? No worries. Here’s a video that will help fill you in:
Now be bold – sync it up with these brave new lyrics …
Blake Dorfman and Presidio Sports' very own Randy Weiss
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THEY WRITE THE SPORTS
They’ve been writing forever
Athletic pieces of all of sorts
They put the words and the photos together
They are media
And they write the sports
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They write the sports that sometimes might zing
They write the sports covering special things
They write the sports that make you laugh and cry
They write the sports, they write the sports
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They can score deep within you
Melt your heart and touch your soul
It’s like looking out through their eyes
Whether you’re very young or if you’re very old
Dos Pueblos Athletic Director Dan Feldhaus and Presidio Sports' Barry Punzal at the girls water polo CIF title game in Irvine.
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They write the sports, features, scores and game reporting
The write the sports about the winning and the losing
They write the sports that make you wonder why
They write the sports, they write the sports
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Oh, their words make you dance whether reading or just a glance
Guys like Barry, Blake and Zant are in that groove
Sports that fill your heart, there’s no other place to start
It’s for me, it’s for you
Its for you, it’s for me
Watch Mike Klan and read ‘Mike T’
San Marcos student activities director Aaron Solis and KEYT sports anchor Mike Klan
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They write the sports about kids, the small and the very tall
They write the sports all seasons, summer, even (Gerry) Fall
They write the sports that you don’t see
They write the sports, like DeFina – that dude on KEYT
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They write the sports so you will knooooow
They write the sports on-line right here at Presidioooo
They write the sports so you don’t have to guess
They write the sports, none better than Patton at New-Press
Mark Patton, Barry Punzal and John Dvorak
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(OK – now strong, dramatic finish, Hit it!)
THEY ARE MEDIA AND THEY WRITE THE SPOOOORTS …
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“Thank you. Thank you very much.”
And now the shocker — in the interest of full journalistic sportz disclosure — Barry didn’t
even write: ‘I Write the Songs’!!
Remember — you heard it right here at Presidiooooo …
