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Unpardonable Interruptions

How television killed the newspaper sports column.

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Correction, Jan. 26, 2005: This piece originally stated that Stephen A. Smith once said that "substance without style doesn't mean a damn thing." He actually said the reverse, that "style without substance doesn't mean a damn thing." Return to the corrected sentence.

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Stephen Rodrick is a contributing editor for New York and a writer-at-large for Los Angeles magazine.

Photograph of Tony Kornheiser by Linda Spillers.