USA Today Sports Weekly Celebrates 25 Years

Sealed in its first year with a compliment from Roger Angell.

Last fall, The New Yorker editor David Remnick told Fast Company that baseball writer Roger Angell had adapted to the Web “with as much energy as a 25-year-old blogger.” Albeit a blogger with the rare privilege of posting if and when they see fit.

At press time, Angell’s most recent New Yorker blog post is dated Nov. 5, 2015. And in fact, not long after that youthful praise, Angell told Remnick on an episode of The New Yorker Radio that he was contemplating “stopping blogging,” because he felt his online items were not up to the level of his print pieces.

Coincidentally,

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