Gary Washburn replaces Marc Spears at Globe

[Jeff]

Via Marc Spears

http://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/3201568582

Congrats to ex-Sonics writer Gary Washburn, for replacing me at The Boston Globe.

[Jeff]

I believe this is his blog

http://gary-washburn.blogspot.com/

[Jeff]

here's his blog from back in Seattle

http://blog.seattlepi.com/sonics/

[BudweiserCeltic]

First order of business is to get him over to CSL, then ask him if he's hungry like a wolf.

[SSFan 6.33]

BostonSportsMedia.com has this story:

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/08/gary-washburn-set-to-replace-spears-at-globe

Late Saturday night, former Boston Globe basketball writer Marc. J. Spears posted the following on Twitter:

    Congrats to ex-Sonics writer Gary Washburn, a former LA Daily News colleague of mine, for replacing me at The Boston Globe to cover the NBA.

Gary washburn, I haven’t seen anything official in The Globe, or on Boston.com, but we’ll take Spears at his word for this one.

Washburn was formerly the beat writer covering the Seattle SuperSonics for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Neither the team (now the Oklahoma City Thunder) or the newspaper (now online only) exist any longer. Washburn was with the paper from 2005 to 2009.

Prior to his time in Seattle, Washburn worked from 2002 to 2005 for MLB.com, covering the Baltimore Orioles. He also spent four years (1998-2002) covering the Oakland A’s for the Contra Costa Times and five years (1993-1998) covering the Clippers and Lakers for the Los Angeles Daily News. While at the Contra Costa Times, Washburn also wrote a TV/Radio column.

Since May of this year, Washburn has worked as a blogger for AOL Fanhouse, covering mostly the Pac-10. He’s also been maintaining a personal sports blog – Gary Washburn’s Sports Blog.

[JSD]

Washburn was formerly the beat writer covering the Seattle SuperSonics for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Neither the team (now the Oklahoma City Thunder) or the newspaper (now online only) exist any longer. Washburn was with the paper from 2005 to 2009.

Kudos to him to not drinking full time.

I enjoyed Spears and I'm looking forward to reading Washburn's stuff.

[SSFan 6.33]

I like the fact that Spears likes him.

I wish him well -- we can be a tough audience.

[Chris]

Anyone know anything about this guy?  It was a real blow to both the Globe, and C's fans when Spears left.  He was the best writer covering the C's since probably Michael Holley (if not longer).  The reporting since he left has been subpar at best (in fact, they have mostly been referencing Spears' articles on Yahoo, rather than digging things up themselves).

[SSFan 6.33]

here's his blog:

http://gary-washburn.blogspot.com/

[Jeff]

here's hoping he has some sources of his own