It's Better Across The Pond

During a decade of travels across Europe, a copy of The Guardian has been my constant companion. It’s a great newspaper and has been light years ahead of its American counterparts in embracing technology and new media. This week’s Football Weekly podcast cements its status as the best. Exhibit A is this excerpt (at 38:20) where, in response to his strong finish in an impromptu on-air quiz, Barry Glendenning quips:

"Like the bloke in Lutze's 'special interest' video, I came from behind with a surge."

I'll take the New York Times seriously as a modern media outlet as soon as I hear George Vecsey on a baseball podcast describing the Yankee's April as "A Rod's deep drives come to nothing."