At Deadspin, John Koblin points out Michael Wilbon’s laments about what the latter thinks is a lack of stellar sportswriting from the past year, then sets up the ex-Washington Postie perfectly as a segue for rolling out the best sports shouters of 2012:

What better example than Wilbon himself, co-host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption—a man who abandoned prose so he could be adamant about things on television?