Comments on: About Roy S. Johnson

By: Tim O'Donnell

Tim O'Donnell — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:51:43 +0000

So now your next target is the Tour de France. They should quit racing for 3 years just so they can continually test people to get the cheaters out? Why punish the 98% of them that are legit? You are way off base, don’t know what you’re talking about, and way out of your league. Stick to a sport you know at least SOMETHING about. The way the tour is handling it is great. Bam, you’re gone for 2 years. They should make it 5 and eventually the knuckleheads that are trying to cheat know they can’t win and will stop doping. Speaking of doping, is that why you wrote a column on a sport you know nothing about?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:09:30 +0000

Your mama raised a fool. She named him Roy.

By: TK

TK — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:37:55 +0000

About your recent column on Federer:

What a junk “nothing else to write about so we’ll prematurely(by 4 or more years) talk about Fed losing his skills and retiring. Journalism like this is just lazy. The man had mono for the first part of the year and still has lost only 6 times. With Andre Agassi and Carlos Moya having and still, in Moya’s case, playing top 15 tennis into their 30’s, makes the story even more fabricated. Ask anyone in the top hundred, who they’d least like to play in the 3rd round in Wimbledon or the US Open out of Fed, Djokovic, Nadal, Roddick, Nalbandian etc etc and 99 out of 100 say someone other than Roger. I love how the media loves to turn on players like Fed that give back to the sport and keep tennis’ standards high, just for the sake of writing a weekly column. Trash guys like Baghdatis, Mikhail/Dmitry/Marat or a cheater like Davydenko….not the good guys that truly love the sport and give it their all every tournament.

By: Wendell Wallace

Wendell Wallace — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:28:46 +0000

Mr. Johnson,
I enjoy your blog and the commentary you provide concerning the sport issues of the day. I currently have a blog that concentrates on the world of sports, but also ventures off into other topics that concern me and others in our community. My address is wendellwallace.wordpress.com and I would like to have the opportunity to interview you for putting audio content on my blog. Another request if possible would be if you could add me to your blogroll. I feel strongly in my abilities to produce an interesting, entertaining blog and hope your blog could introduce fellow bloggers to mine. Thank you for your time.

By: The Buzz Kill by Scott’s Shots

The Buzz Kill by Scott’s Shots — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:01:20 +0000

[...] out this cached entry from Yahoo! contributor Roy Johnson (ex of Sports Illustrated and the New York [...]

By: Wendell Wallace

Wendell Wallace — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:53:42 +0000

By: TL

TL — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:55:13 +0000

Roy- I enjoy your blog and link to it from my start-up blog, as well. Hope things are going well. TL

By: Anirban Ghosh

Anirban Ghosh — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:27:32 +0000

Roy:

You are an intelligent and articulate man. Your viewpoints are nuanced. To suggest that you should skew away from racial issues defeats the point of free speech: the ability to ponder on issues from any angle.

I cannot say I agree with you all the time. Indeed, a recent article on Beyonce as the SI Dreamgirl is an example where I felt you were missing the idea that the primary demographic for SI’s swimsuit issue is Caucasian.

However, I enjoy reading your observations. Your writing is engaging and accessible. I hope you continue writing this blog for the foreseeable future and look forward to them. One thing that I feel you should do a little more often is personal reflection from your own history. You have a rich set of experiences from covering sport events; it would be interested to see a juxtaposition of current events and lessons learned from the past.

All the best.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:21:49 +0000

Mr. Johnson,
Just finished reading your awful article on Psycho T, a name given to him by his black teammates. Not only is it completely plagiarized(citing Freeman doesn’t excuse blatant plagiarism, and I think SI ran an article on the same topic his freshman year), its completely misguided. I did a little research on you and found the race card seems to be the foundation of your writing topics.
Let your merits hang on what you get paid to do. You don’t get paid to be a black man. You get paid to write. The underlying self deprecation in your writing equates to a black Woody Allen. Talk to you never.

By: Steve B.

Steve B. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:34:30 +0000

I first want to state that I very much enjoy reading your blogs. I do have a problem with your openly pro-black & anti-white remarks. I say “black” because I am black and an American. My parents, grandparents, great-grand parents, etc. were all American. My family came to America 6 generations ago from Africa. They were brought over as slaves. I do not know wether your family were slaves, but if so retributions have been made. Growing up as a black man in America has put forth opportunities that I would not have had as a white man. My Mother is a single parent. Because of this and the color of my skin, I was able to attend college for free. This would not have happened if I were white. My work ethic and morals have made me who I am today. I have not been repressed because of the color of my skin, nor have my family members. I find it offensive when black men, like yourself, continually write about how the black man is disappearing in sports. The black man is disappearing because we have become a lazy, disrespectful culture. People like you only inflame the thoughts that the white man is keeping us down. We (as a culture) think everyone owes us something. We choose to live in slums, have kids with random drug addicts, and start gangs. All this because we (as a culture) feel somehow oppressed. I may be a little off the subject, but people like yourself irritate the heck out of me. You made a good life for yourself because you wanted a good life. There are fewer and fewer whites in pro sports now than ever before. Why do you not blog about this situation.

I am an American! That is it. No skin color. American! You are a racist. An American racist. Leave race out of your blogs and see how far you get.