Our plate is overflowing with gratitude

In the newspaper business, and particularly for sports journalists, you work on most holidays. “Nights, weekends, and holidays,” in fact, is what we stressed during interviews. It’s not by choice – it’s simply when sports leagues schedule games and events, so you need reporters, photographers, editors, designers, and many other folks who produce content – online and in print – working on those days.

When I was part of a start-up department at ESPN, we…