ESPN's Tim Cowlishaw Blasted For Scooping NY Jets Beat Reporters

Tim Colishaw on "Around the Horn"

From the, "This is really silly to be angry about" file, we have news that New York Jets beat reporters are pissed off with ESPN Personality and Dallas Morning News Columnist Tim Cowlishaw for breaking the story that Jets' Cornerback Darrelle Revis was set to sign a new contract with the organization on Wednesday.

Cowlishaw, a regular on ESPN's Around The Horn with Jay Mariotti and other media-types, tweeted that

Revis and Jets announce new deal, probably Wednesday. You heard it here first. "Inside information!"
about 22 hours ago via web

Then, about five Tweets later, Cowlishaw forecasted that New York Jets beat reporters would attack him:

I expect Jets writers to shoot down what I wrote about Revis. That's their job. It's not Wednesday is it? I fully expect it then.
about 21 hours ago via web

And he was right. As NewsDay's Bob Glauber pointed out "there have been a few follow-up tweets by Jets beat reporters, including @TheJetsStream (Manish Mehta of the Daily News) and @JennyVrentas (of the Star-Ledger), as well as ESPN's @Adam_Schefter suggesting that the report is not accurate."

And NBC Sports on MSNBC wrote a totally terrible take on Cowlishaw's find:

Keep in mind that Cowlishaw is a columnist -- not a reporter -- but an end to the stalemate obviously makes the most sense for both sides.

Time out. Only a terrible, box-oriented, really small-minded person would think of writing such a statement, let alone thinking it. There's no law by God that says a person's title prevents them from doing anything, or more specifically, knowing something that a person who's title indicates a specialty in that subject is supposed to know.

It also indicates that a narrow mind is closed to information from non-conventional sources. It's no wonder Old Media-types fail.

To counter that, alone, the hope here is Tim Cowlishaw's correct on Wednesday. I've been in that position regarding Major League Baseball and the Oakland Athletics; in that case, MLB delayed the release of the Oakland A's report, and they're still sitting on it.