Breaking: You sportswriters out there waiting to cover the shortened NHL season, put down your pens.

Ron Rosenbaum at the Observer confirms my earlier post that many writers don't trust their tape recorders and prefer even not to use them, although perhaps that's not how it should be.

Can you trust blogging the way you 'trust' journalism? E. Spiers investigates. (Although it has to be credible if they give out awards for it.)

Speaking of believing, are we giving too much credit to Jose Canseco, who dated Madonna, used steroids and let a ball bounce off his head once?