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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Man unlawful

A few days after I wrote a column savaging the NFL Draft, I got a few e-mails telling me I'd violated a Man Law. Manly men can't get enough of Boomer Berman and Mel the Hairman talking about difference makers and 40 times. That got me to thinking: What other Man Laws do I break?

I mean, just because I was reading the magazine Cottage Living in the sauna at the YMCA the other day doesnt make me, um, curious. Right?

I own a pink shirt. I watch HGTV. (Love those real estate, what-half-a-mil-buys shows)... heck, I watch Fine Living. (Dream job: The Wandering Golfer) I...I... like to...garden. And cook. Occasionally, I'll watch women's golf. I ask directions.

On the other hand, I drink beer, watch The Shield and often leave the toilet seat up. I've never owned an orange car.

So, thumbs up or down on my man lawful-ness? And what might you do that breaks The Law? You've got it easy. You can be anonymous. I've got to put my name on this thing, which I gotta say is a manly damned thing to do. This will be a topic on my 700 WLW radio show tonight, 6 to 9:30.


25 Comments:

at 10:36 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doc,

Don't know you well enough to say that you break man laws. Hating on the draft is your right, and watching HGTV isn't as bad as watching Project Runway which I do. I would say man laws consist of taking care of your business, taking care of your family, and being respectable of others.

Let the haters hate.

 
at 10:56 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Okay Doc, I was with you all the way up to the gardening. You weere doing fine until then. I cook for my lovely wife, do even do laundry (mostly because my gym clothes smell awful). It's never breaking a man-law to rip on his Hair-ness, I men Mel and let's face it, Berman is over the top all the time. You do your job and do it well. Keep it up!

 
at 12:16 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

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at 12:30 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anyone who gets into the draft is either 1 - a complete loser, or 2 - doesn't have much of a life so they can spend 6+ hours sitting in front of the tv for 5 seconds of action every 20 minutes, and that's only the first day. That kind of action ratio makes soccer look exciting. I say a real man law should be that you don't watch the draft.

 
at 12:39 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I never watch Sports Center, because it sucks. I don't care how many man-laws I may be breaking.

 
at 1:01 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

OK, let's just say I'll never trust you to be alone with my 5-year-old son...

Just kidding. As long as you don't cry at movies, watch made-for-TV movies, or sing show tunes while you're gardening, you're an A-OK manly man in my book.

 
at 2:35 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doc, some people can't take a joke. Some people take sports way too seriously. Thank god you never have. Keep up the good work.dr

 
at 4:29 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

The NFL draft is for complete losers with no life. You're not breaking any law by not watching that, aside from Loser Law.

 
at 8:03 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Theres a difference between "Manlaws " and "Neanderthal-mutations". There's an evolution here and those draft losers missed the DNA-leap on the Y chromosome.I'll add 3 hours 15 minutes at Hickory Woods, Man-Law. Clarify the Adams county sabattical.Where does that fit into the new Man-Law?

 
at 6:14 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Man laws are a joke....I don't need Burt Reynolds or HHH telling me what I need to own, drink, or do in order to be a man. Hey Burt....you know what else isn't manly? botox, and plastic sugery....

 
at 7:26 AM Blogger Paul Daugherty said...

Hey, 8:03... Given I have 2 full-time jobs now, what I do out at the Adams Co. homestead is sit on the back porch like a potted plant. (And, occasionally, I do mean potted.) Keystone Light is the fertilizer of choice...don't know where that fits in ManWorld. After a few,I don't especially care.

 
at 7:30 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul--I was dying laughing when I read how you wrote "curious"...we know you meant "gay"...go ahead and write it...you're one of the last bastions of writers who haven't bowed to the PC police...please don't start now!

(On the other hand, paying your house payment and feeding your family's probably on your mind, so I kind of understand)

How about those "men" bystanders who watched that 81 year old war vet get punched over and over and over caught on tape? nobody jumped the perpetrator...nothing. I guess they didn't want to meddle in something that "wasn't their business..." as one of the witnesses stated quite chivalrously...Yeah, I'd say they all broke "Man Laws"...

Lastly,to tuff-guy dgw, I cried during Schindler's List, My Life (when the Dad, played by Michael Keaton, died...leaving his newborn son and wife behind...sorry, I'm a Dad myself), and I cried in Brian's Song, too...there's also a few others...what a wuss I must be!

Please do teach me how to be so tough, so manly!

 
at 9:21 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Doc,
I garden, cook and do laundry.
But I do not dust nor vacuum under the sofa, can't see it probably no dirt there.
But Keystone Light? Time to hike your skirt when it's become warm beer.
I mean Coors Light is an oxymoron so what's that make a Keystone Light fan? A moron?
How about one of our fine local brews like Sam Adams or Moerlein? Something w/ character and taste. No skirt lifting needed to expel when warm.

Robert Y
Milford

 
at 9:26 AM Blogger Paul Daugherty said...

Hey, 9:21... I like Moerlein.. I think Sam is overrated swill. Plus, 30 'Stones is about 12 bucks. My cheapness is locally legendary. And I like Keystone. Truly. Who's with me?

 
at 12:43 PM Blogger Unknown said...

Doc - Post your Enq columns here. Finding them on Cincinnati.com beyond the day of print is laughably awkward.

 
at 3:43 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keystone is horrendous.

Then again, I drink 40s.

 
at 3:59 PM Blogger Chris S. said...

Paul, even if I don't agree with you, I can at least see where you are coming from with virtually every argument you make, but I've got to draw the line here with Keystone Light.

You cover sports for a living. Other than actually playing sports for a living, I have a hard time thinking of too many "manlier" occupations than that. And if disliking the NFL Draft and liking gardening (is there anything finer than a fresh tomato?) is a violation of "man law," consider me Michael Corleone.

 
at 4:55 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're a girl

 
at 7:33 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Allow me to explain a few things and hopefully be accepted in the process.

When it comes to beer, I've been told I'm breaking a Man Law by drinking NA. However, if such ignorants choose to ignore that alcohol causes some medical problems for me, then so be it. Plus, I like most all NA beers that I've come across. Beer with 0.4% alcohol tastes just the same as that with 6.0%.

When it comes to covering sports, I want to defend not only Doc but also myself. I've done my share of covering sports for not only The News Record (UC's student newspaper), but also The Cincinnati post as a freelance stringer. I'm studying journalism at the moment and hope to someday not only enjoy taking Advanced News Writing, taught by the one and only Doc, but to also find myself a solid career in the sports writing field.

I don't believe I'm in need of hiking up my skirt at all!

 
at 8:27 PM Blogger Scott Evans said...

This reminds me of a story my friend in Louisville who used to be a bartender and served some of the WWE wrestlers sent down for rehab assignments. He said that Bradshaw would come in and order strawberry daquris and other umbrella drinks even though his whole persona at the time was a beer drinking Texan. Bradshaw told him not to tell anyone.

 
at 9:19 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doc,
Marty B owns a pink shirt, and how cool is he? In addition, I watch Emeril and the Iron Chef.

 
at 9:50 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keystone is pretty bad. College beer. Like Natural Light.

We were on a business trip one time, and, as those things often go, decided to belly up to the hotel bar for a round of shots. All of us order respectable things like bourbon, tequila or jaeger, and the last guy orders a lemon drop. We never let him live that down.

 
at 10:31 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's not leaving the seat up. It's never liftin' the seat at all. That's a "real man's" rule. Problems ensue...,

 
at 5:43 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

DOC

Why don't you become the GM or take Naroons place? You know more than them..Not meant Sarcastically either. Take care look forward to hearing on WLW. MIKE

 
at 10:37 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm a journalism major myself tarp7...man I'd love to take that class, I wish I went to UC instead of EKU!

 
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