Declared ineligable

Spell it: I was watching ESPN's college-football show, and they had a line at the bottom of the screen that said that Dez Bryant was declared ineligable. Two or three minutes later, they changed it to ineligible.

Head game: You've heard of the "Dog Whisperer," and NYTimes.com had this provocative headline on its story, "Whispering to Rottweilers, and to C.E.O.’s". I prefer CEOs, though. ... Here's a Times headline about the Minnesota Twins dumping the Metrodome for an outdoor park -- "No Roof? Twins Say They Have It Covered". Nice. The story, however, eventually came out with this headline -- Twins Say Farewell to Season and Dome. Oh, well. ... An AOL Sports story, Twins' New Home on Target, takes advantage of the new name of the new park, Target Field.

Contact: Email me at tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com. Also, my Twitter handle is EDITORatWORK.

More EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!