Brian Hofmann

Digital Director @nbc4i WCMH-TV | Longtime journalist. Father of four. I'm always busy. | Past: @DispatchAlerts, @DetroitNews, @HeraldDispatch | Go Herd

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Somehow this is not me and @JerodNBC4

#GoHerd

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@tylerkennett Tagging @kcollierwrites. The Herd scene over there is still pretty lonely.

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Shortest coaching search in Herd history or what

[Marshall Athletics @HerdZone]

𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑻𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚, 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝑮𝒊𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒏!!

Marshall Football announces Tony Gibson as the 32nd head coach in program history.

🔗: https://t.co/haMi9SSgHn

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@JerodNBC4 @ddeguzmanTV @joeboo81 I haven't sat in 20 minutes

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When he retired, it opened the way for my first full-time role.

Anniversaries of tragedies remind us not only of the lives lost but of those who continued and all they got to accomplish that the others never did.

Miss you, LC.

#WeAreMarshall #75Week

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🧵It's Nov. 14, a reflective day for us #GoHerd fans, and earlier this week, we happened to lose one of the great Huntington sportswriters, a former colleague and the man who taught me so much about sports agate, Lowell Cade.

https://t.co/K5GgkWET9X

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Instead, he became one of the many could-haves from that tragedy, like Ken Griffey Sr. (it's true) -- yet something rarely acknowledged. His life didn't end. LC continued telling stories and developing others in the craft (me included). He left behind children and grandchildren.

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@nina_econ @tombreihan https://t.co/mfwZiniqH5 🙂

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@tombreihan OK ... I figured out how to go straight to your page over there

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@tombreihan I'm looking for you over there, Tom. You may need to make a post to be visible

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I've edited sports copy for decades, and in no way is listing peeves, no matter how correct the concepts behind them may or may not be, a way to coach better storytelling. And getting that out of sportswriters is always the goal, not restricting vocabulary.

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

A team losing a game is not a "disaster."
Home runs are homers, not "dingers," "jacks" or "bombs."
A player scored 10 straight points, not 10 "unanswered" points.
If a football team scores two touchdowns and the opponent doesn't come back, say it "never trailed" rather than "never looked back."
In short, avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations.

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@ddeguzmanTV Get feeling better, and watch out for flying pucks

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I love getting to see this page again. I was on the H-D's sports desk then. This was the stadium extra edition that was printed around halftime and displayed right as time expired. That's why there's no score! Remember it, @sportsturtle11

[Tom Bragg @TomBraggSports]

It already had its hooks in me, but Marshall lost the 1995 I-AA national title game at home to Montana when I was 11 and it ripped my guts out. The next year the Herd came back with Randy Moss, dark visors, striped socks and SMASHED Montana in the title game. It was over for me.

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Well, OK then. I can't imagine the emotions.

https://t.co/A0zLnQMaLe

[Paul Swann @PaulSwann]

I just spoke with @sportsturtle11, and thankfully, Rick is still with us. Multiple people had reported to Tim that Rick passed away on Saturday.

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Hedge once sat on the hood of the car of Marshall's AD to get his questions answered when his phone calls weren't returned. Like the best reporters, he could take no as a reporter, so long as you answered him.

I'll miss him.

[Paul Swann @PaulSwann]

Just learned that retired Herald-Dispatch sports editor Rick McCann passed away yesterday. 'Hedge,' as he was known to friends, defined the word curmudgeon, but deep down, he was a big teddy bear. I’ve missed seeing him at Marshall events. Condolences to his family and friends.

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Still fighting that good fight, @Ben_Orner

[NBC4 Columbus @nbc4i]

Ohio bill to pick a state fish swims through Statehouse https://t.co/a42dm33kvg

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@sarahszilagy @nbc4i You did exceptional work, and I know you'll continue to do so in the future. You'll be missed!