Mark Heisler, the former Los Angeles Times basketball writer, reflected on the glory days of the paper's sports section (and the paper's new efficiency) in a piece he set to Romenesko.
Heisler was laid off last week in part of a new round of layoffs.
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"The staff I joined in 1979 was good, bordering on mind-blowing which we achieved for a few brief and shining moments around the 1984 Olympics," he wrote.
Heisler then listed the laundry list of well-known and lauded writers the paper had in the 1980s, starting with the inimitable Jim Murray.