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The Wall Street Journal, sports and cats

The Wall Street Journal‘s sports desk has started a video segment called “Sports & Cats” and calls it a “hard hitting series.”

In the first episode, sports columnist Jason Gay previews Super Bowl XLVIII with guests Geoff Foster and Baxter the Cat.

Baxter is described as a domestic short hair. He appeared on the show from a live remote near MetLife Stadium, the site of the Super Bowl.

Said Gay: “Sports and Cats is a longtime passion project for Geoff, Marshall and myself. Discussed for months, it became a reality this week after an intense and briefly scratchy session videotaping my family cat, Baxter. We intend to submit for Pulitzer consideration next year.”

Marshall is Marshall Crook, a Journal video producer.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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