Press Row

Just updating a previous post: it looks like Len Pasquarelli has returned to ESPN.com.

A podcast posted today (9/2/08) featured Pasquarelli making division predictions with Jeremy Green.  Check out where it appeared on ESPN’s NFL page:

For starters: we’re certainly glad to see that Len has recovered well enough from his heart surgery to return to the ESPN lineup.

But with his return, we’re now left to ponder the question of where he belongs on the dot-com.

Since the Super Bowl, ESPN has hired a slew of new NFL writers, including Pat Yaskinas, who, as the NFC South writer, now lays claim to any Atlanta Falcons stories that LenPa once ruled the roost on.  (Think about it; if Lenny keeps reporting the Falcons scoops now, how does that possibly help establish Yaskinas as a credible reporter across the NFC South?)

If Len rejoins ESPN as a national columnist, he joins a fairly crowded room.  Aside from the Blog Network–who ESPN tends to give national-level columns to on a fairly regular basis–you’ll also see lead stories from John Clayton, Jeffri Chadiha, Gene Wojechowski and Seth Wickersham, among others.

Then again, it could also work into ESPN’s master plan of offering the most depth of reporting of any sports site currently available.