Post Backs Off

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Where have you gone, Bernie Miklasz and Bryan Burwell? Scott Linehan and the St. Louis Rams declare war on the media--and you disappear from the scene, probably off to your cozy bunkers on radio and television. Jim Thomas, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's fine football writer, wrote in late July that the Rams were planning to bar the media from attending daily practice sessions.

And they did, in the week before the first regular-season game, and Thomas wrote about it. The first 30 minutes were open for ink-stained and cable-burned wretches to hang around the practice field, observing the goings-on and discussing the quality of the calisthenics while working on their tans, but then, on the Rams' practice field, a horn was sounded and the writers and …