The author that I chose was Mike Lupica. A quote from his column NY Giants must look at season as a whole and not just focus on finish, that shows his opinion on the subject is, " When they still had a season ,they couldn't beat a good team. The seven losses in a row didn't happen to somebody else." This quote shows his opinion on how the Giants season went, he thought it wasn't very good because they lost a lot of games. Another line that showed the authors opinion is ,"A fellow Giants fan said to me, "Another step in the wrong direction." This is were Mike Lupica used a quote to help support his opinion on how the season went. The last quote is from another column, Knicks' plan still hard to buy after trading J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert. The last quote that shows Mike Lupicas opinion is,"There is still no way to know if Fisher can coach at this level, the way there is way to know if Jackson can build a successful basketball team." This quote is saying that it is too early to tell if Jackson is a good manager and if FIsher is a good coach.
The author uses rhetoric in his Columns. One example from his column: NY Giants must look at season as a whole and not just focus on finish is," Have they had an unusual amount of injuries? They have." Here is an example that uses rhetoric in which the author uses a rhetorical question and a sentence fragment. An example from another one of his columns, Knicks' plan hard to buy after trading J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert, is, "Now 37 games into a five-year, $124 million contract-" The author is using rhetoric because he is stating stats and numbers which is Logos ( a type of rhetoric).