Article from Tulsaworld.com about Jim Les

[Da Coach]

This piece from Tulsaworld.com is a nice article about BU coach Jim Les, but there is a mistake with the picture they have accompanying it. The caption suggests the picture is Jim Les, but it is actually a picture of Virginia coach Dave Leitao.
I emailed the author, so it might get changed, but the original picture is below.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?articleID=20080329_2_B1_spanc48120

Picture--

http://www.tulsaworld.com/mm/photojournalism/relatedphotos.aspx?articleID=20080329_2_B1_spanc48120

TOUGHENED UP
Jim Les: Bradley coach says adversity helped him discover a lot about his team.

[DG Murph]

The writer also made an error by claiming we beat SIU at home.

[Da Coach]

The article still shows the picture of Dave Leitao, but they are aware of the mistake, and maybe it will get corrected soon. I got this nice reply back from Eric Bailey, the author of the article. The mistake was not his, and was made by an editor who should have found and posted a pic of Jim Les--



Thanks so much for the note. Somehow our editing staff ran the wrong picture and it's discouraging. I'm going to send a note of apology to Bobby Parker to give to Coach Les.

Thanks so much for pointing that out. I've already have a phone call into my sports editor and forwarded your e-mail to him and our desk chief.

I'm looking forward to seeing Bradley in person. In doing more and more research, they seem like a very exciting team to watch. I'm also looking forward to my first trip to Peoria on Wednesday. I worked in Springfield, Missouri covering different SMS (Now Missouri State) athletics, so I'm familiar with the Valley. I have a lot of respect for the MVC.

Again, thanks for the head's up. Please have a nice weekend and enjoy the games next week

Eric Bailey

[JBinPeoria]

Having been around print media (a little), Eric is most likely right. The writers are not the ones that select the pictures used with the article. Those decisions are typically handled by photo editors. I would assume that either the photographer provided an incorrect caption to the photo or the photo editor messed up.

[Bravesfan]

Well, they did add a correction next to the picture, but still have not replaced Leitao's picture with Les's. I do find the posts at the bottom of the article funny though.

[Da Coach]

The writer also made an error by claiming we beat SIU at home.

They also printed a correction for this. They intended to say Illinois State, not SIU--

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080331_1_A3_ulliA72170