Journal Star reporting

[BuB]

I know the Journal Star announced a couple months ago that they were changing the way they cover high school sports. I think the article mentioned they would have fewer game stories but would have more highlight columns that would mention who won all the games involving area teams and players who had a good game. Plus they would still publish the box score.

Unless my morning paper was missing a page in the sports section, the J.S. missed a whole bunch of game summaries and individual leaders in the "Preps Daily" wrap up summary for both girls and boys in today's paper. Multiple area teams that played got zero coverage besides a box score. I am not sure if it is now the responsibility of all the area coaches to call in results, but if it is, the Journal Star should still at least write a sentence or two in the nightly summary column for all area games. I understand the need for newspaper budget cutbacks but today's paper had terrible coverage for high school girls/boys basketball . Football still seemed to have lots of regular season game stories.

[tornado]

perhaps it's because of a combination of factors -
lots of football news going on, holiday weekend, and for the high school basketball - a lot of the games were played in tournaments out of town, and a lot of the games in town at the Tournament of Champions were between teams that have no local connection...

[wily coyote]

Last Sundays sports page was a total waste of paper. We are being robbed at the cost of the paper today. I realize they said they were going to make changes and cut down the individual game stories but last Sunday we had 7 local games and had 1 write up. Coaches and kids work to hard to get so little coverage. If it wasn't for the Sudoku and crossword puzzle I'd drop my paper today and that's still a possibility. When I officiated games years ago we had great coverage of local games but todays coverage is what I would call lousy at best.

[Da Coach]

There is less and less coverage of college and pro sports, and almost no news reporting other than picking up brief summaries of stories from the news services. Plus there are way more ads. In several recent papers, more than 75-80% of the front sections were advertisements! Sometimes several full page ads back to back to back to back, etc. I know the reason is that they losing money, but if they can't retain some vestige of integrity and decent reporting, they should just close things down.

[BuB]

Last Sundays sports page was a total waste of paper. We are being robbed at the cost of the paper today. I realize they said they were going to make changes and cut down the individual game stories but last Sunday we had 7 local games and had 1 write up. Coaches and kids work to hard to get so little coverage. If it wasn't for the Sudoku and crossword puzzle I'd drop my paper today and that's still a possibility. When I officiated games years ago we had great coverage of local games but todays coverage is what I would call lousy at best.

It has been terrible coverage and it is even worse for the girls. With a few exceptions, what the JS is doing is creating "highlights" from the box score details. Like "Team A" outscored "Team B" in the 2nd half to complete a come from behind victory. Or "Player A" scored 24 points in leading his team. Or "48" as being the number of combined free throws shot by 2 teams in a game. DUH......just tell people a couple things about the game that a fan can't figure out by looking at a box score.

[Chico]

Wear a protest t-shirt and you'll be sure to get coverage from that rag.

[BuB]

Wear a protest t-shirt and you'll be sure to get coverage from that rag.

Pam Adams will take that assignment every opportunity she gets.

[tornado]

Wear a protest t-shirt and you'll be sure to get coverage from that rag.

amen - even the post-game press conference with some coach named "Muffet" went on for what seemed like hours about how sacrificial & saintly it was for the players to do this, and how important it was to raise awareness for whatever it was on their t-shirts.

Seriously - is there even one single person alive in America that isn't already fully aware of the issue they were protesting?
I doubt what they do make anyone more aware of anything than they already are. Instead - whatever side you might be on - it just polarizes people even more and lessens the experience that people actually paid the ticket price to enjoy.

[Chico]

Don't like to watch the NBA much anymore and like it even less nowadays. NFL getting close also. Hurry up baseball. Maybe the players over there will realize the truth. Hope so anyway.