METEOR TO HIT THE WASH POST TODAY

[lichoya68]

ok NO MENTION OF US BEING NUMBER 11 IN BOTH POLLS IN FACT NO LISTING OF THE TWO POLLS.. THEN NO MENTION OF GREG BEING PLAYER OF THE WEEK BY BIG EAST AND THE ESPN THINGY THEN A TOP OF THE PAGE ARTICLE ON DINO GREGORYS RETURN FROM ACADEMIC PROBLEMS AND HOW HES HELPING THE TWERPS TO A 6-3 RECORD.. THEN AT LEAST WERE FIRST IN THE LOCAL POLL AND MD IS RATED FOURTH BEHIND US AND VA. TECH AND WILLIAM AN MARY BUT THEN they list the quitet schedule for the weeek whos NOT playing including md.. and grreat game tech vs. charles sou and w and m vs. vassar and they dont mention a great game on sat at mcdonough with a very good odu team UNREAL let the meteors fly to the post today full speed CANT SOMEBODY ELSE WRIGHT TO COMPLAIN TO THEM ANYBODY THIS IS RIDICUOULOUS WE WILL KEEP WINNING AND THE REST OF THE COUNRTY MUST FOLLOW US BUT PERHAPS NEVER THE POST.. PS SOMETIMES I GET STUCK ON THE CAPS THINGS AND MY KIDS TELLL ME IT MEANS YOUR ANGRY THIS TIME THEY ARE FREAKING WRIGHT go hoyas beat odu..

[EasyEd]

What's new in this?

[bigelephant]

What's the best e-mail address to use to get thru to the sports editor?

[DanMcQ]

MCI, you've changed.

[TrueHoyaBlue]

This is pretty disgusting -- I don't mind the fact that they're running a feature on Dino Gregory for the mediocre turtle fans, because that's pretty standard.

But running a piece on Jeff Allen winning the ACC player of the Week (and highlighting it on the WaPo.com front page) while ignoring Greg's BE player of the Week, not too mention mention by ESPN as the national player of the week, is disgusting.

And to even miss the ODU game while picking up the William & Mary vs. Vassar -- seriously, Vassar has a team?

[bmartin]

There is a Liz Clarke feature on the WVU rifle team.

[mdhoya97]

it makes even it more sad that barker davis will be gone soon. No love from wapost and therefore will be no real local coverage of the best local team.
-m

[Gold Hoya]

I guess you can email Kornheiser's show; he's always willing to complain about the Wall Street Post

[centercourt400s]

I think that the Post's Sports editor is Matt Vita. At least that is what is indicated by a web link to an online chat he did in October www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/14/DI2009101402637.html.

If he is the right guy, the Post has a link where you can contact him:
projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/matthew+vita/

They also show a feedback email for the sports department as [e-mail].

Enjoy...

[bigelephant]

I e-mailed Liz and here is her response - not satisfactory as far as I am concerned - it does have the sports editors name and e-mail

We don't typically update schools' ascent in the polls. I'm quite aware Georgetown plays Old Dominion Saturday. That's why the story about the game runs Saturday; not Tuesday.
The college sports editor is Matt Bonesteel ([e-mail]), if you'd like to voice further complaint. I am responsible for coverage of Hoyas alone; not relative prominence of Hoyas vs. Terps,
Liz

[Boz]

You get the feeling Liz might not like us Hoya fans that much?

Possibly because we bash her pretty much weekly for being a fairly lousy reporter and a mere shadow of Barker Davis. That could have something to do with it.

You gotta' trust me on this one, Liz. You do a really nice Hoya feature and you will be shown the love. I'm still waiting......

[rosslynhoya]

To be honest, her story about the disbanding and resurgence of the WVU rifle team is pretty well written, for a WaPo story about redneck stuff anyway.

I do get the impression that she thinks the Hoyas beat is beneath her though ;-)

[kchoya]

I think the Hoyas beat has been an afterthought for the Post for years now, at least in how they assign reporters. Usually, it seems, papers assign college beats to younger, up and coming reporters, who "graduate" on to the pro teams. At the Wall Street Post, we get reporters like Liz Clarke and Ken Dellinger, who have been around forever and seem to get put on the Georgetown beat just to have someone covering the team.

[TrueHoyaBlue]

Yep, and probably the best Post beat reporter that we've had in the last several years, Camille Powell, seems to be splitting duties between Terps women's basketball and Navy football these days.

[CAHoya07]

Meh, just win and everything will take care of itself. ;D

[GUHoya07]

Dec 15, 2009 11:09:39 GMT -5 CAHoya07 said:

Meh, just win and everything will take care of itself. ;D

Everything except for coverage in the post.

[DanMcQ]

Dec 15, 2009 9:52:26 GMT -5 Boz said:

You get the feeling Liz might not like us Hoya fans that much?

Possibly because we bash her pretty much weekly ..

There is a lot of truth in this.

[FewFAC]

We're not good enough to be top 10 because we wanna fly beneath the radar, and when we fly beneath the radar at the WaPo, we wanna be covered like we're top 10. Personally, given the afterthought Georgetown athletics is to the WaPo, the WaPo is basically an afterthought to me. Seems fair.

[SFHoya99]

Well, some of the bashing is unwarranted.

But seriously, 50% of her articles have a factual error in them. Maybe the WaPo has just stopped factchecking (yes, yes, ed/vado/boz, etc., insert easy political joke here), but they are often pretty obvious errors that could have been mitigated by checking hoyabasketball.com.

[EasyEd]

Dec 15, 2009 11:32:06 GMT -5 SFHoya99 said:

Well, some of the bashing is unwarranted.

But seriously, 50% of her articles have a factual error in them. Maybe the WaPo has just stopped factchecking (yes, yes, ed/vado/boz, etc., insert easy political joke here), but they are often pretty obvious errors that could have been mitigated by checking hoyabasketball.com.

From Ed: what's new?