Madgesdiq
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Post by Madgesdiq on Mar 11, 2010 14:28:04 GMT -5
Eh, just look at that picture. She seems like one of those cold, soul-less women who's never been "loved," if you know what I mean. Not only was 6 1/2 the spread on today's game, but it is also the o/u on number of cats Sally Jenkins has.
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b52legend
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Post by b52legend on Mar 11, 2010 14:28:26 GMT -5
Do you guys think she will write an article about our poor late game FT shooting?
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Post by williambraskyiii on Mar 11, 2010 14:49:29 GMT -5
wait, Doris served Sally J. on the broadcast? How so?
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Mar 11, 2010 14:56:17 GMT -5
Sounds like you guys just didn't like the article because she's a woman. [scarcasm] Aww, Ed, are you playing the victim again? Nope, just giving it back to those who claimed the same about Doris Burke.
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TC
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Post by TC on Mar 11, 2010 15:21:01 GMT -5
Dumbest article ever, especially the part where she calls Austin Freeman apathetic.
What can we do to get Ken Denlinger back? He was a pro compared to Jenkins or the pie lady from Kansas at the Washington Post.
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mapei
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Post by mapei on Mar 11, 2010 16:19:35 GMT -5
Not only was 6 1/2 the spread on today's game, but it is also the o/u on number of cats Sally Jenkins has. LOL! She was really over the top, taking the team's real inconsistency issues and using them as a basis for attacking people's personalities. She basically knew what her angle was going to be before the game against USF ever started. And, while I don't think it's entirely wrong to write that they lost it as much as we won it, a hater's column was a very strange thing to publish immediately after a 20-point conference win. It's too bad that she writes infrequently and probably won't have another column until today's impressive win is old news. I wouldn't say that Liz has been drinking from the same well, though. I heard her on Tony K's show Wednesday morning and, although like many of us she was unsure which Hoya team would show for the tourney, there was no doubt that she was pulling for us.
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austintex
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Post by austintex on Mar 11, 2010 16:34:58 GMT -5
Do you guys think she will write an article about our poor late game FT shooting? Tomorrow's Post headline: "Poor Free Throw Shooting and Turnovers Nearly Cost Hoyas a Win" The first paragraph will detail how we have to correct these problems if we want to make it past the first weekend of the NCAAs.
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Post by rockyhoyashow on Mar 11, 2010 17:09:34 GMT -5
When did she start covering the hoyas?...this season has been rough for hoyas' newspaper coverage. First we lose Barker Davis, and then this Kathy Bates look alike garbage journalist began writing such inspiring articles about the hoyas.
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MCIGuy
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 11, 2010 17:59:40 GMT -5
When did she start covering the hoyas?...this season has been rough for hoyas' newspaper coverage. First we lose Barker Davis, and then this Kathy Bates look alike garbage journalist began writing such inspiring articles about the hoyas. Jenkins has been covering the Hoyas Big East Tournament games since the Final Four season. Frankly I think Liz influenced her (or maybe she got tips from Feinstein). Anyway the WPost, Sports 980, Comcast (DC version), WJFK (another all sports radio station) and the free DC newspapers HATE the Hoyas. If not hate then the Hoyas come a distant, distant, distant 2nd to their precious, beloved Terps. I'm done with all of them.
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austintex
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Post by austintex on Mar 11, 2010 19:43:27 GMT -5
I suppose it's because, despite being disproportionately represented in positions of power and influence, there are relatively fewer Georgetown alumns in the D.C. area than there are the unwashed multitudes who attended UMCP -- so they're catering to the larger audience.
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Post by rosslynhoya on Mar 11, 2010 20:07:38 GMT -5
I suppose it's because, despite being disproportionately represented in positions of power and influence, there are relatively fewer Georgetown alumns in the D.C. area than there are the unwashed multitudes who attended UMCP -- so they're catering to the larger audience. Compared to Twerps, Georgetown fans tend to have a better-than-third-grade education, which is correlated with full-time employment, which leads to discretionary income, i.e., the ideal target audience for area advertisers. The business case clearly favors the Hoyas, yet the Post persists in their tilt toward UMd. Is it any wonder their business model is an indisputable failure?
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hoyarad
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Post by hoyarad on Mar 11, 2010 20:33:58 GMT -5
On the Washington Post online chat with Eric Prisbell, he did mention that the Post had no less than six people covering the ACC tournament. And, most of the questions he fielded had to do with Maryland. One post on Gtown was from a Syracuse fan.
The article today was frustrating, because the team deserves more (appropriate) coverage. I wonder if some of the lack of coverage has to to do with how accessible our players are.
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Post by gambo on Mar 11, 2010 21:02:28 GMT -5
The color commentator (Doris?) on todays ESPN broadcast is probably married to John Feinstein, and I heard her cousin is Sally Jenkins
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geedell
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Post by geedell on Mar 12, 2010 0:06:59 GMT -5
Normally I don't get up in arms about the Post's coverage, but this kinda got under my skin. After the Hoyas beat a team by 20...TWENTY...she saw fit to say this team was inconsistent and it was more that they were playing a bad basketball team.
For whatever reason, she saw fit to insult the team.
Then today. After an outstanding win, at a game she HAD to have attended. Nothing. Not a word. Hard to find something negative to say after a game like this so don't write anything at all.
Truly upset.
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MCIGuy
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 12, 2010 0:09:38 GMT -5
I doubt she attended. It fits her pattern. Show up for one game, skip the next, then attend another game if the home team is still around.
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Post by jld54 on Mar 12, 2010 7:43:55 GMT -5
The NT times has a Thamel article on the SU beat down which carris the same theme. His article is all about the Onuaku injury and how GU is so inconsistent. This is the mantra of the uninformed and/or anti-GU media crew.
The ESPN announcers pointed out yesterday during the game that GU had a killer BE regular season schedule, played SU and VU twice, and WVU, Louisville, MU and Pitt on the road. This combined with so-so depth, a young team and some illness accounts for our season. But with an SOS of 1 and a top 10 RPI nearly all season, I will take where we are right now.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Mar 12, 2010 8:53:26 GMT -5
None of this is surprising. Georgetown rarely wins a game according to any media outlet that I've seen. The other teams just always happen to lose.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 12, 2010 8:59:50 GMT -5
yeah according to my parents who are in rome right now Italian newspapers reported we lost to USF by 20.
It's a global conspiracy!
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GUMBA
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Post by GUMBA on Mar 12, 2010 9:14:28 GMT -5
Remember that journalism these days is all about eyeballs and money. The Post caters to the biggest reader audience. That audience is Maryland fans. They sell ads for papers and on-line to companies that pay for readers eyeballs. Not enough Hoya fans out there I guess.
What kills me is the story that runs next to Liz and Sally's lazy Hoyas slam pieces that says the ACC is better than everyone thinks. They quote ACC players to make the case. And in the slam pieces they quote Mr. Jones who says it wasn't the Hoya defense that made them miss shots and lose the game by 20 points. I wouldn't want these writers to be judges in their second careers.
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swhoya
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Post by swhoya on Mar 12, 2010 9:48:37 GMT -5
This is my response to Sally Jenkins and her silly little article, with the role of Ms. Jenkins being played by Mrs. Phelps.
Watch from the beginning until the 1:30 mark. I nominate Awesome Freeman to play Tom Berringer's role:
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