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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 18, 2007 6:07:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm complaining about this stuff again. Sue me.
I don't ever recall, when a DC area team makes the tournament, the Post not assigning a columnist to cover the games. It doesn't matter if the teams are a 1 seed or a 14 seed. One of the columnists is there to follow the action and do a write-up. Mike Wise has been with the Terps (and done a column about VCU too in between). Wilbon went to Sacramento to cover the Colonials. Feinstein is doing his roaming job and has written something concerning the Virginia Cavs. But the Hoyas have gotten nothing. Not only was there not one single column for their first game against Belmont (I repeat I can't recall such a thing happening before), but there apparently isn't a column for the Hoyas game against old rival Boston College. Two straight NCAA tournament games, zero columns.
Before an apologist use some lame excuse about the Hoyas being a two seed and therefore expected to win let me point out once more that in the past when a DC area team was a top seed the Post still assigned a columnist to all their games. A few years back when Maryland went to two straight Final Fours and was a 2 and 1 seed, the Terps had a columnist assigned to every game, even in the first two rounds. Besides what's the problem if the local teams are the favorites in a game? The Post probably prefers the local teams (both pro and collegiate) winning the games they cover because it would make for better stories (from a local viewpoint that is).
Right now the Post has some issues with their crop of columnists. Kornheiser is no longer writing columns and even when he was still doing so he didn't like to travel. Wilbon signed a major contract with ESPN/ABC and he admits his loyalties are now more with those networks than with the Post which means his time covering local teams for the newspaper is limited. Thomas Boswell tends to write exclusively about baseball these days with a few Redskins, Wizards and college columns thrown in each year. Sally Jenkins won't leave her apartment in NYC long enough to follow any of the DC area teams regardless of the sport. And Feinstein, the Post's college basketball expert, will cover every local and national college team EXCEPT Georgetown. The only columnist that doesn't have any hang-ups or issues apparently is Mike Wise but he can not be everywhere at once.
How hard would it have been for the Post to send Boswell to North Carolin?. Or send Jenkins a little bit further north to cover the Terps in Buffalo while sending Wise south to follow Georgetown?
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Post by cuvahoya on Mar 18, 2007 7:31:17 GMT -5
You are totally right! We get more play in the New York papers. We are on the back page of the New York Daily News & both the Daily News & the New York Post have columns about the BC game.
Don't fret it though. Let's just keep winning.
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Post by dairishhoya on Mar 18, 2007 8:06:47 GMT -5
You are totally right! We get more play in the New York papers. We are on the back page of the New York Daily News & both the Daily News & the New York Post have columns about the BC game. Don't fret it though. Let's just keep winning. In fact, we are one of the top three stories on the homepage of the New York Post ... compared to not even appearing on the homepage of the WaPo, including their NCAA Tournament section under the main photo. Unbelievable. Here's a direct link to the NY Post story: WE'LL BC-IN' YA! HOYAS SEND EAGLES PACKIN' 'SWEET' WIN AS HOYAS SEND EAGLES PACKING www.nypost.com/seven/03182007/sports/well_bc_in_ya__sports_lenn_robbins.htm"He kept throwing the ball at me [as he made a basket] and I said, 'Yo, let's just play ball,' " Sapp told The Post. "That was just like a Big East game." |
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Post by lichoya68 on Mar 18, 2007 8:18:06 GMT -5
agree more coverage in the ny papers now and in the big east tourney but they dont have md anymore so as ive said all along keep winning and they kinda have to write about us right i mean WRIGHT WHO HAD I THINK 57 POINTS LAST NITEE WOWWOWOWOOW GO HOYAS OLD AND NEW AND FUTURE YES YES YES
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Post by mdhoya97 on Mar 18, 2007 8:22:48 GMT -5
We still got Camille.... but it would be nice if we got a featured columnist to cover the story.
It still annoys me when you go to the wapost website under college sports, and gtown section is all the way on the bottom. I can understand when umd is the hot team, but currently we are the hot team, and should get appropriate spot. Or just make it alphabetical.
Camille article though came out pretty fast last night.
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Post by SaxaCD on Mar 18, 2007 8:37:43 GMT -5
You are totally right! We get more play in the New York papers. We are on the back page of the New York Daily News & both the Daily News & the New York Post have columns about the BC game. Don't fret it though. Let's just keep winning. In fact, we are one of the top three stories on the homepage of the New York Post ... compared to not even appearing on the homepage of the WaPo, including their NCAA Tournament section under the main photo. Unbelievable. Here's a direct link to the NY Post story: WE'LL BC-IN' YA! HOYAS SEND EAGLES PACKIN' 'SWEET' WIN AS HOYAS SEND EAGLES PACKING www.nypost.com/seven/03182007/sports/well_bc_in_ya__sports_lenn_robbins.htm"He kept throwing the ball at me [as he made a basket] and I said, 'Yo, let's just play ball,' " Sapp told The Post. "That was just like a Big East game." Not only that, but YESTERDAY Steve Serby wrote a column for the Post about the Hoyas having to defend the Big East's honor. It was Serby, so it was pretty crappy, but it was still the kind of column you'd expect out of the local paper, not one 300 miles away. The Post sort of adopted the Hoyas during the Big East tournament, after PE Jr.'s big game against Notre Dame. The Ewing angle was too good to pass up, and they put him on the back cover that day, and have another pic of him in the online article today. |
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Post by Massholya on Mar 18, 2007 9:53:15 GMT -5
*&!#$ ESPN too! Top 10 plays yesterday does not include either Jeff's dunk or PE Jr off the amazing roy dish.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 18, 2007 9:56:57 GMT -5
MCI: seems like they might have a job opening - perhaps you should apply.  |
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Post by vamosalaplaya on Mar 18, 2007 10:08:42 GMT -5
Your average newspaper is having deep financial problems these days; advertising lineage is way down, so is readership. With both Maryland and GU playing big games, I can see the Post having budget issues and obviously covering Maryland because of their bigger fan base. The last time both GU and Maryland were good together it was a different era for newspapers.
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Post by geedell on Mar 18, 2007 10:32:27 GMT -5
In the Post's defense...I'm pretty sure Wilbon would've been there if not for the check he's collecting from ESPN.
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Post by calihoya07 on Mar 18, 2007 10:39:16 GMT -5
Tom Boswell was on the media list at Winston-Salem. Why he didn't show, I have no idea...
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Post by geedell on Mar 18, 2007 10:54:56 GMT -5
Tom Boswell was on the media list at Winston-Salem. Why he didn't show, I have no idea... That's interesting |
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Post by vcjack on Mar 18, 2007 10:58:47 GMT -5
Well, at least we don't have to rely on the Winston Salem Journal for coverage, that is a work of journalistic art
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 18, 2007 11:08:39 GMT -5
Your average newspaper is having deep financial problems these days; advertising lineage is way down, so is readership. With both Maryland and GU playing big games, I can see the Post having budget issues and obviously covering Maryland because of their bigger fan base. The last time both GU and Maryland were good together it was a different era for newspapers. The same excuse. Jenkins and Bosworth are under contract. Tell them to go cover a team. If Feinstein doesn't want to cover the Hoyas because he is only a hired gun rather than a regular columnist then take him away from the Virginia coverage, send him to cover Maryland instead and send Wise to follow Georgetown. Hell, Wilbon went to Sacramento to cover that lame George washington team. Sacramento! George Washington?!? Give me a break. The excuses made here for the local media coverage are just as bad as the excuses made for why Gtown can't afford to : extend contract for the head coach/build an on campus arena/build a new practice facility/ be truly competitive in a major conference, etc. |
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Post by guru on Mar 18, 2007 11:09:14 GMT -5
it would be nice to have enough time on my hands to get worked up about stuff like this. The Post had a huge cover of the Ewing jam on the front of the sports section. I'm sure there will be plenty of coverage this week. And really, who the hell cares?
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 18, 2007 11:10:18 GMT -5
Tom Boswell was on the media list at Winston-Salem. Why he didn't show, I have no idea... Probably couldn't pull himself away from exhibition baseball games. |
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 18, 2007 11:16:18 GMT -5
it would be nice to have enough time on my hands to get worked up about stuff like this. The Post had a huge cover of the Ewing jam on the front of the sports section. I'm sure there will be plenty of coverage this week. And really, who the hell cares? If you don't care, guru, then do yourself a favor and find a darn thread with a darn subject you do care about. Unless you don't have enough time on your hands to consider all your options. Why spend time in this thread when you don't apparently care about the topic? Also if the Hoyas had lost to BC yesterday there wouldn't have been any such oportunity to get "plenty of coverage" this week. That's why you send reporters and columnists to all the games, You know, in case the team you're supposed to be covering actually loses. Are the people at the Post able to see into the future? |
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Post by Boz on Mar 18, 2007 12:27:10 GMT -5
*&!#$ ESPN too! Top 10 plays yesterday does not include either Jeff's dunk or PE Jr off the amazing roy dish. Don't worry about it. Those dunks being collected for a much more high profile highlight reel, the one that airs around midnight on April 2. |
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Post by mit0313 on Mar 18, 2007 12:37:50 GMT -5
Wilbon has been in his 2nd home in Phoenix the past few weeks so he was already on the West Coast...
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 18, 2007 13:52:44 GMT -5
Well, at least we don't have to rely on the Winston Salem Journal for coverage, that is a work of journalistic art I actually really enjoyed reading the Winston-Salem Journal, lots of writing that straddles the line between ridiculous and hilarious in a way that is very enjoyable. "Georgetown's student section was feeling sufficiently fat and happy" ... you can't beat that kind of down-home, country-fried writing. The journalistic equivalent of Prissy Polly's BBQ down in Kernersville, NC. |
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