Thanks again, AP

As usual when a late event happens, newsroom.ap absolutely spitting the bit as everyone tries to get UMBC-Virginia pics.

Spinning beachball of death ...

 

Fwiw, I did a few Florida football and basketball tournaments for AP back in the day...

 

A quirk I noticed in AP football box scores:

Last night, Washington scores a touchdown. The PAT is blocked, and Washington State runs the ball back for two points. Yet those two points weren't mentioned in the box score.

Here's how AP reported it:
WAS — H Bryant 22 pass from Fuller (kick failed). 20-7

the next scoring play was :
WST — J Williams 1 run (pass failed). 20-15

How WSU scored the two points remained a mystery.

There should be a line that says something like, WST — Jones 2-point conversion return. 20-9.

Anyone have a reason behind this?

 

100 minutes of game time in the MLS Cup, and about 30 minutes since the end of game (as of 11:08), and all we have on the AP wire is 4 photos from 2 photographers, including 3 of Josef Martinez? Really?

By this point of the SEC championship at the very same stadium, there were upwards of 100 photos on the wire.

If this was a Falcons game, they'd already have a full page of cheerleader T&A pics.

 

All together now: "I blame soccer."

 

What did you expect when all the photographers came from North and South Carolina just to shoot the game?

 

Today's spring training glance shows the Mariners playing a split-squad game vs. San Francisco in Tokyo Monday morning our time. This might come as a shock to the soon-to-be-retired Bruce Bochy, having to fly a team across the Pacific for a split-squad game. Maybe, just maybe, it's the Yomiuri Giants, as listed on an earlier date in the same glance?

Oh, and, just a reminder. It the Nippon Ham Fighters, not the Nippon Ham Fighters.

Thus endeth this discussion of Japanese baseball until MLB again exports Opening Day.

 

Just to keep a SF_Express thread alive ...

Only been reading sports pages religiously for the last 50+ years, so familiar with agate footnotes this time of any season: x-clinched playoff spot, y-clinched division, etc. But did we really need the addition of an e-? Eliminated I assume.

 

Always hated when you were really tight for space and the explanations of those letters added a few lines to the standings.

 

A few lines I don't mind, but the e- is unnecessary. Unless some dunderhead editor wandered past the agate desk one night and asked "Are the Jaguars still eligible for the playoffs? It doesn't say so in the standings."

I still inwardly scream when I recall the night I was building the agate page and, under an editor who liked to have golf par scores in, Mark Calcaveccia won a then-Senior Tour event in a playoff. So you had the x-, a name I had to apostrophe the heck out of, his winning, his three-round score and its relation to par. One of the news editors that night (who had been a sports guy), heard me and asked what was up, and I said "Calcaveccia in a playoff." He understood.

 

It's the reason I clicked on this thread. Thanks.

 

How long has AP agate been this bad? I assume they've had to make a lot of personnel cuts too. NBA boxes have been coming over with the wrong score, then later they resend with the right score. Doesn't happen a lot, but it happens with consistency. There are also plenty of misspellings in the transactions, and every now and then a team is listed in the wrong league or sport. During bowl season, a bunch of college football odds just stopped being included for a while.