Beware, Trentonian offering jobs that don't exist

New guy assigned himself to cover the state high school swimming championships on Sunday... or at least his byline wound up on the story that appeared in the paper.

 

who the hell has a state swimming championship on a SUNDAY? I've never heard of a state association that schedules championships on a Sunday.

 

Could've meant Sunday's paper.

 

I'm presuming you don't know a lot about the NJSIAA. I wouldn't be surprised if they held them in the middle of the night, or outside.

 

In New Jersey, the NJSIAA does.
For the swimming championships, the preliminaries were Saturday and the finals were Sunday.

For the wrestling the pre-quarterfinals and quarterfinals were a Friday night, the semifinals and three rounds of wrestlebacks were Saturday, and then the Championships, and the Consolation finals were on Sunday.

In NJ, this one I get a laugh out of ... the Catholic Track Conference (all the parochial schools) typically holds its championship on a Sunday. Encouraging all those high school student-athletes to be participating in sports instead of going to church on a Sunday.

 

If he thinks covering the swimming championships was his section's most pressing need, he's an idiot.

 

In his first week, he's also assigned himself stories on Gary Matthews' father (he called him to get comment on his son's alleged steroid use - like his old man is gonna say something negative or incriminating!), a girl at CNJ whose picture was on the cover of SI, then did a fancy-schmancy box on Kentucky derby contenders (lips firmly planted on Jelenic's buttocks) and the swimming. The sports section does not need another writer - it is in dire need of copy editors/paginators. But alas, he does not paginate. Another great Trentonian hire!

 

I still don't grasp how they do their football classification system. Not so much the scheduling, just the system. All season long, the equivalent of Class 1A schools in most states go head-to-head with what would be 4A and 5A schools. Then at the end of the year they're spearated out and put into public and parochial, and their own classifications. Just makes my head hurt thinking about it.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled JRC bashfest...

 

Sorry for another brief threadjack, but the explanation:
In NJ, for football, they break the schools up by public and parochial/private, and then into four groups, based on student size, within each of those divisions. Then in the public school sector, they divide the four groups into four sections (two for the densely populated northern part of the state, one for the central, and one for the south). Each group has a sectional champion. For some reason in football they stop it there, so you have 20 teams as a 'state champion'
In nearly every other sport they continue on to determine Group champion, and then in some sports, a tournament of champions to determine an overall state champion. Regular season schedules are simply done by conference. If there's a huge school and a small school in the same conference, odds are they'll play eachother.

 

It is in dire need of someone with even the vaguest sense of design and an understanding of what makes a tabloid sports section work.

 

The Trenton Times did a story on that CNJ girl back in December (or January). About time the Trentonian and Sports Illustrated caught up.

 

Bob is into horses now? Wonder how many writers and editors will get laid off to keep his nags in oats?? Maybe he'll just turn the whole company into one big glue factory.