Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville to publish three days a week

UAB fans are pretty classy. Mostly because they're all rich. Irvine was a super beat guy and I feel bad for this new fella.

 

Have you ever read his stuff in the Eagle? He'll do just fine.

 

This 1980s sitcom fan laughed out loud. Good one.

 

Ditto. He's an excellent writer and a great guy.

 

Actually, the small colleges are split three ways. Nick Birdsong is handling the HBCUs. Tommy Hicks has everything else south of Montgomery (Troy, South Alabama, Huntingdon and Faulkner). Drew has everything north of Montgomery (UAB, West Alabama, Samford, North Alabama and Jacksonville State).

 

I just meant having to cover all those schools. It sucks to NOT have a true beat writer for the FBS school in your paper's town. But, I digress. This state will never stop sucking on the tit of Bama/AU.

 

Lots of metros are that way. Dallas and Houston seem to do more on Texas/Texas A&M than their local schools. How much stuff do the Chicago papers do on DePaul, UIC, etc. vs. Illinois, Notre Dame? Same for Kansas City, Cleveland and plenty of others.

 

And those schools will never grow or become better with athletics (although UAB is... err... was a basketball school.)

 

Well, today's the day. And even though I'm keeping my job, it sucks.

My best friend at the Press-Register, who is being laid off, posted a picture of himself with head bowed next to the newsroom dry erase board inscribed with the now-infamous "Newhouse Pledge," which reads:

"No full-time, non-represented employee shall lose his/her job for economic or technological reasons for as long as this newspaper operates." #FTP (Fuck This Place)

 

Did anyone do the math? How many let got? How many new hires, and where?

I've followed the thread, but haven't really kept count.

 

It's not the job of a newspaper to help a school "grow or become better with athletics."

 

He's young Six Toe. He doesn't know that yet.