Cheering on press row?

Sure. I like, "Good luck, Coach. You're gonna need it."

 

I was at a game once where a reporter next to me -- I believe he was a stringer -- started getting into arguments with parents sitting behind us. The parents kept whining about fouls not being called and this guy started telling them why it wasn't a foul. Then he heckled a dad when his son's team wasn't called for the same foul he had been whining about earlier.
Where does that rank on the professionalism scale?

 

Watching a swimmer going for her first state title, I was blown away when our rival paper\\\'s editor starting cheering for her like a parent - \\\"go, go, go\\\" - as she came back to win.
Parents, scorekeepers and students have asked me who I root for. I say the same thing. Whoever scores first, because I want to get out of there ASAP

 

I alway go with an innocuous "have a good one." Have a good what? I don't care. It could be a good game, day, life, blow job, whatever.

 

Maybe a bit of the ol' in and out, eh?

 

Bill Rosinski has a syndicated weekday sports talk show based in Charlotte. He was apparently in Winston-Salem for the NCAA games on Thursday. He made quite a big deal on his Friday show about the universal joy in the press room from sportswriters watching Duke lose. Anybody in that press room on Thursday?

 

Okay, difference here between preps and colleges. Did a prep school girls final, and the star player had a game that was worse than John Starks in game 7 of the final.

After I asked her why she was so bad and how frustrating it was to miss layups, she cried at the press conference and asked her coach if she could go.

I walked out and told her she had a great career and to keep her head up. These are impressionable kids who look up to adults (which we are) for guidance. They respect your opinion, and think highly of it. No need to twist the knife in the back. It's the same as wishing congrats when they win. I WOULD NEVER HUG THOUGH. A fireable offense if you are an adult male hugging a high school girl. I have had boys players though give me that cool ghetto hug though when they see me after a game (very uncomfortable). It's more of a handshake though.

On colleges, there are more frauds on college press rows than anything I have ever seen. Let people cheer on press row. I know people who are ridiculously negative and obnoxious, and that is the same as being a homer in my book.

On the Cuse people? That's in poor taste. But it probably was because it meant less work, and that is something to cheer about.

 

On a happier note, I was as the GHSA finals the other weekend and one school had sent the high school newspaper kids with the team to cover the game. They were sitting on press row. There was three or four students and a teacher with them. The kids (naturally) got excited during the game and started cheering. The teacher immediately calmed them down and reminded them that they weren't allowed to cheer on press row.

They kept it pretty contained for the rest of the game.

 

The lede on Mandel's SI.com Story on VT/Ill.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A jubilant Seth Greenberg walked over to press row, slapped hands with Virginia Tech's radio announcers and shouted, "How'd we do that?" The rest of Nationwide Arena was wondering the same thing.

 

Is a college team's radio guy really supposed to be impartial?

 

Usually not. Listening to Woody Chapel Hill Durham in my area was always nauseating.

I've never been hugged by a student following a game. I had a coach do it once, but he was - and still is - one of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever had the pleasure to be around in this profession. There was no ulterior motive ... and I didn't see the harm.

 

Not when he's being paid by the U.