Dear dimwit on the phone

Pics of high school cheerleader up-skirt shots? Really?

 

That six is four full-timers and two stringers. And it's down from six full-timers and two stringers when I took over as SE six years ago.

We had four of those 18 make it to state title games.

 

It must be tough for local radio. Our flagship high school reached the boys state championship game and the local sports talker did not do the broadcast (it was, however, on statewide TV). Some of the smaller surrounding town radio stations did theirs. though.

 

But, but, you should write a column complaining about that, and the radio station will be shamed into airing more games!

 

Yeah...really. I guess the smiley face didn't give away the joke enough?

 

Another problem may be that while Podunk High doesn't charge a rights fee, the state association might. It may be just a couple of hundred dollars, but if the broadcasts are barely making money or breaking even, this might make the difference.

 

They missed a pretty damn good high school basketball game, too.

 

Yes they did - and so did I, sitting in the stands at the debut of yet another indoor football team here.

 

Indoor football? Yeesh. That is something I do not miss covering. I once worked with a reporter on the newsside who had such a hard-on for the local indoor team he bitched about our sports department blowing off a "meet the players" event. . . .which happened during the final round of a PGA tour stop in town

 

Call of the week so far, and it's early:
"Sports, HanSen."
"Yes, I just want to say that I know the basketball games are important, but we had the band and percussion championships here on Saturday and there wasn't a single thing in the paper about it ...."
(Quickly regrouping mentally) "Uh, percussion ... like in music?"
"Yeah. We had a lot of kids out here ..."
"You've gotten the sports department, ma'am. We don't cover music."
"You don't?"
"No, we're the sports section. I can transfer you to the news department if you like ..."
"What about competition cheer?"
"That would be news too. Would you still like to talk to the news department?"
"Okay."
So I punch all the right buttons and send it off to the news editor with a warning: "Good luck."

 

Nice. It is annoying how off-the-ball news departments can be sometimes, where if it's not town / city council, they don't give a shit.

 

At our shop, they love getting those type of things on the schools page...it's usually the parents calling in that are convinced their trumpet player is an athlete