Dear dimwit on the phone

You know what else is great? When a team e-mails in a full blown story instead of plain results and you have to read through it to figure out who did what and what the final score is.

 

Nope. Home book is ALWAYS the official book. Visitors aren't required to even have someone keeping book - so why would you think they should be assessed a TO?

 

Yeah, that's a bitch, too. But better to have too much information and cut it down yourself than not have the essential information and have to write/call back to track it down.

 

Delaying the game .... it went on for a while.

 

is that right, mark? thanks for stopping by.

 

Dear Dimwit Who Comments:

No, the state basketball tournament committee did not specifically schedule one local team in the morning session and one in the afternoon to force local fans to buy two tickets.

They are in different classes, and this is the way the pairings work every year. So, the matchups were set *before the season started*.

 

I emailed them this year and last, letting them know that we run their results each week. Still no weekly submission, but they have no trouble getting a photo in.

 

Wow, that is a dim-witted complaint.

 

Hey...at least they understand a final score is kind of important and don't leave it out like mine do half the time...lol

 

I am not completely certain, but I believe Iowa (and it might be a NFHS thing) has a rule, in basketball at least, that "electronic devices" are prohibited from being used on the team bench during the game. So, things like iScore couldn't be used during the game and things like foul count, shot chart, etc. couldn't be shown to the coach. I'm not totally certain, but I wouldn't doubt it's something Iowa/Nation has a rule. I remember reading something to that effect at one point.

So, if my memory is serving me correctly, that would be the reasoning for a technical foul for the visiting team.

 

It's probably an NFHS rule. Baseball has a POE this year about coaches not using tablets as scorebooks in the coaches box.

 

That might be a safety factor to prevent a coach getting injured because he's distracted by a tablet.

Today's dimwit: Someone who claims we ran a photo of the starters on the bench at the end of their loss in Friday's state semifinal (girls) to embarrass them. I wish it was something like that because the actual reason was that our stringer photographer sent crowd shots and the like directly to the managing editor and she liked the photo, not knowing the context. If I had known myself that she had that photo, it would have been THE ONE that I would have advised not to use.

Oh, and the story of their win in the third-place game should have been on the front page because this was the highest they've ever finished. Never mind that we didn't even put stories on the front page when the football team won its two state titles or the boys basketball team won back-to-back state titles.