How did your paper handle the U.S. soccer loss?

What page was the story? Whose story did you use? Did you have anything else in your section about the game?

Our market's metropolitan daily had a game story staff-written from the site and accompanying column, not written from the site, and a picture atop the front page of its sports section.

I've long wanted to ask how newspapers handle major stories and major events and I'm finally getting around to doing that now.

 

10 p.m. deadline. Not a word. Wire story went online shortly before 1 a.m.

 

Why, my old rag didn't have an edition yesterday. I win. I guess.

 

How often is it published?

 

3x/week. Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday. That is, by the way, a state capital's lone daily.

 

Top brief on page 2. Three local stories on the cover and an NFL midweek story. SE is a pretty strong soccer hater who apparently enjoyed the result quite a bit. Then again, he wrote a column a couple weeks ago about how he wasn't going to do NFL picks anymore because he has "lost interest." (Anthem protests were on his list of grievances but last. I have my doubts that list was in order.)

 

Our five-page section of a mid-size daily consisted of two college football stories on local teams, three high school football advances, a bunch of high school garbage called in, a college football page that sets the stage for the weekend, a scoreboard page, staff football picks, and the MLB playoff stories. Not a word on U.S. soccer, just like we like it.

By the way, who beat us and what was the score?

 

USC, 17-2. Best team anywhere.

 

I chatted with two local high school soccer coaches and wrote a piece trying to localize the idea of the loss setting back soccer across the country.

 

Like it or not, soccer is big among the generation(s) that count(s). Trying to ignore it is not smart business.

And here's all your paper needed to publish, courtesy of Scott Reid of the OC Register:

Time for U.S. Soccer, MLS to face some soul-searching, painful truths – Orange County Register

 

And Pulisic grew up how far from there? about an hour?

 

I thought the "we're not going to cover World Cup because I don't like soccer" ship sailed years ago.