How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece status?

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

Well, I took the approach of packaging the B.O and TDF together in centerpiece, with golf dominant. NASCAR and a local football column complete the scene.

 

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

I ended up with Tiger dominating the front, w/ a column about well nothing (don't ask) and the tour also on the front.
Moved NASCAR and football media days (story from sister paper was not on four area teams) to the same color page.

 

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

Once the doping ejections happened, Landis and Levi Leipheimer were on the short list of probable winners. This isn't an upset, much less a shocking one.

Landis deserved top billing - but on Saturday's front page, not Monday's.

 

Dye- I was saying that having a smaller section on Monday morning than on Tuesday morning is stupid. Monday is the deadest day of the week.

 

OK, it's late the decisions have been made, but there's no question the big story is the British Open. Unless you're a paper with ties to Landis somehow.

How many Americans care about cycling? The Landis story was nice, but this was a TDF diluted without Lance and without the other top 5 or so riders from last year. Even if Tiger didn't win, the British Open is the top story. Golf matters more in America.

I went with the British Open dominant, with the TDF across the top.

 

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

And there we are.

I'd love to lead with Landis, but leading with anything other than the local Babe Ruth All-Stars will have an angry mob at my desk by 10 a.m.

 

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

And there's the nut of it all.

I'm a all-local weekly, so I don't have to worry about national stuff unless there's a local angle. Lots of Babe Ruth for me this week, too. Actually, it's been kind of nice covering as many Babe Ruth games as I have the last few weeks. The future of baseball in these parts is solid.

Oh, and there's no justice like mob justice.

It's the day after now, it'd be kind of neat to find out who put what where.

 

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

We hear the same crap from the idiot masses.

 

YOU'RE HIRED!

 

Finally looked at my paper today ... we went with:
* The State Open and British Open packaged together, with the lead art going with the State Open. If a non-local would have won the State Open, I figure the lead art would have been British instead.
* Two ACC media day stories at the bottom, packaged together.
* Local minor league baseball

NASCAR and Tour de France went inside, but the Tour got teased on A1 and C1, so it's not like it was buried.

 

Re: How will you play two big sports stories that both deserve centerpiece statu

Talked my way into an extra half-page. Babe Ruth results, ASA softball and junior rodeo on the first page, Landis (with art) and Tigger (no art) on the second.