Naw, this radio guy isn't lazy... (updated with admission)

It is on the back of the New York Times style guide.
http://www.amazon.com/York-Times-Manual-Style-Usage/dp/081296389X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378810231&sr=8-1&keywords=new+york+times+style+guide

 

Forward this to one of your advertising reps, so they can call him and ask if he wants to buy an ad.

 

I get sick of listening to radio guys basically read our online chats of games in progress and then proclaim themselves THE source for local sports coverage. It reminds me of hearing radio news guys where I last worked using the slogan "Hear about it today. Read about it tomorrow," and then reading their entire broadcast from the pages of our paper.
Scum.

 

Not every radio guy is like that, thankfully. The main sports radio guy in my hometown knows about everything, practically as it's happening.

 

I remember the first radio guy I ever dealt with when covering high schools. If we were covering the same football game, he'd ask to use my halftime stats, then at the end of reading off the stats, say something like, "Those halftime statistics were courtesy of the Podunk Gazette. Be sure to pick up a copy of tomorrow's Podunk Gazette to get a complete report from tonight's game from Stevie Sportswriter."

There was no cross-promotion stuff or anything, just a cool-ass radio guy who knew how not to be a dick.

 

The local guys I had to suffer through at my last stop tried to be funny (or maybe PC) by using the term "lady-on-lady defense" during basketball games.
It wasn't funny or PC, it just sounded skeevy coming out of the mouth of a 40-ish year old man when talking about high school girls.

 

Same here. Had my former publisher ask why I share information with a "competitor." I asked her, "You heard the free ad they gave us in exchange for that information?"

The last high-school PBP guy would use "person-to-person" defense during girls' games.

 

"Person-to-person" defense. That's just stupid. I've covered many, many women's college basketball games, and every single coach, when referring to that defense, always said "man-to-man." And always said, "Jill PointGuard did a great job of defending her man tonight."

Person-to-person. Cripes.

 

Send him the score of the Watersmeet Nimrods this week. Maybe he'll get the subtle hint, but probably not.

 

On-topic, I do play-by-play. We have one guy on our crew who monitors Twitter during games. We usually give about 25-30 area scores before we sign off for the night and keep people up on the local conference games. It's a wonderful invention.

On the other topic, I've been around/involved with girls & women's basketball for a long time, as a reporter and a coach. I've NEVER used the term player-to-player or person-to-person defense. My teams play man-to-man defense (and, when they listen, they play it well. When they don't ... well, there's a reason I'm a former coach).

 

I used woman-to-woman once in a story and even the coach of the team I was covering gave me grief over it the next day.

 

Area radio station for the past few years has asked listeners, AD's, etc. to text or E-mail in scores and it's worked very well. It's actually an AM/FM station that also broadcasts online games, so it sometimes covers up to four games with an overall pre-game and post-game live show from a Fricker's.
It gets scores from all over northwest Ohio.

slappy4428,
Does your state have any sort of high school sports Internet topic sites? Ohio has Northern Ohio Sports Forum, jjhuddle and Yappi Sports, among others, and Friday night results are usually very easy to find here.