Anyone out there hate the team you cover?

[WSKY]

Never hated the team, but there have been a few players that I could care less to talk to ever again.

 

[Songbird]

Jimmy Connors was a jerk the one time I tried interviewing him after an indoor tennis match for the LA Strings.

 

[KP]

I don't think Ron Borges and Bill Belichick are making Saturday evening dinner plans in SD.

 

[DyePack]

Some idiot once bought a Packers blanket. I hate the cover of that team.

 

[RokSki]

Ron Borges - Pats

 

[sartrean]

Just curious. I'm guessing that with all the horror stories of access problems, inefficient/arrogant PR/SID staffs and dictatorial coaches, a lot of us fit that description.

Another question: If you do, how well are you able to keep it out of your copy?

I'm just working as a stringer now, and one coverage area school is doing very well in basketball right now. Surprisingly well. But it's the same ol' kids that played football and won a state championship.

I hate these kids. Their football team is awesome, their baseball team is awesome. Now their basketball team is awesome. I mean, friggin' awesome.

Their athletic director and football coach is a total forking dickhead idiot. This guy is so forking stupid it's unreal. He's like a backwoods character off of Andy Griffith and Mayberry.

And these kids are typical, stereotypical high school athletic heroes. Not one kid on any of the teams has higher than a 2.3 GPA, some have records, most can't speak in complete sentences or utter a coherent thought, and if you were to take athletics out of the school, all these kids would drop out tomorrow and spend their time shooting bottles in the yard like that Spike Jonze character did in that George Clooney movie about the stealing gold from the Iraqis.

And I've been assigned their basketball games quite regularly here and I friggin hate everything about this school.

But, I've gotten lots of positive feedback from my bosses on the stories I've turned in. I've even written several features that were unassigned.

I think I've done a good job of keeping my hatred for them out of my copy.

A big problem I got, however, is when I really like a school or a team or some kids on a team, I can't seem to keep that gushing-over-them feel out of my copy.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Hate is a strong word, but I really, really, really don't like you.

I really don't like you.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

If they have the right combination of dullness and combativeness, it's very easy to bring the hate.

 

[henryhenry]

Seriously, I usually like the players but often have despised perhaps a school's vibe from the AD to the main coaches or a pro team's arrogance or disdain for the media.

As a group, usually like the players.

as a group - yes. but there's always one or two jerks.

hate is perhaps too strong a word - how about "barely tolerate."

 

[huntsie]

Re: banging.
Male or female?

Female. And from what I heard, it was multiple students.

In my end of the year wrap-up column I gave him a brief mention, noting that at the beginning of the year he was hired as Podunk High's new social studies teacher and boys basketball coach ... and that it turned out he wasn't very good at either. Dude was an epic scumbag.

Beg to differ. Sounds like he was very good at the "social" part of social studies

 

[Bob Loblaw Law Blog]

^^^ Touche.

Except that he wasn't actually the social studies teacher. I changed the facts to protect his (OK, my) identity. But he definitely was sociable. So sociable, in fact, that the 15- and 16-year-old girls couldn't get enough of him.

Ugh. I think I'm going to puke just typing that.

 

[mannheimadler]

Just curious. I'm guessing that with all the horror stories of access problems, inefficient/arrogant PR/SID staffs and dictatorial coaches, a lot of us fit that description.

Another question: If you do, how well are you able to keep it out of your copy?

Paging those who cover, Alabama, Florida, Ohio State and Weber State...

That's a really interesting list. One of these things is not like the other ....

Just wondering how Weber State ever gets mentioned on a list with Alabama, Florida and Ohio State.