The Internet is an equal opportunity disseminator. It allows private citizens, print media, broadcasters, governments and corporations to compete to be the first to report a given item for the first time in history.
However, in the pursuit of being first, it is important to be accurate.
The University of Connecticut was very likely the first organization to post that they lost Saturday night’s PapaJohns.com bowl game.
Unfortunately, they won. And the folks at the Huskies’ athletics site have yet to realize the error for more than an hour.
Check out these two screen captures, and pay close attention to the final scores:
Screen capture courtesy of Tim Bleasdale.
UPDATE: 6:19 p.m.: Since breaking this story, UConn has corrected the score.
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Comment by Jack — January 2nd, 2010 @ 6:11 pm
Before you blame UConn, did you look to see if they own UConnBowl.com?
The domain is registered to CSTV.com, a subsidiary of CBSSports.com.
And right below the java script that contains the erroneous score is a logo for CBSSports.com, and “© 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved.”
Comment by Tim Parry — January 3rd, 2010 @ 10:36 am