Ever wonder why some games aren’t reported in the newspaper? Joe fan gets up Saturday, picks up his paper and goes, ‘Huh? I was at that game, it was pretty big, from what I remember. How can the Post not have a summary?’
Back in the day–not too long ago, mind you–the Post used to pay correspondents to cover all games–just to get the summary and leaders. Alas, budget constraints have caused us to abandon that practice. So we did the most logical thing: We wrote letters to all the coaches and athletic directors to have their statisticians or assistants to call in the result of their games so we can get it reported. We only have two or three (at best) writers trying to cover 47 teams and we can’t do it all.
Unfortunately, not everybody wants to help get their games into the paper. In short, people get left out, even the winners. For whatever reason, a lot of people don’t like to call their games in. They see it as a chore. I don’t understand, but hey, that’s their perogative.
If you don’t call, don’t ask us why we don’t write about your team.
We need the info. No info? No coverage.
Thanks.
Sean
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