Excellence in Sports Journalism

[Parrot Head]

Several of us on the board were fortunate enough to have selected a fine undergraduate major such as journalism or communications which gave us the chance to develop a keen ability to use whom correctly and perhaps even the opportunity to sit in the same room as the Police Beat editor.

Even if you didn't make that excellent choice in life (later followed by regret, angst, and, eventually, a more useful graduate degree), you can still probably appreciate this piece from the George Washington U. athletic department after the baseball team lost to UVa.

Strong Pitching By GW Not Enough In 2-0 Loss To No. 1 Virginia

There's a slightly buried lede in there, so keep reading.

[Parrot Head]

Here's a piece from the Daily Tarheel this week showing Roy's Boys hooping it up on campus with the rest of the students.

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[New Mexican Disaster]

There's a slightly buried lede in there, so keep reading.

Hilarious.

[falafel]

I don't get it.

[Clark Addison]

That's great. I wonder if the headline in the Brooklyn paper on October 9, 1956 was


Strong Pitching By Dodgers Not Enough In 2-0 Loss To Yankees

[LiveCoug]

Haha...


"Oh, and by the way....."

[Jeff Lebowski]

Almost missed that line. Very funny.

[wuapinmon]

April 23, 1999

In a tough game, aside from the third inning, the Dodgers were able to hold the Cardinals to only one run. The Dodgers capitalized on old-fashioned run production, accumulating five runs over the course of the game, but a host of errors in the third cost them. The Cardinals were buoyed by 3B Fernando Tatis' two homeruns (8 RBIs total) in the 3rd that led to an eventual 12-5 loss.

[Surfah]

I think many CUFers are capable of such writing. In fact, I read similar examples daily.

[CJF]

I think many CUFers are capable of such writing. In fact, I read similar examples daily.

That could have been SU writing about the future of Utah basketball while compaired to the just finished BYU season.

[Top Ute]

Several of us on the board were fortunate enough to have selected a fine undergraduate major such as journalism or communications which gave us the chance to develop a keen ability to use whom correctly and perhaps even the opportunity to sit in the same room as the Police Beat editor.

Even if you didn't make that excellent choice in life (later followed by regret, angst, and, eventually, a more useful graduate degree), you can still probably appreciate this piece from the George Washington U. athletic department after the baseball team lost to UVa.

Strong Pitching By GW Not Enough In 2-0 Loss To No. 1 Virginia

There's a slightly buried lede in there, so keep reading.

College SIDs are funny like that. You can't look at a BYU-Utah release from BYU that ended with a Utah victory without some pretty glaring holes (last year's game, upon quickie review, didn't even mention Brandon Burton). The inverted pyramid style of writing, it is not.

Utah just uses AP gamers on its site, and chops the hell out of them for crushing losses -- the 2006 BYU loss has all but four paragraphs dedicated to it, although the 2007/2009 releases are slightly longer.

[Viking]

That could have been SU writing about the future of Utah basketball while compaired to the just finished BYU season.

SU would never call it a perfect game. He'd just say no GW players got a chance to get on base but they anxiously await the next game to show off the hitting and base running prowess

He might also blame the umpires. Or say that he doesn't care about the piddly assed league.

One of those three, maybe all

[Parrot Head]

This lead paragraph is a Pulitzer worthy from the Mets' beat writer at the Daily News.


Mets are officially in last place in National League after losing to lowly Astros at Citi Field