Regionrat1 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I can't clearly understand how da Times has such little respect for da worlds greatest sport. Bein da finest area in da state dat paper just plain ole blows. How about a picture ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cewrestlingfan Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Maybe what we need are more wrestlers to become sports writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regionfan#1 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Or maybe da rat could be designated as the region writer for region wrestling on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cewrestlingfan Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 We all always love to hear what the ole rat has to say ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regionfan#1 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I vote yay!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I can't clearly understand how da Times has such little respect for da worlds greatest sport. Bein da finest area in da state dat paper just plain ole blows. How about a picture ? After reading Karlhungus's review, maybe the Times ahould call and offer him a position!!!! Too bad his article was not in the Times, or any other newspaper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbarnett Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I saw Brian Waddle from The Times at the meet, and he is definately a good friend and fan to the wrestling community. Unfortunately, he isn't in charge of deciding how much press we get. Kudos to Ducky Waddle, though.... he definately does his part to promote the sport in the press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-train Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 i agree with you barnett. waddle does what he can. as good as karlhungus' article was, the times would tell him to condense it to 400 words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontherise219 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Here are some pictures from the post. http://yourseason.suntimes.com/indiana/1330332,121308traicoffwrestgal.photogallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarlHungus Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I can't clearly understand how da Times has such little respect for da worlds greatest sport. Bein da finest area in da state dat paper just plain ole blows. How about a picture ? After reading Karlhungus's review, maybe the Times ahould call and offer him a position!!!! Too bad his article was not in the Times, or any other newspaper! I thought it might be a bit long but I figured I was writing to a captive audience on this site. The thing of it is with the Traicoff, one can only watch about 10-20% of the great wrestling and I felt like I probably missed many more big matches on the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontherise219 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 KarlHungus is only 1 man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestling Mole Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Perhaps the old Mole can do some diggin' around and work on those folks at the Times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgfan Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 shudders.. even the girl's basketball gets more coverage in da times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TipTheScales Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Don't feel too bad. Mishawaka won the state title last year and on the same night South Bend Washington Girls Basketball won the semi-state. SB Wash got the majority of the front page. BTW, the Times does suck at promoting the sport. Rarely does it ever have wrestling on the front sports page, at least that was the case when I lived in the Region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trapjaw Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 This topic seems to come up every year. There seems to be so many people that get upset about basketball getting more coverage, blah blah blah Secret: Newspapers are in the business of selling papers!! There is not that large of an audience for high school wrestling. I'm sure they have people doing research on what people want to read about, and what will ultimately sell more papers, and in turn get more advertising dollars. In terms of HOW they cover the sport, Its a little unreasonable to think that the writers should all be experts on the sport, I think we should be happy with what is written. All that said, my paper, the Hammond Times does a terrific job. Keep it up Waddle!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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