Wrestling Scholar Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Just curious. How does you're local newspaper cover wrestling? Our local newspaper IMO does not cover it well. I wont mention the name of the establishment. We're lucky to get a box score. All they do is a few articles a year around state tournament time. Its all basketball, basketball, basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ds Dad Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Unfortunately we are in Indiana! Unless you have a former wrestler in the sports room, or maybe an amazing team, that is the normal coverage wrestlers will get. Our paper normally only puts in the paper what the coach sends to them, similar to the box score you spoke of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger.dad Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 The Elkhart Truth does a great job! KingsmenDad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Culp Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Columbia City's Post and Mail does a great job with wrestling. They also cover Churubusco and Whitko as much as they can as we are all in the same county. In fact one of the sports editors just left my classroom to get names for a picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 The Decatur Daily Democrat does an outstanding job also. They even had a nice article mentioning me last year before semi-state. page7.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornet Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I think the Frankfort Times has done a fantastic job recently with all of the county wrestling teams. Last year our County and Conference matches were "headliners".. On the other hand, in my opinion, the Lafayette J&C is horrible at covering wrestling. Just this past weekend there were 2 tournaments (Jeff and Harrison) that received little to no coverage that I saw. I actually purchased a paper on Sunday to get individual results and there were only a few box scores from Jeff, nothing I couldn't have pulled from this website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Spires Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I agree with charger.dad, etruth does very good. Every year they do a nice preview for the beginning of the season too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestling Scholar Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 Hornet, I agree on the Lafayette J&C. But there was tons of basketball coverage this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrq Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Kendallville Publishing Company has a Georgetown Masters graduate helping cover the area. So she better do a good job or her dad will chew her butt (: Y2CJ41 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookie78 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Kendallville Publishing Company has a Georgetown Masters graduate helping cover the area. So she better do a good job or her dad will chew her butt (: Amen to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown wrestler Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Scholar I agree. That is why I don't send our info in any more. Our local paper does a excellent job and loves wrestling so we have just stuck with that. It's a shame for you guys having such a great year and team with the addition of Hinkle and you still can't get the acknowledgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosgrove Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 yeah I read alot of bowling and basketball haahaaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleB Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ours does a decent job, but Tskin writes the articles 99% of time. There's perks though, a few years back i was the official correspondent w/ the paper so I got free passes and press passes into semi-state and state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon H Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Evansville does a decent job on results and rankings (sent in by schools) but lack the daily/weekly stories during the season. I noticed this summer they had just a snippet on Lee and Konrath winning Fargo. I nominate John Johnson as a volunteer contributor to Evansville Courier for weekly features! jwilly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millermom Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Rich Torres from The Noblesville Daily Times did an amazing job with his write up on the Noblesville vs Fishers meet. It was like reading my central Pennsylvania hometown paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach McCormick Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I just shared my discontent with our local newspaper's sports guy the other night. I certainly understand that budgets are tight and decisions have to be made to "sell newspapers", but there seems to be no "meat" in our local wrestling stories these days. Due to turnover rates of sports beat writers and an overall ignorance of our sport, they tend to want to write about "warm and fuzzy" stories like "brothers on the same team." Although this isn't necessarily a bad human interest story, they never seem to want to cover the X's and O's of our sport. Just as a sports writer in Delaware County starts to understand wrestling; that is about the time they take another job elsewhere and we get another newbie who has to be re-educated. Kudos to those sports writers and newspapers who still value and support wrestling at the high school and youth levels. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the sports of football and basketball... but my goodness... I can only take reading about "Smithville" beating "Jonesville" in basketball 51-22 so much. I enjoy reading something else on occasion about kids and teams from minor sports who are also having success. Coach McCormick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cauliflower Ear Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The Decatur Daily Democrat does an outstanding job also. They even had a nice article mentioning me last year before semi-state. Jim Hopkins of the paper has done very good of late covering all 3 county schools, and the 2 on radio last night did a impressive job of not being too bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomer Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Jeff Jones does a great job in the northeast area for kpc news. Does a good preview on the teams at the start of the season and keeps up on all the meets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never Quit Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The HC Sports Daily usually has good coverage for the Hamilton County area. Unfortunately some coaches don't know how to take their lumps with a young and inexperienced team and badmouth them in interviews. I think some parents should be asking for an apology. http://hcsportsdaily.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=46&ArticleID=43529 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudden death 7 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I was there that night and coach knotts loves those kids and his program. He calls it like he sees it and if that offends the more sensitive readers out there then so be it. My father never praised me when I made mistakes and I'm a better man for it. SPEAK YOUR MIND AMERICA AND QUIT BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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