Sorry, Dan. But as much as we love Maine hockey, Maine is still a high
school basketball state. The Bangor Auditorium and Augusta Civic Center
were full every night. It's not just the BDN. Every paper in the state
makes high school basketball number one during tourney time. As they
should. Find something else to knit-pick.

Dan Doucette wrote:

>Our State University hockey team is on a "March" to the post-season, likely
>will be # 2 in the nation this week, yet Larry Mahoney's paper buries his
>story on the first Maine-Providence game deep in the Weekend edition in
>favor of stories on HS hoops teams, some of which seemingly have smaller
>school enrollment than the number of people standing in line for the men's
>room between periods at the Alfond...
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>Larry does a great job covering the Black Bears, but his employers are
>leaving him out to dry.  He ought to send in a mini-story any time they
>banish his report deep inside the sports page during Tournament Time.  Maybe
>he could be convinced to do a more in-depth hockey column on-line under the
>WZON pages, somewhat in a reverse of what Gary Thorne does in the BDN...
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>AD Nero must also be discouraged by the fascination with Tournament Time in
>the local media.  I know on WABI it's better because of their own coverage,
>but the Ch. 2/6 combo is generally pathetic when it comes to covering Our
>State University...
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>It will even be worse this coming weekend when Maine travels to Lowell and
>there are more HS hoops to contend with.
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>Good luck to those without Internet connections and in the radio void south
>of Waterville trying to get even the briefest game-night summary on the
>games this coming weekend...
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>Fill the FMH buses I say and make the Tsongas into Alfond South, because if
>you really want to know what happened in both games, I'm afraid you'll have
>to see for yourself in person.
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