My apologies to those BU and UNH fans who were in town for Thursday's
championship game of the Sheraton-USAir tournament.  The Burlington Free
Press coverage of the championship game was an embarrassment to Vermonters.
 
Free Press staff writer Ted Ryan was allotted nearly one-third of Friday's
sports section front page and a portion of the second page to Thursday's
tournament coverage.  Only four sentences at the end of Ryan's second page
acknowledge the BU-UNH championship game even happened.  Ryan
characteristically carried on in parochial style, whining about the
officiating in UVM's consolation game.
 
The local media, particularly newspaper and radio, are hopelessly biased.
These are professionals, not students.  How widespread is this problem?
 
Charlie Masenas