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> Although I respect Bob's vast reservoir of knowledge when it comes to
college
> hockey (especially UNH), I have to disagree re: the Globe's coverage.
In
> reality it is quite abysmal. Bob, please save the college hockey preview
that
> appeared in the Globe and then compare it with what they will give you
for
> college basketball preview (especially when it comes to the national scene
).
You are both right, actually. The Globe "shorts" college hockey compared to
pituitary-ball, but it gives more coverage than most papers (compare the
Albany and Providence papers for instance).
> My bottom line answer is bias. The Globe's editors and writers are
predisposed
> to certain sports - pro sports, big time (i.e) football and basketball)
college
> sports and then, if they consider then at all, "small" college sports, in
this
> order - football, basketball, then hockey.
Actually, I think the real problem with the Globe is that it is terribly
written. The reporters are constantly making enormous mistakes, and also
making nonsensical statements which just a couple weeks on a list like this
would disabuse them from. Stylistically, they would never make it out of a
freshman writing seminar at a decent school.
The Globe trumpets itself as a well-written sports section, and indeed it
wins awards, but those are generally for the sort of soft stories that
involve the general public for a brief instant than the day to day work of
good beat coverage. Happily, there are vastly superior resources out there
for information, this being one of them.
-- Greg
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