College hockey is covered extremely well by the Boston media. Both
the Globe (whose sports section is otherwise perhaps the worst in the
country) and the Herald (the local clone of the NY Post) run regular
boxes for ECAC and HE games, have articles about the four Div. I
teams in the immediate area, and just generally take the sport
seriously. Where else in the country do both major dailies actually
put college hockey on the front page every once in a while?
 
I grew up with the NYC papers and bloids, and saw perhaps three
articles on college hockey in 18 years. Then a few years ago, the NY
Times started running a weekly (Thursdays) column by someone named
Wallace Williams Wallace III or something, which, to paraphrase
the Blues Brothers, "had both kinds: Harvard _and_ Yale". (But this is
the Times we're talking about. And to be fair, I think it might have
mentioned Princeton, once.)
 
Locally, the Ithaca Journal does relatively accurate game reports and
relatively inaccurate boxes for all Cornell games; the Cornell Daily
Sun hypes the games in its Friday edition to try to bring out the
fans and does a cheesy Garden Party supplement when the team makes
the ECAC final four; the Ithaca Times has a feature article every
other week by our own Arthur Mintz which has for years been
required reading over an Oliver's lunch a few hours before game-time.
 
Greg
Somerville, MA
Let's Go Red!