At 12:45 AM 12/11/94 -0500, Patrick L. Blake wrote:
 
>I bought the paper today and was hoping to see something relating to the
>weekend games of Dec. 3+4 with BU at UMaine. There was nothing! The only
>mention was that of a score of the Friday night game. Of course, there were
>     recaps of many other Hockey East matchups from Friday night, but
>absolutely NO mention of BU and UMaine. I know this is not normal, and was
>wondering if anyone on hockey-l might be able to provide me with a clue as to
>why this is.
>
>I wonder if the lack of coverage was due to BU's performance or merely the
>Boston area media's hatred toward UMaine.
>
 
Look... this is getting ridiculous. I know I'm responding to more than Mr.
Blake's comments here, but the number of messages bashing other HE schools
and Boston area media for a supposed bias against Maine are getting
downright silly and I'd like to ask people to just cut it out, please.
 
Like any other newspaper, when it comes to marginal sports news like
college hockey, the Globe will basically look at two criteria: 1) proximity
2) newsworthiness (which in this case equals # of wins).
 
To suggest that the Globe would intentionally ignore the results of BU
games JUST to spite Maine is frankly ridiculous. I guarantee you, Mr.
Blake, nobody there is expending that amount of effort thinking about it.
 
David M. Josselyn
Merrimack College '93
Syracuse University '94?