About the Boston Globe not publicizing a BU-UMaine game to spite Maine: My family and I went down to Boston a number of years ago (the year BC was playing in Harvard's rink while Conte was being built) to see a Maine-BC game (Maine beat BC 3-2 incidently, for those of you who can remember back that far). Back at the hotel that night we eagerly awaited a recap of the score on the local TV news. As I recall there were also 2 other HE games being played that night in Boston (I think BU and Northeastern). Well, they had an extended sports segment, lasting almost 5 minutes. They reported on everything from pro hockey and basketball to the local dog show, but no college hockey. The next day the globe had the obligatory 1 paragraph on each of the games, with absolutely no color at all. You have to understand that the Black Bears get blanket coverage in the newsmedia in Northern Maine. It's obvious why - Competition (or the lack of it). Down through the years those of us in it for the long haul have come to understand how the Boston media works (and I don't mean Fitzgerald's unfortunate reporting during the Maine fiasco last year). As one of the posters commented, it's just what sells newspapers. In fact, if I was the sports editor and one of my writers gave excessive space to a college hockey game, there'd better be a good reason why. Larry Latour UMaine (I love Maine-BU hockey games. They remind me of the old BC-Maine slugfests of a few years ago. There aren't any winners. There are just teams slightly ahead at the end of each game)