-- [ From: [log in to unmask] * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > 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 -- ******************************************************************* ***** Greg R. Berge ***** **** [log in to unmask] **** *** http://www.spiritone.com/~kworkman *** ** "You can never skate on the same pond twice" ** * * HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.