Saturday, June 3, 2017

Sea Change


Something’s afoot with press coverage of the WNBA Chicago Sky—you can actually find it.  Yesterday, I read a 10-paragraph story in the Tribune about the Sky-Phoenix Mercury game.  Ten paragraphs, and a box score to boot.  It would behoove the Sky to play better than 1-6.

With its perpetual shoestring budget, the Sun-Times is still going with the 50 words or less approach to the Sky, although it did include a box score.  And I’ve actually seen highlights on the nightly sports.  Alas, the pro-softball Bandits are nowhere to be seen.  They opened their season at home two days ago with a 3-2 win over the Akron Racers, not that either Chicago newspaper cared.  I’m guessing none of the TV stations did, either.

Wouldn’t it be something if a daily paper took the plunge and assigned a beat reporter to cover one or both of the women’s teams?  Act like something matters, and it will, or should.

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