How Low Can They Go?

Right now, the White Sox are like a bad accident that people can’t help but look at. Which explains why they keep getting end-of-season coverage, in the Tribune even. What I didn’t expect was who’d be bumped. The Cubs, yes, but Northwestern, too? The Wildcats lost to Miami of Ohio at home on Saturday. The game ended just before 10 o’clock, too late for the Tribune to print a story on Sunday. When the folks at Alden Global Capital got around to it on Monday, they went with a short AP story, buried on the back page of sports. Talk about callous. The same story ran in longer form on the web site, only it wasn’t identified as an AP piece. There were also stories on the Notre Dame and Northern Illinois games, both from the AP (I checked), both without AP attribution. Maybe the online Trib is too embarrassed to admit the paper can’t be bothered to send reporters to cover games. I know I’d be.