Did I miss something this morning when perusing the Enquirer? No boxscore or anything on this game.

There was barely anything about anything in there.

Did I miss something this morning when perusing the Enquirer? No boxscore or anything on this game.

 

Q I agree I ran outside in a downpour Just to find out the Enquirer only covered a third of the games

Did Matt Wilson play qb for CC?

 

Yes

Q I agree I ran outside in a downpour Just to find out the Enquirer only covered a third of the games

Very sad statement on our print media. The page header said Kentucky High School Sports and was mostly filled with Ohio scores! Where did the days of all the scores printed across the top of front page of the paper go? Still miss the Ky Post!

Q I agree I ran outside in a downpour Just to find out the Enquirer only covered a third of the games

 

I heard since the Enquirer comes out of Columbus scores and info are due no later than 10 p.m.

I heard since the Enquirer comes out of Columbus scores and info are due no later than 10 p.m.

 

Correct

Very sad statement on our print media. The page header said Kentucky High School Sports and was mostly filled with Ohio scores! Where did the days of all the scores printed across the top of front page of the paper go? Still miss the Ky Post!

 

Ahhhh the days of a High School kid taking center stage on the ole NKY Post paper was as special as it would get when you are a 17 yr old teenager playing your big rival game.

 

Big game of the previous nite would paste a large pic of a certain play of the game right in the middle of the front page and then you would rip right through the garbage between it and the sports section to get all the details.

 

The days of guys like Dan and Don Weber, Tom Groeschen, Terry Boemker and others are long, long gone, we lost a great generation of really good sports writers that we will never see again imo.

A part of HS football in NKY died when the NKY Post died.

 

Now we have BGP and we can write our own take of the games:thumb:

Ahhhh the days of a High School kid taking center stage on the ole NKY Post paper was as special as it would get when you are a 17 yr old teenager playing your big rival game.

 

Big game of the previous nite would paste a large pic of a certain play of the game right in the middle of the front page and then you would rip right through the garbage between it and the sports section to get all the details.

 

The days of guys like Dan and Don Weber, Tom Groeschen, Terry Boemker and others are long, long gone, we lost a great generation of really good sports writers that we will never see again imo.

A part of HS football in NKY died when the NKY Post died.

 

Now we have BGP and we can write our own take of the games:thumb:

 

 

Ahhhhh- The good ole days! I do miss the Post! Much better than the Enquirer!

No need to call out a kid for dropping balls. Nobody mentioned names last night when a certain Sr Receiver dropped a couple. JMO

 

The only certain Sr receiver you could be referring to has more varsity receptions than anyone save Turner over last season and into this one, dropping precious few and snagging quite a few uncatchable balls along the way. Yet seems like a way was found to call out a specific player afterall (no name or number, but there's only so many plays in a game). I agree with the lesson 100 percent, but aren't you preaching one thing, and doing another? And it wasn't a couple, it was one. JMO

Ahhhh the days of a High School kid taking center stage on the ole NKY Post paper was as special as it would get when you are a 17 yr old teenager playing your big rival game.

 

Big game of the previous nite would paste a large pic of a certain play of the game right in the middle of the front page and then you would rip right through the garbage between it and the sports section to get all the details.

 

The days of guys like Dan and Don Weber, Tom Groeschen, Terry Boemker and others are long, long gone, we lost a great generation of really good sports writers that we will never see again imo.

A part of HS football in NKY died when the NKY Post died.

 

Now we have BGP and we can write our own take of the games:thumb:

 

If those guys were in the biz today we would still have the same complaint.

No complaining here...

 

Heck if I want a good read now, I go to Mike Grahmn for his take on the games. He can write circles around what is being published in the Enquirer these days, which is....Nuttin Honey

The only certain Sr receiver you could be referring to has more varsity receptions than anyone save Turner over last season and into this one, dropping precious few and snagging quite a few uncatchable balls along the way. Yet seems like a way was found to call out a specific player afterall (no name or number, but there's only so many plays in a game). I agree with the lesson 100 percent, but aren't you preaching one thing, and doing another? And it wasn't a couple, it was one. JMO

 

What?

Ahhhh the days of a High School kid taking center stage on the ole NKY Post paper was as special as it would get when you are a 17 yr old teenager playing your big rival game.

 

Big game of the previous nite would paste a large pic of a certain play of the game right in the middle of the front page and then you would rip right through the garbage between it and the sports section to get all the details.

 

The days of guys like Dan and Don Weber, Tom Groeschen, Terry Boemker and others are long, long gone, we lost a great generation of really good sports writers that we will never see again imo.

A part of HS football in NKY died when the NKY Post died.

 

Now we have BGP and we can write our own take of the games:thumb:

 

I can still remember sitting in our minivan on Saturday morning driving to my JR High League game and reading all of the recaps thinking, "I want my name in the paper." It was soecial.

Hello lottoman. Thanks for pointing this out. I've made the change to the story.

 

Fort Thomas Sports: Highlands hammers Campbell County, 50-8

Hello everyone,

 

I generally do not make comments on here and what I'm about to say is not about self-promotion. I just feel like people need to know what's going on in the newspaper industry. As someone who was part of it for 14 years, I feel bad for everyone involved from the readers to the reporters who put in a lot of hours to make it happen. I've covered games for newspapers in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas.

I thought the Enquirer was printed in Louisville, but I guess it is Columbus. The Enquirer is owned by Gannett, one of the largest newspaper chains in the United States. Newspaper corporations strive to maintain a certain profit level. When there is a threat to that, the corporations make cuts. Those cuts often come in the form of lost jobs leading to inferior products. Gannett is the worst at this. On top of that, Ganett requires its employees to take one-week furloughs once a year. A friend of mine is an Assistant Sports Editor there.

On top of that, Gannett's newspaper printing places are unionized. They won't print anything after a certain time. I've been told that time is 1 a.m. Thus, deadlines are 10 to 10:30 a.m. also equaling a more sub-standard product.

I used to be the sports editor at the Commonwealth Journal in Somerset. Our unofficial deadline between August, 2001 to August, 2003 was early in the morning even though we were supposed to be a morning paper. Now, it's 11:30 p.m. It's tough to cover 7:30 p.m. games, write the stories, edit the copy and do layout. So, the current sports editor does not even go to games. He shoots them then goes back to the office to do layout. As a journalism major, I will say that's not why you do this.

The best thing I like about writing for a web site is I do not have a limit on how much I can write. It was about 500 words with my last part-time job in Gallatin (Tennessee). I can do more interviews and go more in-depth with what I'm doing now.

But I still feel bad for the schools that are not getting the coverage that I'm able to provide Highlands and NewCath. I graduated from Parkway High School in the western Ohio town of Rockford (near Lima) in 1996. We'd complain about the local newspaper bashing out football and basketball teams (neither were very good). But I guess we were spoiled.

I hope this answers some questions about the newspaper industry. Otherwise, please feel free to ask any questions.