DblT81
01-17-2002, 12:14 PM
Sometimes, I just want to sing that theme song from the old Jefferson's sitcom, We're movin' on up.... Coverage of women's basketball just creeps on up the ladders of both quantity and quality.
The Dallas Morning News made a big step when they assigned Tracy Schultz and gave her columnist status to write about wcbb. She covers the B12 more than most other conferences and is doing a great job. Of course she didn't have to do much to be an improvement over her predecessor, Bart Hubbich (sp?). He was either low man on the totem pole to get that assignment or he was being punished by the DMN, at least he wrote about wcbb like it was punishment to have to do so.
Even the DMN reporter assigned to cover Tech sports from Lubbock, Brian Davis, is writing original pieces on the women's games instead of rehashing the AP reporter's story. Are Carter and Cash doing the same from College Station and Austin (asking because I haven't really watched for stories by them)?
The DMN primarily pays attention to the Oklahoma and Texas schools in the B12. I don't see the Houston Chronicle much but it doesn't seem like they do much original reporting for any schools other than UH and maybe Rice. Anybody comment about them?
I know the Denver Post often has articles about Colorado, do they also mention other B12 teams?
Anyway, I pleased with the improvement by the DMN over the past couple of years.
Oh yes, one last thing. Brian Davis began his story about the TT-BU game like this:
" Double Ts were everywhere Wednesday at the United Spirit Arena. Unfortunately for Kim Mulkey-Robertson, she's not much of a Texas Tech fan. Officials presented the Baylor coach with two technical fouls and an automatic ejection in the first half. "
I know that is painful for the Baylor fans, but I thought it was a rather clever intro for the story about the game.
The Dallas Morning News made a big step when they assigned Tracy Schultz and gave her columnist status to write about wcbb. She covers the B12 more than most other conferences and is doing a great job. Of course she didn't have to do much to be an improvement over her predecessor, Bart Hubbich (sp?). He was either low man on the totem pole to get that assignment or he was being punished by the DMN, at least he wrote about wcbb like it was punishment to have to do so.
Even the DMN reporter assigned to cover Tech sports from Lubbock, Brian Davis, is writing original pieces on the women's games instead of rehashing the AP reporter's story. Are Carter and Cash doing the same from College Station and Austin (asking because I haven't really watched for stories by them)?
The DMN primarily pays attention to the Oklahoma and Texas schools in the B12. I don't see the Houston Chronicle much but it doesn't seem like they do much original reporting for any schools other than UH and maybe Rice. Anybody comment about them?
I know the Denver Post often has articles about Colorado, do they also mention other B12 teams?
Anyway, I pleased with the improvement by the DMN over the past couple of years.
Oh yes, one last thing. Brian Davis began his story about the TT-BU game like this:
" Double Ts were everywhere Wednesday at the United Spirit Arena. Unfortunately for Kim Mulkey-Robertson, she's not much of a Texas Tech fan. Officials presented the Baylor coach with two technical fouls and an automatic ejection in the first half. "
I know that is painful for the Baylor fans, but I thought it was a rather clever intro for the story about the game.