Always disappointing

• huntergreen

  In central Ohio, there were 7 sectional tournaments in the area featuring all central district wrestlers. This morning in the Columbus Dispatch, there were ZERO articles and ZERO pictures of any of these tournaments.
  
  There was however a page about Asian Carp, an article (and picture)about the UK/Vanderbilt game, Knicks vs. Thunder coverage, and 2 articles about CURLING!
  
  This drives me absolutely crazy. I know I should just stop complaining, but I don't think us wrestling fans ask for too much. I hope papers around the state did a much better job than this.
• ontheline

  

  Same observation, same feeling of frustration!
• 222

  It's just the columbus dispatch, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? For you older fans out there, don't you miss the old CITIZEN JOURNAL? Those were the days!
• wingman87th

  The Dis-grace! Always been pathetic. Even looked for a mention of the upcoming sectionals, and all that was ever mentioned was I think Div. 3 at Cardington top seeds. What an absolute Joke! I see more about Tennis and Golf in the Dispatch than wrestling. Are there 1000 people at a high school tennis match, or golf tourney watching? I've never seen it. Cmon Dispatch wake the heck up!
• cruiser_96

  

  How unfortunate that I was elated to see results! I've been so controlled by the Dispatch, that now, any mention is a good day.
  
  Reminds me of a quote I once read... "The great thing about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being proven right or pleasantly surprised!"
• 222

  I guess the columbus dispatch only covers the sports where they play with BALLS!!
• cruiser_96

  

  Are you saying they are going to do a cover story on... I'd love to say Brian Nicola here, but he's the man. Tough to joke about him after I just recently slighted his team a spot at Westland.
  
  Well done, Orange. The old cruiser would have typed it anyway. But this is the new cruiser.
• huntergreen

  Well, I thought I had to say something. I think we should whine as much as possible and see what happens. You can leave a comment on their website here: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/e-mail-stein.html
  
  And you can e-mail them at [email protected]
  
  And lets keep it clean cruiser!!!!!!
• hizzmuther

  Well... as long as we're slamming on the Dispatch...
  
  Give them their props... they do a nice job of including things in the blog and of reporting results if someone sends the data to them. The guy that keeps the blog going did a nice job of adding results from the G once he knew it included a central Ohio Team. He also did a couple of nice wrestling reports -- we're making headway.
  
  Here is the All-City list, in the Dispatch blog now.
  
  Wrestling: All-City League
  Thomas Johnson, Derrick Neimeister and Jason Russell (West); Adam Bray (Northland); Filandus Boyd, Chad Jones, Rhallane Reese, Roseandier White-Jackson and Patrick Hickey (Marion-Franklin); Tien Trinh and Louis Ford Jr. (Brookhaven); Joel Waits and Shqiprim Hasnai (Centennial); Benjamin Leach (Whetstone).
  
  Congrats to those guys, especially Neimeister, Russell, and Boyd. I'm glad that was in the Dispatch, because I didn't see it on the city league site.
  
  Now... don't complain on the Huddles, complain to the Dispatch. Send an Email to Rob Oller (ok... let's pick on one guy... let him get all of the emails... get someone's attention. I just picked him because he's been in sports at the Dispatch for years... and I went to high school with him). Email address is [email protected]. Make some suggestions -- I think the Plain Dealer runs a special high school sports section once or twice a week to specifically feature the kids. Results, sports stories, some written by the kids, color photos, etc. It might not be the PD, but it was some major urban paper. Seems to me this could be a good way to go -- sell a little extra advertising to cover the costs of the extra sections or pages, but only on limited days.
  
  Also, I have to give props to the local papers. This Week, SNP, every community has at least one weekly paper. These weeklies have done a good job of covering wrestling and including pictures. I know the Hilliard papers have done well, and I remember somebody on the Huddles talking about an article in the Gahanna paper. Shop their advertisers and tell them why you're shopping there. The advertisers keep our local papers in print.
  
  I come from a small town in an area that's all small towns. I have been told that the local daily paper there did a great job of covering the local sectional and results for the teams that had to travel. But they don't have OSU sports to cover and there are way fewer high schools in the area. Lack of media coverage of high school sports is the disadvantage of living in a major metropolitan area.
• wingman87th

  hizzmuther wrote: Well... as long as we're slamming on the Dispatch...
  
  Give them their props... they do a nice job of including things in the blog and of reporting results if someone sends the data to them. The guy that keeps the blog going did a nice job of adding results from the G once he knew it included a central Ohio Team. He also did a couple of nice wrestling reports -- we're making headway.
  
  Here is the All-City list, in the Dispatch blog now.
  
  Wrestling: All-City League
  Thomas Johnson, Derrick Neimeister and Jason Russell (West); Adam Bray (Northland); Filandus Boyd, Chad Jones, Rhallane Reese, Roseandier White-Jackson and Patrick Hickey (Marion-Franklin); Tien Trinh and Louis Ford Jr. (Brookhaven); Joel Waits and Shqiprim Hasnai (Centennial); Benjamin Leach (Whetstone).
  
  Congrats to those guys, especially Neimeister, Russell, and Boyd. I'm glad that was in the Dispatch, because I didn't see it on the city league site.
  
  Now... don't complain on the Huddles, complain to the Dispatch. Send an Email to Rob Oller (ok... let's pick on one guy... let him get all of the emails... get someone's attention. I just picked him because he's been in sports at the Dispatch for years... and I went to high school with him). Email address is [email protected]. Make some suggestions -- I think the Plain Dealer runs a special high school sports section once or twice a week to specifically feature the kids. Results, sports stories, some written by the kids, color photos, etc. It might not be the PD, but it was some major urban paper. Seems to me this could be a good way to go -- sell a little extra advertising to cover the costs of the extra sections or pages, but only on limited days.
  
  Also, I have to give props to the local papers. This Week, SNP, every community has at least one weekly paper. These weeklies have done a good job of covering wrestling and including pictures. I know the Hilliard papers have done well, and I remember somebody on the Huddles talking about an article in the Gahanna paper. Shop their advertisers and tell them why you're shopping there. The advertisers keep our local papers in print.
  
  I come from a small town in an area that's all small towns. I have been told that the local daily paper there did a great job of covering the local sectional and results for the teams that had to travel. But they don't have OSU sports to cover and there are way fewer high schools in the area. Lack of media coverage of high school sports is the disadvantage of living in a major metropolitan area.

  Are you on the payroll at the disgrace?
• hizzmuther

  Nope... no relationship at all, except going to high school with one of the sports editors. Now if that's not a power position, I don't know what is! Email him. Bug him... bug the person. Make suggestions. It has to be cost effective for them to cover high school sports (don't they know how many copies of the paper we buy if our kids name is in there!). I would like to see the Dispatch do a better job with ALL high school sports, but I am also very grateful to the Hilliard local weeklies this year for the great pictures they have taken of my wrestler.
• Bitterrunner-up

  I'm shocked that so many of you read the Dispatch that you would know whether or not it covers high school wrestling. I have one friend who reads the Dispatch every morning, and has since the day I met him and to this day I don't know why. I think I buy one Dispatch a year, the Friday or Saturday of the State Tourny. You know, the one with a story on the State Tounrament and some local interest stuff and the All District team. Other then that, you can get your news other places for free, and with much better writing. There's just no reason to buy the Columbus Dispatch. And to be honest, their coverage (or lack thereof) of high school wrestling isn't high on my list of reasons it's a bad paper.
• USMCdevil05

  

  cruiser_96 wrote: Are you saying they are going to do a cover story on... I'd love to say Brian Nicola here, but he's the man. Tough to joke about him after I just recently slighted his team a spot at Westland.
  
  Well done, Orange. The old cruiser would have typed it anyway. But this is the new cruiser.

  That is funny! HAHA!
  
  As far as the sports coverage, I agree with everyone. The only week the dispatch will cover wrestling with a whole page is the state tournament! That is BS! Atleast cover the 3 weeks that these kids work their butts off for a whole year! Show them some love! We are the toughest wrestling state just so ya know dispatch! I could understand why basketball would get some coverage if we were in dang gone North Carolina! We can complain and complain, but I think nothing will come of it! I hate to say it but that is how I feel!
• CoachB63

  Its more a sign that Newspapers big and small just don't get
  it as far as Sports is concerned, the folks that are interested
  in PRO, and College sports have seen the games on Sports Center,
  the local news, Radio every 30 mins, so by the time the Morning
  News paper has come out pretty much everything in it is Old news
  if they would wake up and realize they should devote the amount
  of space they give the big boys to the local sports the high school level,
  even JR high, that is what would drive sales, every Mom wants pics
  of her boy getting his hand raised.
• romulus

  Actually last year there was very little coverage for sectionals but district and state coverage was great.
• cruiser_96

  

  romulus: I think that is the week that bitter was commenting on. It usually doesn't happen until the Thursday before the District tournament... Maybe the Sunday after. But that week leading up to the state tournament, and the three days of usually has some excellent locker room stuff. Positive locker room stuck - not the trash talking sort. Good pictures, nice articles... even a solid interview with a quote or two.