Column by Cedric Golden of the AAS

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I was really enjoying this article until I read the following Golden nugget: "the 6-foot-7 Boyette, who languished on the bench for the first half of last season before finding her stride." :rolleyes1:

Yep, dang medical staff kept her languishing on the bench while she recovered from leg surgery. Guess he should have asked Imani why she didn't get off the bench the first part of last season.

http://www.hookem.com/columns/golden-texas-women-will-soar-minus-the-turnovers/
 
The Statesman - phooey. Let me tell you the "last straws" that caused me to cancel our many, many year subscription to the Statesman. Papers are in decline and I hate that. The paper got thinner. The sections became merged. The final straw was one year, and it was a series with Texas Tech. Tech played in Austin and as I was reading the recap of the game, I started questioning the writing. The "tilt" of the article was odd. It focused a lot on the actions of the Tech players and how they were valiantly fighting to the end and so forth. I had to stop and look up at the byline. I realized that the Statesman had purchased the writeup from the Lubbock paper! In other words, the Statesman was too lazy or too poor to have someone actually cover the game in Austin! So, they subcontracted out the game summation! And then, as expected, they didn't send a reporter to Lubbock. They just purchased the game summation from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and pasted it in "our" paper.

I canceled the paper later that year and they never even asked "why"?

I guess Golden just looked at last year's stats and never dug deeper. He rarely wrote about women's basketball, so I guess he has to multi-task these days. Facts be darned!
 
I never read Golden or Bohls, unless something is pointed out by someone else. A friend of mine told me about the Brianna thing before I read the Bohls article. Neither one of them can write a whole article about ANY Texas sports team without having a negative tone at some point.
 
I complained to the sports editor last Wed when the women were playing TCU and the men were playing West VA. The sports page had a HUGE color photo of the men on the front page of the sports section and a long story that continued on another page. The women's story about going to TCU was on page 3 and they did include a picture, but no story. It was just the stock info on wins/losses/conference standing and probable starters. I emailed the sports editor and complained about all the space given to the UNRANKED MEN as opposed to the tiny amount of space and information of the SIXTH ranked Texas women. I called it gender bias at its finest. Of course I didn't get a response. BUT if you look at the AAS sports coverage of the two teams on Saturday as they readied to play Oklahoma and Kansas, the coverage of the two teams was EXACTLY EQUAL. It was hilarious, because it looked like someone counted words and made sure the coverage of the upcoming games was exactly the same. Even on the front page of the sports section, the mens/womens story was side by side and then if you continued reading on page 3, the women's story was on the top half of the page and the men's on the bottom half of the page, same size picture for both. It was probably just a coincidence but it sure was funny and gratifying to me after I had complained on Wednesday.
 
Rexy said:
I complained to the sports editor last Wed when the women were playing TCU and the men were playing West VA. The sports page had a HUGE color photo of the men on the front page of the sports section and a long story that continued on another page. The women's story about going to TCU was on page 3 and they did include a picture, but no story. It was just the stock info on wins/losses/conference standing and probable starters. I emailed the sports editor and complained about all the space given to the UNRANKED MEN as opposed to the tiny amount of space and information of the SIXTH ranked Texas women. I called it gender bias at its finest. Of course I didn't get a response. BUT if you look at the AAS sports coverage of the two teams on Saturday as they readied to play Oklahoma and Kansas, the coverage of the two teams was EXACTLY EQUAL. It was hilarious, because it looked like someone counted words and made sure the coverage of the upcoming games was exactly the same. Even on the front page of the sports section, the mens/womens story was side by side and then if you continued reading on page 3, the women's story was on the top half of the page and the men's on the bottom half of the page, same size picture for both. It was probably just a coincidence but it sure was funny and gratifying to me after I had complained on Wednesday.
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You never know, "working the refs" a little might have paid dividends. Good for you & thanks!
 
Rexy said:
I complained to the sports editor last Wed when the women were playing TCU and the men were playing West VA. The sports page had a HUGE color photo of the men on the front page of the sports section and a long story that continued on another page. The women's story about going to TCU was on page 3 and they did include a picture, but no story. It was just the stock info on wins/losses/conference standing and probable starters. I emailed the sports editor and complained about all the space given to the UNRANKED MEN as opposed to the tiny amount of space and information of the SIXTH ranked Texas women. I called it gender bias at its finest. Of course I didn't get a response. BUT if you look at the AAS sports coverage of the two teams on Saturday as they readied to play Oklahoma and Kansas, the coverage of the two teams was EXACTLY EQUAL. It was hilarious, because it looked like someone counted words and made sure the coverage of the upcoming games was exactly the same. Even on the front page of the sports section, the mens/womens story was side by side and then if you continued reading on page 3, the women's story was on the top half of the page and the men's on the bottom half of the page, same size picture for both. It was probably just a coincidence but it sure was funny and gratifying to me after I had complained on Wednesday.
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Can I hire you to argue my property taxes? :smile1:
 
racerx5908 said:
The Statesman - phooey. Let me tell you the "last straws" that caused me to cancel our many, many year subscription to the Statesman. Papers are in decline and I hate that. The paper got thinner. The sections became merged. The final straw was one year, and it was a series with Texas Tech. Tech played in Austin and as I was reading the recap of the game, I started questioning the writing. The "tilt" of the article was odd. It focused a lot on the actions of the Tech players and how they were valiantly fighting to the end and so forth. I had to stop and look up at the byline. I realized that the Statesman had purchased the writeup from the Lubbock paper! In other words, the Statesman was too lazy or too poor to have someone actually cover the game in Austin! So, they subcontracted out the game summation! And then, as expected, they didn't send a reporter to Lubbock. They just purchased the game summation from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and pasted it in "our" paper.

I canceled the paper later that year and they never even asked "why"?

I guess Golden just looked at last year's stats and never dug deeper. He rarely wrote about women's basketball, so I guess he has to multi-task these days. Facts be darned!
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What am I missing? I thought Golden's article was pretty good and some nice "p.r." for the team. What did everyone hate about it?
 
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