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Regarding sports news, major collegiate and all professional sports are doing fine. Small collegiate and high school sports suffer without local media coverage.

Regarding sports news, major collegiate and all professional sports are doing fine. Small collegiate and high school sports suffer without local media coverage. ESPN covers high school sports very, very selectively. The days of a mom clipping out the high school soccer coverage of her daughter or son are coming to and end.

marcolussetti 8y ago
Is that necessarily a bad thing though? It would seem to me (non-American) that high school sports news would at most of interest to the parents of those playing, so it doesn't seem feasible for it to obtain wide coverage. Thinking back to my hometown's newspaper, I don't think it ever covered high school sports, only professional sports.
- stordoff 8y ago
  I plays sports through the UK equivalent of high school, and it never occurred to me that it would get any kind of media coverage. Even village-level sports rarely got more than a passing mention (if that) in the local paper. If that is currently happening in America, it doesn't seem like a huge loss.
  - Tomte 8y ago
    Where I'm living the local newspaper covers sports (mostly soccer and handball) of childrens' teams extensively, and they know they had better mention almost every player by namein the article or at least the photo caption. Young parents will subscribe to the paper for that reason alone.
    - ghaff 8y ago
      Exactly. Think of it almost like advertising. Local newspapers mostly don't run routine local sports because they like to or think there's any great societal value in it but because it helps to pay the bills--in this case through subscriptions they otherwise wouldn't have. At the end of the day, it's the coverage of government and related things that directly affect the lives of the citizens. Human interest etc. is nice but it's optional (and is relatively easy in any case).
lev99 8y ago
Surely game scores are posted in a highschool bulletin, or a team could have a twitter/facebook/Instagram account to announce scores/highlights.
- jrnichols 8y ago
  at least in Texas, a lot of the high school scores are all wrapped up in MaxPreps.com
- heartbreak 8y ago
  There are a couple of sites competing in the space to be the crowdsourced local sports scoreboard. MaxPreps, CoachT, etc.

marcolussetti 8y ago

Is that necessarily a bad thing though? It would seem to me (non-American) that high school sports news would at most of interest to the parents of those playing, so it doesn't seem feasible for it to obtain wide coverage. Thinking back to my hometown's newspaper, I don't think it ever covered high school sports, only professional sports.

stordoff 8y ago
I plays sports through the UK equivalent of high school, and it never occurred to me that it would get any kind of media coverage. Even village-level sports rarely got more than a passing mention (if that) in the local paper. If that is currently happening in America, it doesn't seem like a huge loss.
- Tomte 8y ago
  Where I'm living the local newspaper covers sports (mostly soccer and handball) of childrens' teams extensively, and they know they had better mention almost every player by namein the article or at least the photo caption. Young parents will subscribe to the paper for that reason alone.
  - ghaff 8y ago
    Exactly. Think of it almost like advertising. Local newspapers mostly don't run routine local sports because they like to or think there's any great societal value in it but because it helps to pay the bills--in this case through subscriptions they otherwise wouldn't have. At the end of the day, it's the coverage of government and related things that directly affect the lives of the citizens. Human interest etc. is nice but it's optional (and is relatively easy in any case).

lev99 8y ago

Surely game scores are posted in a highschool bulletin, or a team could have a twitter/facebook/Instagram account to announce scores/highlights.

jrnichols 8y ago
at least in Texas, a lot of the high school scores are all wrapped up in MaxPreps.com
heartbreak 8y ago
There are a couple of sites competing in the space to be the crowdsourced local sports scoreboard. MaxPreps, CoachT, etc.