http://m.providencejournal.com/article/20160105/SPORTS/160109634/14022/NEWS
"Make no mistake, the Warriors deserved to win".
That headline isn't exactly flattering, but it is more flattering than that photo of Dunn that they used.
It was your standard home-town angle written by a standard home-town hack.
But the Friars can kiss that goodbye, after being upset by underdog Marquette, 65-64, before a disappointed crowd of 10,446 Tuesday night at the Dunk.
That certainly wasn't in the script.
When you're ranked eighth in the country, you're not supposed to lose at home to a Marquette team that came in 0-2 in the Big East, having lost by 20 points at home to Seton Hall, and then by 10 at Georgetown.
The Friars were supposed to win this one, no question.
Favored by 9 ... blah blah blah
He spent four paragraphs high in the article saying the same thing over and over.
"kiss that goodbye" -- mother of all cliches.
"upset by underdog" -- uh yeah, you're never upset by a favorite.
"wasn't in the script" -- cliche grande, and just another way to say, again, that the favorite lost to the underdog.
"Friars were supposed to win this one" -- ditto.
"Favored by 9" -- yeah, we get it. Friars favored, Warriors underdog.
And this is the columnist, who is supposed to be the "star" of the sports section. Ugh.
If I ever wrote a column like that, even on deadline, my editor would have figuratively thrown it back in my face and would have literally told me to rewrite it.
Bottom line: The columnist who covers PC performed even worse than PC did.
ProJo used to have a writer named Kevin who did great work covering Big East basketball. I wonder if he is another casualty of print journalism.
Quote from: keefe on January 06, 2016, 11:57:55 AM
ProJo used to have a writer named Kevin who did great work covering Big East basketball. I wonder if he is another casualty of print journalism.
Kevin McNamara still writes for the PJ, he had the byline of the actual game story not the editorial.
IIRC, we've lost to Providence twice since we joined the conference in 2005. We're down, but to beat them when they've rarely been higher's got to hurt...
Wrong thread.
Providence fan here. Congrats on the win last night. Great atmosphere and intensity.
The Providence sports page has basically 3 guys that write about the Friars, and each has been at the paper for probably like 30+ years.
- Kevin McNamara is the sensible pretty unbiased writer.
- Bill Reynolds does editorial opinion stuff, feel good stuff, sad sack stories... good guy but you could take a column of his from 1989, replace the names and dates, and just recycle it.
- Jim Donaldson is the local curmudgeon a-hole, the guy that sits at the end of the bar with a smug know-it-all grin-frown on and insults the bartender about the peanuts being low quality.
Good luck this year to MU!
Quote from: billyjack on January 06, 2016, 12:56:04 PM
Providence fan here. Congrats on the win last night. Great atmosphere and intensity.
The Providence sports page has basically 3 guys that write about the Friars, and each has been at the paper for probably like 30+ years.
- Kevin McNamara is the sensible pretty unbiased writer.
- Bill Reynolds does editorial opinion stuff, feel good stuff, sad sack stories... good guy but you could take a column of his from 1989, replace the names and dates, and just recycle it.
- Jim Donaldson is the local curmudgeon a-hole, the guy that sits at the end of the bar with a smug know-it-all grin-frown on and insults the bartender about the peanuts being low quality.
Good luck this year to MU!
Thanks for the perspective.
It's OK to be a curmudgeon a-hole if you also write well. When you're an a-hole who writes like that ... wow!
Quote from: billyjack on January 06, 2016, 12:56:04 PM
Providence fan here. Congrats on the win last night. Great atmosphere and intensity.
The Providence sports page has basically 3 guys that write about the Friars, and each has been at the paper for probably like 30+ years.
- Kevin McNamara is the sensible pretty unbiased writer.
- Bill Reynolds does editorial opinion stuff, feel good stuff, sad sack stories... good guy but you could take a column of his from 1989, replace the names and dates, and just recycle it.
- Jim Donaldson is the local curmudgeon a-hole, the guy that sits at the end of the bar with a smug know-it-all grin-frown on and insults the bartender about the peanuts being low quality.
Good luck this year to MU!
What??? Scoop allows fans from other schools to post here? How utterly un-Dayton like. I guess we can kiss that Atlantic 10 bid goodbye.
Quote from: billyjack on January 06, 2016, 12:56:04 PM
Providence fan here. Congrats on the win last night. Great atmosphere and intensity.
The Providence sports page has basically 3 guys that write about the Friars, and each has been at the paper for probably like 30+ years.
- Kevin McNamara is the sensible pretty unbiased writer.
- Bill Reynolds does editorial opinion stuff, feel good stuff, sad sack stories... good guy but you could take a column of his from 1989, replace the names and dates, and just recycle it.
- Jim Donaldson is the local curmudgeon a-hole, the guy that sits at the end of the bar with a smug know-it-all grin-frown on and insults the bartender about the peanuts being low quality.
Good luck this year to MU!
Welcome to Scoop. Hope you stick around a bit. I like perspective from fans of other teams.
Congrats on the year PC is having.
Here's McNamara's article.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20160105/SPORTS/160109643/SHARED/st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/icZAWhhesQ
You could read that and have a great idea of how the game went. "Just the facts ma'am."
Quote from: T-Bone on January 07, 2016, 10:50:47 AM
Here's McNamara's article.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20160105/SPORTS/160109643/SHARED/st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/icZAWhhesQ
You could read that and have a great idea of how the game went. "Just the facts ma'am."
Agree. Good write-up.
It must be nice to have a hometown paper where 3 different sports writers will write about your college team.
Quote from: Coleman on January 07, 2016, 11:05:48 AM
It must be nice to have a hometown paper where 3 different sports writers will write about your college team.
At least we have a good one that writes the volume of three. Really does, I don't normally keep up with him.