Peculiar coverage in newspaper

[MU Avenue]

I am not a basher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In fact, I like the newspaper and think it does a pretty fine job of covering the city and state and providing thorough coverage of national and world matters.

That said, the story and headline on Marquette's victory over Jacksonville are bizarre.

The headline: "Free-throw advantage helps Golden Eagles to easy win"

The story: www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/134643163.html

Marquette went 17-29 (58.6 percent) from the free-throw line in a game that saw MU win by 32 points. Free-throw shooting -- whether good or poor -- was hardly the determining factor in this game, yet the story focused largely on foul shooting.

Marquette has been shooting pretty well this season from the free-throw line. The Jacksonville game saw that success slip a bit, but to make that the focus of the game story -- and, thus, the headline -- seems really odd at best and completely mistargeted.

Deadline writing is hugely challenging, I know, but it seems the reporter chose to make his story about free-throw shooting when that was hardly the story.

Weird.

[MARQTTE]

I'm sure that the JS was referring to the fact that MU got to the line over three times more than the opponent and that we scored 12 more pts from the charity stripe.  But I get your pt that we did not make as many as we should. 

[96warrior]

That is odd, particularly since every other sentence out of Mac and the other announcer (Dennis?) during the game was how much we were sucking at free throws. "MU with a 9 point advantage...would be twice that if they hit their free throws"