Taking Issue with the Trib and Sun Times
In the wake of the Mark Wilson victory, I felt the need this morning to look through the scoreboard in the sports page to see how he was doing this week in Tampa. I grabbed both papers in the Starbuck’s and glanced at the scoreboard thinking that his name, along with other Chicago connected golf pros, would be in a boldface font for easy recognition. Not so for either of our city-based papers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.
I don’t get this. In the past 24 months I’ve had occasion to read the print versions of the Palm Beach Post, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Denver Post. Each of them puts local players in boldface font in the print editions. Is that too much to expect? Maybe it is. If I have any readers in other cities let me know if your local folks are highlighted somehow in the scoreboard. Maybe I’m nuts and nobody is doing this anymore.
Where is everybody on this issue? Should I organize a write-in campaign to get the names of players like Luke Donald, Jeff Sluman, Steve Stricker, and Mark Wilson in boldface? Or am I just a whiny baby with too much time on my hands?