Oregon Media Insiders

What do you mean with the comment "the 'O' obviously doesn't care much about high school sports' " You suggest they have just two stories a week by the prep writers. That's simply not the case. There are game stories (football is played once a week, wait for basketball coverage) notebooks and features, along with a centerpiece story every Tuesday. Is the Tuesday piece the "lame-ass feature accompanied by a practice photo" you refer to? Different stories appear in different zones. Why? Because people actually do care about high school sports. Especially about high schools in their area, which is why some coverage is zoned.
And smaller papers do a very good job with prep sports, boys and girls. Why? Because people actually do care about high school sports. Those staffs keep stats, write stories, take pictures, do the layout -- pretty brutal schedule.
The questions are good, the opinion is valid. Just trying to shed some light on the subject.