Oregon Media Insiders

It's a long way from being comprehensive, but it does focus on prep sports. Gonna improve dramatically in a short time, too.

Dwight Jaynes, who never has a good word for women's sports, nor for soccer, couldn't bring himself to acknowledge the national champion Pilots, but dwelled lovingly on Lincoln HS football and his goofy, mostly dead crusade to see a major league baseball team come to Portland. At least he's consistent. As in consistently clueless.

First, with the reclassification in high school sports will the coverage remain to the biggest class only? The current 4A gets almost all the attention these days. Will the same be true for the new 6A?

Local newspapers seem to do the best in terms of high school coverage. The O has to pick and choose, especially with football. There’s only so many tv cameras in town so only the big games get covered. But, after a while there’s so much local town coverage that it looses it’s novelty to the kids when it’s the same star athlete every week.

The O won’t cover anything non-OSAA, so there’s never any Lacrosse, Water Polo or Ski coverage.

And what about those O prep writers? Do they do anything else but write maybe two stories a week?

The new thing I noticed a few weeks ago is what some kids at Lake Oswego are doing (www.lakerbroadcasting.com). They get their school online and do a fairly good job.

Thanks to the couple of you that posted, but I've got to say I was hoping for more.
More opinions about more different sources -- is one of the TV high school football shows better than others (or less cheesy?)? Or does one of those stations actually cover (gasp!) girls sports on a regular basis?
Does anyone actually read the weeklies and twice-weeklies that really cover high schools on a regular basis, and if you do, are any of them better than others? Is there something there that another newspaper might learn from and use to actually improve?
As to your above posts, thanks again. I've been to oregonsports.com, and while you're right about it focusing on local high school sports -- good for them on that front -- its stories are, well, kind of weird in their presentation and riddled with typos (not to mention the occasional factual error), but go see for yourselves and say what you think.
As for Dwight Jaynes, I agree with the cluelessness about the Pilots but don't have a problem with him talking high school sports once in a while, though I bet it's been the better part of a decade (if not two) since he's been to a high school game.
And finally, on the 'O', yes they have to pick and choose what they cover because of the wide net they cast, but let's get real -- the 'O' obviously doesn't care much about high school sports. And maybe they shouldn't, what with being the highest circulation daily in the Northwest -- they've obviously got bigger fish to fry. But even at that, boy do they ever not try very hard. I mean, two stories per week by their prep writers? I don't think so. Maybe during the heaviest weeks of playoff time (and maybe not, too), but during the regular season it's "Let's avoid all games and write one lame-ass feature a week accompanied by a practice photo" and some briefs.
Or maybe that's just my opinion.
Let's hear what you think.

give a rat's ass about high school sports unless you had a kid in high school?
and did i read word one about the PSU Women's soccer team? no.
when the word provincial was invented, they were talking about pdx.

"snark" It's fun to watch people bitch when they don't have a clue what they're talking about... like they don't know the difference between UP and PSU. "snark"