Comments on: Complaints about wrestling coverage http://www.ibabuzz.com/prepcorner/2006/01/13/complaints-about-wrestling-coverage/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:52:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Yousseff Abed http://www.ibabuzz.com/prepcorner/2006/01/13/complaints-about-wrestling-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Yousseff Abed Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:42:45 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/eastbayprepsports/2006/01/13/complaints-about-wrestling-coverage/#comment-46 I want to thank you for your coverage of the Lawrence Miller wrestling tournament, a fine article. More articles like this one would be fantastic. Now, I understand that you have limited resources and you must cover the mainstream sports, however if you looked at how your website is constructed you have every other sport broken out into their own general area except soccer is with lacrosse. Wrestling does not have an area. Also, in your paper you seem to be able to keep track of the league races in all of the other sports but you never report on wrestling races (box scores). I must admit that since Bill stopped covering wrestling two years ago we have seen an extreme drop in the wrestling coverage from your paper. I have started to report my results to the small local paper that is happy to get the articles and runs the results on a regular bias. Your suggestion about having assitance call in the results is a good one which I will take advantage of. However, please understand that we too we have limited resources and must decide how to get the best bang for our buck. One note on the California Newsletter, although it is a good resource for wrestling information it can be quite chatty and opinions are posted as information as you would expect on any forum type medium. Again, thank you for the article on the Lawrence Miller wrestling tournament and any additional coverage you can give the sport of wrestling is appreciated by these hard working kids.

Yousseff

]]> By: Al Fontes http://www.ibabuzz.com/prepcorner/2006/01/13/complaints-about-wrestling-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Al Fontes Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:53:31 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/eastbayprepsports/2006/01/13/complaints-about-wrestling-coverage/#comment-45 Although I agree with the editor about coaches not calling in results frequently, I think the Contra Coast Times needs to improve their coverage of the areas top wrestlers. For example, the Contra Costa area has several talented kids that are ranked in the state and nationally. Nikko Triggas (Campolindo) and Jason Welch (Las Lomas), each “Blue Chip” athletes are among the top ranked kids in the nation. Both Nikko and Jason have competed at three of the toughest tournaments in the country this year (Ironman in Ohio, Reno TOC, and Five Counties) and have done well at each. I think there should be more coverage about our kids that are among the elite in the nation.

Also, the California Wrestler.com is the state’s newsletter. This site receives over 3 million hits a month and is a great resource of California wrestling information.

http://www.thecaliforniawrestler.com

Dave, I appreciate all that you are doing for our sport in the area. Your coverage is well appreciate. I am here as a source of California wrestling and the national scene.

Al

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