Terry Foster: The Missing Sports Section
The Detroit News changed its look at Detnews.com and it struck me how much smarter we are on the web than the actual newspaper.
Amongst the "regular" news of the day on the main page were sports stories about Michigan State losing a key recruit to Ohio State. There was a Lions story and a column about Rip Hamilton and his worth to the Pistons. Sports is a driving force for news organizations. People love sports. They hate sports. But they pay attention to sports.
Sports stories make the front page of the newspaper more often but back in the dark ages of newspapers sports was considered toys and games and editors believed it did not belong with real news. They were wrong.
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