DMN: Unbeaten TCU undeniably best in unimpressive football state

[TopFrog]

DMN: Unbeaten TCU undeniably best in unimpressive football state

Column by KEVIN SHERRINGTON / The Dallas Morning News
ksherrington@dallasnews.com

In Utah, life is apparently so bliss that the minds of public officials wander. The Beehive State's attorney general met this week with Justice Department types to argue that the BCS is an "illegal monopoly." Next thing you know, he'll sue the Yankees for overspending.

Mark Shurtleff makes the case that it's "impossible" for a school from a league outside the BCS realm to play for a national title.

"There is no scenario whatsoever where it can happen under the current regime," the Utah AG told reporters.

"It cannot happen."

Guess it renders today's little dust-up in Salt Lake City moot, huh? ...

 

[horseman903]

Typical faint praise from the Dreary Mourning News, which is no friend to TCU (or anything else west of Arlington.)

Wonder if the Daily Disappointment will actually send a reporter to SLC? They'll send two or three writers to the Agro-American game, two or three to the TU game and a half dozen to the Mitey Baylor Bare game. They'll send high school writers to cover SMU and North Texas.

They usually rely on borrowed coverage from Star-Telegram writers to cover TCU sports.

If The New York Times can cover Army, Princeton, Syracuse, UCLA, TCU, Oregon and Rutgers, one would think the Dallas paper could provide routine first-hand coverage of top-rated college football and baseball teams in its own metro area.

Check the by-lines in tomorrow's story about TCU-Utah. If they run true-to-form, Stefan Stevenson, Mac and/or Jennifer Engel and AP will dominate. None of them are Dallas News staffers. (Actually they will likely send a writer to The Game. Even the News can't ignore the import of this contest.)


But, the News' coverage of TCU is usually petty and second-hand -- and it's obviously deliberate.

 

[horseman903]

I was mistaken. Apparently the Dallas Mourning News did not send a reporter to Salt Lake City. Their first on-line story is from wire services. They may pick up stringer reports overnight from some Fort Worth Star-Telegram writers.

 

[Frogo]

One might say, D(a)MNed with faint praise.