Star-Telegram No Longer Covering The Mavs
by Wes Cox on Jan 12, 2009 11:07 PM CST
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PrintThis has been public for quite a while, but it's been officially announced by the parties involved.
Beginning Feb. 1, The News will provide its beat coverage of the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Stars to the Star-Telegram.
In exchange, the Star-Telegram will share its Texas Rangers coverage with The News. The two will continue to cover the Dallas Cowboys separately.
In short, Jeff Caplan and Jan Hubbard will only be covering the Mavs for about three more weeks. While I was pretty upset when I first heard of this, most of that stemmed from Evan Grant no longer covering the Rangers. From a Mavs standpoint my feelings are a bit more muted. While I think Sefko and Caplan both did well, the fact is their article each morning were nearly identical. They thought the same, used the same quotes etc...
Still, as Mark Cuban pointed out a few weeks ago less coverage can only be a bad thing.
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It's a shame
Less coverage is almost never good. I always liked variety. I wonder what they’re going to do with Evan Grant though, his Rangers stuff was great.
Personally
..I don’t think either deserves to keep their job. Sefko is, in my opinion, a horrible beat writer who rarely ever brings anything of value.
I enjoyed that Cuban article, and really, if you think about it, dallasbasketball.com and Fish are kind of already the model that Cuban would like to see in the newspapers.
db.com
has better coverage than DMN and FWST combined.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Jan 13, 2009 9:47 AM CST up reply actions
so how much longer
until there isnt a newspaper… i need my sunday coupons!
"I may not be a class act, but I'm an American."
-- Ron Artest on wanting to play for the Olympic team
Man I wish it was flipped
So Grant could cover the Rangers and Sefko would no longer have free reign to annoy. I guess logistically it makes more sense for the FWST to cover Arlington, though.
by MeanMr.Mustard on Jan 13, 2009 11:36 AM CST reply actions
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