Sports editors aim to deliver unique coverage

By By Erick Schmidt (Contact), Eric Sorrentino (Contact)

Monday, January 23, 2006

As sports editors, we want to establish an identity that you, the reader, can relate to this semester.

The Gameday page was a new feature during football season that provided readers with important players and statistics to watch for. This semester we will continue with that format for basketball to establish an identity for the sports page. The men’s basketball team will not be the only team included on the Gameday page, though. We plan to include big games for the women’s basketball team as well.

In keeping the Gameday page, we’d like to bring change to the sports page.

We’re working on game stories being more personal. We want you to read the stories and learn something new, whether you attended the games or not. We’d like to take you beyond the box scores and convey the actions and emotions of the games. Every game has key turning points that you just can’t get from reading the numbers.

Columns will be done differently this semester as well. For the first time in recent memory, the reader will know who will write columns on four days of the week.

You may not agree with all of the columns, but that’s why they’re written. We hope to make you think about the topic presented and formulate your own opinions.

Everything in the sports section will be well-researched, from the opinion columns to the sports feature stories. Our aim is to deliver news to the students with all the proper facts. We’re not perfect, though. To that effect, we encourage you to tell us what’s working and what’s not.

We’d also like to deliver sports action at the University in ways other than columns and game stories. This can be achieved with spotlights on athletes away from their game, from the most well-known faces to pickup game superheroes.

The renovation of Kansan.com will also add a new element to our sports coverage. Blogs, breaking stories and extended coverage will be featured on the new-and-improved Web site.

We hope that you will get involved and establish an identity with us, whether it’s by picking up the paper or checking out our content online. To let us know how we’re doing, feel free to stop by and talk to us. Or save yourself the steps and utilize the new online feature of posting comments to each article we publish. Either way, you’ll be helping us provide you with better sports coverage.

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