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What do you think would be chance that our great paper would not have a word about baseball if UT was starting their season tonight as the no. 1 team in the country?

be careful, Flare... there are quite a few Tennessean apologists around here.

But I agree with you 100%. If Tennessee was in the top 5 of every poll... you can bet there would be an article or three about them. Absolutely.

apologist here - late game and they were covering the funeral that had multiple mentions of Corbin and team playing away and winning national championship plus they have a nice podcast up featuring Corbin and the team. They will cover us - let's just hope we stay number 1. There is a 32 minute podcast so listen to it for excellent coverage:

vu2003rpl wrote:be careful, Flare... there are quite a few Tennessean apologists around here.

But I agree with you 100%. If Tennessee was in the top 5 of every poll... you can bet there would be an article or three about them. Absolutely.

A critic, not an apologist, but it should be noted one of the big reasons there would be articles about UUT is they would be written by writers for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. They still have multiple people dedicated to covering UUT sports, whereas The Tennessean has Adam Sparks, whose main assignment right now is covering the mens basketball team. The lack of coverage is less a byproduct of the paper's UUT bias, which of course is real, and more a byproduct of the economic realities of the newspaper business in which there aren't many people left on The Tennessean's staff. The paper's executive editor, Maria De Varenne, admitted this to me in a phone conversation a couple of years ago.