Fan speak 9/8/08

More national

I'D LIKE to comment about how biased the sports section of the newspaper is. One day you had the Dalhousie Junior Championship golf tournament and the sports section suddenly increased from four pages to six, with five strictly for the Dalhousie tournament. Yet when professional golfers are playing, we were lucky if we see golf scores for two of the four days. When the Olympics were going on, we were lucky if we saw the full medal table three days out of the whole thing. Now that football is coming along, it's going to be like in the past. Once the World Series arrives, we won't see much of that either because it will be strictly football. It seems to be the only thing that the sports section knows anything about or really follows. I'd like to see someone from the Sports department give a response.

(The sports department focuses its efforts on providing coverage of local teams and athletes that readers cannot get elsewhere. When a local high school team plays in a state tournament or a golf tournament comes to town, we're going to provide readers with unparalleled coverage, even it means national events get lesser billing. This will continue to be the case. We will continue to cover the local teams and athletes as they compete in all sports, from football and cross country to volleyball and soccer.)

No playoffs

THIS PERTAINS to the St. Louis Cardinals. They're the third-place team. They aren't going to beat the Milwaukee Brewers or the Chicago Cubs this year, so they're not going to make the playoffs. I just wanted to say that about the Cardinals.