[QUOTE=sf49er;142436]Sorensonās article makes me very HAPPY I do not, and will not subsribe to that piece of crap paper called the Observer.
This comes up every year, please just do not read the crap, get your news /sports elsewhere.[/QUOTE]
How could you write such horrible comments about the ādisturberā and its fine writers? After all, itās our ālocalā newspaper. Shame on you SF49er.
I liked David Scottās article.
Sorensenās was typical Sorensen. Itās his style, and he does the same thing to other programs. He is more of a journalist than a reporter, so it is sort of his job to piss people off. A lot of te stuff he said was true, but he just comes at you from a different angle with it to make you think.
Oh no. Now, Iāve defended the Observer.
[QUOTE=Over40NINER;142594]I liked David Scottās article.
Sorensenās was typical Sorensen. Itās his style, and he does the same thing to other programs. He is more of a journalist than a reporter, so it is sort of his job to piss people off. A lot of te stuff he said was true, but he just comes at you from a different angle with it to make you think.
Oh no. Now, Iāve defended the Observer.[/QUOTE]
So, the disturber got your 25 cents this morning?
[QUOTE=Niner89;142596]So, the disturber got your 25 cents this morning?[/QUOTE]
I make a point to buy an observer or 2 [B]every single time[/B] there is an article about the niners - but not this time. I have no problem with tough articles when centered around truth but there is an obvious bias in that article and it wasnāt worth a freaking quarter. If Davidson did everything right and we did everything wrong then how did they lose? Are wide open dunks and 2 ft hook shots no longer easy shots? āThis season, fans respond with oohs and aahs when a guard hits from 12 feet.ā. We shot 45% from behind the 3pt line you [B]IDIOT[/B]. Donāt mind the Withers line - truthful. Donāt mind the A10 insult - truthful. Give Davidson credit - fine, but give the team that won some credit too.
Apparently there is good journalism, there is decent journalism and there are articles written by Sorensenā¦
[B]David Scottās article is excellent!! HAHA!!!
[/B] [B]Goldwire leads 49ers in thriller[/B]
āGetting another strong rebounding performance, the 49ers won the Hornetās Nest Trophy with an electric 85-81 double-overtime victory before a raucous crowd of 7,331 at Halton Arena.ā
āIt kind of reminded me of Oklahoma-Oklahoma State,ā said Charlotte forward DeāAngelo Alexander (18 points, 11 rebounds), a Sooners transfer. āSometimes my ears were hurting out there it was so loud.ā
[B]"[/B]Davidson jumps into Southern Conference play Saturday at Appalachian State. With the noise from the arena still ringing in his ears, McKillop said, āThis is one we will get better from.ā
I love this guy!!!
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Link[/B][B]: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/colleges/13297721.htm?source=rss&channel=charlotte_university_of_north_carolina_charlotte
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[QUOTE=Niner89;142596]So, the disturber got your 25 cents this morning?[/QUOTE]
I usually buy the Observer if there a Niner article in it.
Scottās article was great and conveyed the intensity level of the game.
Sorensenās was typical of his style. He still doesnāt like us, but thereās not many programs he does like. He has been much more critical at times in the past, but there was still too much BS. It looked like we were the main story today, so I have no major complaints.
Think of Sorensen as an intelligent Packman with a keyboard.
Think of Sorensen as an intelligent Packman with a keyboard.
me and the guys i work with in our set of 4 cubes listen to 1660 almost all day everyday. Packman really hasnt downed us this year, says were fine, says we are overrated but, i think we all can agree with that. Sorenson was on there yesterday, that guy is a jackass.
My problem with Sorensonās article is he made it sounds like we won because we cheated the noble wildcats out of their deserved victory.
What BULL!
[QUOTE=Over40NINER;142616] Think of Sorensen as an intelligent Packman with a keyboard.[/QUOTE]
How intelligent can he be if he flunked out of the University of Minnesota?
Allow me to commiserate a bit and then Iāll leave your forum once and for all. For the record, I like Sorensonās opinion columns generally. He certainly is much better than Ron Greene, for crying out loud.
But after the Observer ignored Davidsonās run in the NIT and printed only an AP blurb on the win over SW Missouri last year, I wrote to complain.
Tom,
I used to live in Charlotte, and I have enjoyed your writing for years. I
regularly check the Observer for sports news, especially during NFL season.
So, when I was in Charlotte this weekend, I thought that I might be able to catch some great coverage of Davidson basketball from the Observer. After all, Davidson had just won its second straight away game in the NIT in dominating fashion, and was 15-30 from beyond the arc. This is a team on a mission to prove they belonged in the NCAA and their one loss was a fluke.
The team boast a junior shooting guard who was the only non-ACC player on the District 3 All America team. What great copy that will make. What a
story.
So imagine my surprise when I sat down for breakfast Sunday morning, depressed over the Deaconsā loss, but excited to read about what was clearly a remarkable performance by Brendan Winters, and all I get is a four paragraph AP article from the Springfield News Leader that focuses almost entirely on Southwest Missouri Stateās players.
Could you not spare the change to have one of your writers sit and listen to the game on the internet? Was there no room on the plane the team took to Missouri? Perhaps someone could have actually called Bob McKillop or the Davidson Sports Information office and gotten a quote about the win. Anything. But no, it was more important to read three different writersā perspectives on a completely predictable Carolina romp.
There are two Division I basketball programs in Mecklenburg County. One of them is still playing basketball. It would be nice if the local paper
covered it from time to time.
Hereās how he responded a week later after the Wildcats lost to Maryland in a very good game:
we sent a writer to maryland with davidson, and if the wildcats had hung onto their lead, i would have made the drive from austin, where i had gone with duke, to cover the davidson-tcu game. there would have been two ofus. it's unethical to fly on team planes. even if we pay, it's tantamount to accepting a favor. we cant owe.
lastly, we ran a huge story about mckillop before the southern conference tournament. iāll be candid. there is little interest in davidson. davidson does not play louisville or cincinnati and rarely sells out its arena. and as little interest as there is in davidson, there is even less in the NIT.
there are more appalachian state grads in charlotte than davidson grads. yet, we cover davidson more extensively than asu. winthrop is an accomplished basketball program equisdistant with davidson from charlotte. yet, we cover davidson more extensively than winthrop.
because of the schoolās tradition, we probably give them more coverage than interest in the team would dictate. about carolina: thereās no way to fight the fact that there is more interest in the tar heels than in any other school in the state. and itās not close. we dont dictate tastes. we merely reflect them.
thanks.
tom sorensen
Now, the point about Winthrop is crap, since they do cover Winthrop as much as they cover Davidson, which is almost never. And Winthrop has about 4 years of being āaccomplishedā as opposed to Davidsonās 100 years of basketball and deep roots in the Charlotte Community. Yes they did run a nice piece on McKillop, which one might expect when a guy becomes the winningest coach in the history of the nationās second-oldest basketball conference. But come on. Most of the time, they canāt be bothered to send someone up I-77 to watch a game.
And the point about āreflecting tastesā is complete hogwash. Last time I checked, The Observer was published in Mecklenburg County, not Chapel Hill. Seems to me covering your area would ādictateā giving a few column inches to a local Division I school with a pretty damn good ballclub. Both of them.
Enough of my soapbox.
Good luck this year. Weāll beat the Tar Holes, and then even the 9er fans can cheer for us.
-Wildcat92
[QUOTE=Wildcat92;142708]And the point about āreflecting tastesā is complete hogwash. Last time I checked, The Observer was published in Mecklenburg County, not Chapel Hill. Seems to me covering your area would ādictateā giving a few column inches to a local Division I school with a pretty damn good ballclub. Both of them.[/QUOTE]
Wildcat92 sounds like a clone of Over40NINER? :scared:
[SIZE=1]That is a backhanded compliment, 92![/SIZE]
What an ass!
Yeah, I liked the part about Wintrop too. The guyās a total joke.
Good luck the rest of the way, Wildcat. Iām sure weāll both be cheering each otherās schools. Beware if we meet in the Tournament 
'92, now you know why Charlotte is the worst sports town in the country, bar none.
Wildcat92, let me say that you are welcome to stay on this board as long as you like.
[QUOTE=NinerLoudNProud;142725]'92, now you know why Charlotte is the worst sports town in the country, bar none.[/QUOTE]
That pretty much sums it up.
survivor,
greatest.
signature.
ever.
[QUOTE=HP49er;142709]
Wildcat92 sounds like a clone of Over40NINER?
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Wildcat, thatās one of the greatest honors you could ever have bestowed upon you.
Thatās the same as being an All-American in football or basketball, or the same as being an honor student at Harvard, or finishing 7 under par at Pinehurst, or winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tom Sorenson is a complete idiot!
He is obviously a horrible writer. His exact argument is completely wrong. What he is saying about how teams will be different in January is completely true, but he was sort of on the backwards end. I think we are progressing from early season jitters and players like Leemire are adjusting and Withers will be there, just had a bad game and got some BAD calls against him.
To say we will have to scrap and grind the whole season is completely ludacris. I think it is a testament to how our players are progressing and gelling.
Sorenson sounds like he did the same thing you did 92, listen to the game or probably not even that. He probably just looke at the BoxScore and read the article that was being put in the observer. Iām not saying that Davidson is not going to progress throughout the season, but I donāt think Winters can do that much better, but I know Johnson has the ability too. Yea and hopefully Sander can step up for you guys too, because Meno sucks bad. And what is that bs about one of the defenders being from France, what an ass. Is he trying to insult Withers with that BS? I know another player from France that I have watched in person school players and I see him playing good D and that is Tony Parker. If I was the Observer I would tell Tom to stop being a dumbass and quit being so wrong.
And lastyly, what a cheap-shot comment at the end about getting withers more rebounds than he has foul. WOW that has happend 1 time this season. I canāt remember one player that was a star on his team and didnāt have an off nite. How about this Sorenson, yea Withers did have a bad game, but Iām still pointing to the SCOREBOARD.