He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

I miss Tom he was awesome

Always enjoyed his writing and I didn’t realize how good he was until he was gone.

(03-26-2021 01:01 PM)tigers18 Wrote:  He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

Barnes is an absolute joke and the reason I finally canceled my subscription to the CA. Lazy and unimaginative writing, sided with the “official” Liberty Bowl ticket count debacle (when the scanners didn’t work and they were easily under reporting attendance by 25%), no added value insight into the program, etc.

There’s a reason Schad has an upward trajectory - he put in the work, and didn’t just sit on Twitter all day chatting about music. Just sayin’

(03-26-2021 01:53 PM)tcountytigerfan Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 01:01 PM)tigers18 Wrote:  He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

Barnes is an absolute joke and the reason I finally canceled my subscription to the CA. Lazy and unimaginative writing, sided with the “official” Liberty Bowl ticket count debacle (when the scanners didn’t work and they were easily under reporting attendance by 25%), no added value insight into the program, etc.

There’s a reason Schad has an upward trajectory - he put in the work, and didn’t just sit on Twitter all day chatting about music. Just sayin’

I am sure back in the day they had more funding...

Less money less results.

good grief, Sister Jean is a 101 year old human being still interested in BB, coherent and still attending games.. WTF is wrong with that.
Who cares what god gods goddesses she prays to. Or even if she didn't pray....this human being is amazing

Access has been extremely limited regarding football. That said, I never rely on the CA for sports news anymore. Christian Fowler and Jonah Jordan are way more in the know.

(03-26-2021 02:20 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  good grief, Sister Jean is a 101 year old human being still interested in BB, coherent and still attending games.. WTF is wrong with that.
Who cares what god gods goddesses she prays to. Or even if she didn't pray....this human being is amazing

True, but shouldn't their be a limit on how much we talk about 103 year old nun in the sports world? And maybe a little bit more attention to the reason those guys are in Memphis earning a paycheck.

I have learned to appreciate George Lapides, God rest his soul, now that sports radio personalities have virtually no historical context to the meaning of sports to city, does no investigative work, and mostly completely ignores recruiting until somebody else scoops the story.

The CA has USA Today at the top and sometimes pages have the Jackson Sun across the top and more than half the stories are SEC and UT, Ole Miss, Bama, and MS State have equal billing for space. And everything is two days old. And yes I know a little about on-line subscriptions, duh.

Thank goodness we get something out of the Daily Memphian

There was a day we had three sports radio stations that at least tried to be Memphis centric without 10 in a row, music play lists, ranting and arguing about every little non sports related thing and selling the latest Vodka.

I don't expect the sports community to be only about Memphis Tigers but it should be mostly about us as the Home Town University/Team. I don't expect the sports community to only do sports stories but it should be mostly about sports.

I'm paying extra now for the Memphis Business Journal to even get new relevant and well researched business news for Memphis.

I'm done. You can have the site soap box back.

(03-26-2021 03:03 PM)Tigerx3 Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 02:20 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  good grief, Sister Jean is a 101 year old human being still interested in BB, coherent and still attending games.. WTF is wrong with that.
Who cares what god gods goddesses she prays to. Or even if she didn't pray....this human being is amazing

True, but shouldn't their be a limit on how much we talk about 103 year old nun in the sports world? And maybe a little bit more attention to the reason those guys are in Memphis earning a paycheck.

I have learned to appreciate George Lapides, God rest his soul, now that sports radio personalities have virtually no historical context to the meaning of sports to city, does no investigative work, and mostly completely ignores recruiting until somebody else scoops the story.

The CA has USA Today at the top and sometimes pages have the Jackson Sun across the top and more than half the stories are SEC and UT, Ole Miss, Bama, and MS State have equal billing for space. And everything is two days old. And yes I know a little about on-line subscriptions, duh.

Thank goodness we get something out of the Daily Memphian

There was a day we had three sports radio stations that at least tried to be Memphis centric without 10 in a row, music play lists, ranting and arguing about every little non sports related thing and selling the latest Vodka.

I don't expect the sports community to be only about Memphis Tigers but it should be mostly about us as the Home Town University/Team. I don't expect the sports community to only do sports stories but it should be mostly about sports.

I'm paying extra now for the Memphis Business Journal to even get new relevant and well researched business news for Memphis.

I'm done. You can have the site soap box back.

thank you. I'll be brief. Truthfully I have 0 say about Memphis Media or any media. I don't listen to talk radio, don't read the FB sports pages and don't go on Twitter, instagram etc... at all anymore, unless someone links it.. Plus CA, DM, new york times etc.... all cancelled.

Can't figure out why i used to care and people still care so much what any media pundit or news person says or thinks about Memphis or the Tigers. They don't care what we think. They just want our attention. lol

edit: As for your question that I just saw: why not! you can be the one who limits how much time should be spent on Sister Jean or anything that you and others don't like. It is irrelevant to me.

Ok..yielding the soap box back to you.

My wife and I go to the games

We get our information first hand

We see it right before our eyes , no filter or agenda

(03-26-2021 03:28 PM)Unionman76 Wrote:  My wife and I go to the games

We get our information first hand

We see it right before our eyes , no filter or agenda

You and your wife are my heroes! for real. Real attendees are the best source of news ever.

some substance and interesting info in its sports articles and I have always thought that Jeff Caulkins is a good columnist.

(03-26-2021 01:01 PM)tigers18 Wrote:  He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

He’s probably mad about Oral Roberts

(03-26-2021 04:28 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 01:01 PM)tigers18 Wrote:  He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

He’s probably mad about Oral Roberts

Gotta question the intelligence of a man that gets mad about Oral.

(03-26-2021 11:53 PM)BERT56 Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 04:28 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 01:01 PM)tigers18 Wrote:  He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

He’s probably mad about Oral Roberts

Gotta question the intelligence of a man that gets mad about Oral.

Well that is funny

Evan Barnes is a BLM type radical racist.

POS

Evan Barnes is a joke.

Barnes seems lazy.
And lazy folks in all walks of life have been more than content to exploit the pandemic to avoid doing quality work.

(03-26-2021 11:53 PM)BERT56 Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 04:28 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  [quote='tigers18' pid='17350271' dateline='1616781690']
He is the last decent beat writer we have had in either sport. I checked Evan Barnes twitter for football news today and he's bitching about Sister Jean's image being used to promote the NCAA tourney. What a joke.Media coverage aint what it used to be.

He’s probably mad about Oral Roberts

Gotta question the intelligence of a man that gets mad about Oral.
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(03-26-2021 04:28 PM)danny1 Wrote:  

The Commercial Appeal “Sports Section” is laughable. All the USA Today owned newspapers use the same template to write stories after college games and title the articles “5 Things We Learned.” It is such a lazy excuse for reporting/journalism. I will say that The Daily Memphian, at least, has

some substance and interesting info in its sports articles and I have always thought that Jeff Caulkins is a good columnist.

The daily memphian is no better as far as the beat goes both papers have adapted to just letting Christian Fowler break news from the 247 team and then just steal it