No coverage for CSU-CU
While you were focusing on CU basketball woes, meaningless spring football and the like, you and every other paper missed the best college sports story of the past few months.
The college lacrosse (U.S. Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates) national championships were held recently in Dallas. Included in the final 16 were Michigan, Arizona, Florida State, BYU, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, Sonoma State, Texas… and the CSU Rams and CU Buffaloes.
CSU was seeded No. 1 going into the tournament but was under great pressure to resurrect the program after being forced to withdraw from the tournament last year because of an eligibility problem with a player.
While CU has had mixed results in past years, it’s an up-and-coming program that had a very good season.
CSU had three hard-fought games but made it to the final by playing a flawless game against BYU in the semis. CU made the final by upsetting last year’s champion, UC Santa Barbara.
With seven minutes left in the fourth quarter of the final, CU had a 7-5 lead. But CSU fired up its game and scored three unanswered goals, including the game-winner with 1:30 left.
Both programs deserve better recognition and attention from the local sports reporters. Hats off to the Rams for their fourth national championship in the past eight years.
Jim Bowman, Boulder
Put Bonds in his place
It was very upsetting to view the placement of the article about Barry Bonds hitting homer 714. This not because it wasn’t inevitable, but because, to disagree with his words, he is not in the same class with Babe Ruth. Not first-page news. Something to be downplayed and buried in the sports section.
Hopefully future articles and sports books will dignify the company Bonds is keeping by putting an asterisk next to his tainted stats. For me and millions of other baseball fans, his number of home runs, lifetime and season, is, like him, a big fat zero. And shame on the media for heralding a cheat.
Brent Taylor, Aurora
It’s can’t-see TV
I am quite surprised that so little has been written and so few letters have been sent to The Denver Post regarding the NHL’s decision to cover the majority of the Stanley Cup playoffs on a channel that many of us do not have and cannot get without paying a premium.
After a strike and pandering to us fans with coverage on normal networks, now we are denied. They have accomplished one thing, however – making a lot of us NBA watchers!
L.W. Hunley, Grand Junction
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