Here’s your turn
OK, friends. Here’s your turn to say what you’d like to see in the paper. We’ve been given an assignment by our sports editor: 50 major story ideas we should do in the next six months and 10 things to improve our sports section.
Mike Baldwin and myself leave today driving to Des Moines, Iowa, for the OSU women’s regional, and we’re going to take that time to brainstorm. But we would like your ideas, too.
High school, college, NBA, doesn’t matter. Anything that interests you, give us some ideas. The more specific, the better. So while I’ll take a look at something like “More NASCAR coverage,” something like “How NASCAR fans support the sponsors of their favorite teams” is much better. Or instead of “more wrestling coverage,” something like “How weight pulling has been made easier by the higher weight classifications.”
I promise we’ll consider any reasonable idea.
Just email me at btramel@oklahoman.com. I’d prefer that to posting on the blog, although you certainly can do that, too.
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Comments
Ideas:
Why can’t OU win big bowl games anymore?
Have OSU fans always been insane, or did Jenni Carlson telling the truth about Bobby Reid drive them that way?
Is the Tulsa arena too little too late?
How will Oklahoma Cityans feel if/when the Sonics leave?
Why can’t or won’t Joe Castiglione develop a plan to get maximum student attendance at OU men’s basketball games?
When will Oklahoma State University change its name to Boone Pickens State University?
What would the Tulsa football program have to do to get some coverage in the Oklahoman?
Jenni Carlson’s column about Bobby Reid was 75% false and everyone there knows that, including Jenni, but are “TOO STUPID” to figure that out.
I’m not sure how your business works, but I’ve always assumed The Oklahoman has a thin sports section so it can save money on paper.
In this day of technology you’d think grabbing stories off the wire would be a click away. Does The Oklahoman have to pay a source to print these articles?
A few years ago The Oklahoman paid some consultant to improve the layout and guidelines for content to improve the paper. I was hoping we’d get a taste for what happens around the nation or around the world.
It feels we Oklahomans are kept in the dark! I’d like to see stories from all over the country about every type of sport. They don’t have to consume an entire page, but a few paragraphs here and there might will add interest to the Sports section overall. They don’t have to be related to Oklahoma, but important to the respective sport they are written about. It will open our eyes and enlighten us as readers and sports fans.
I’m sure the response from above will have the words “cost” and “production” but you asked us what we wanted to see in the paper. Please give the current and potential subscribers more variety and more national coverage!
here’s my idea for a story: with all the stuff going on in oklahoma, why does the sports editor need readers to generate story ideas for him? perhaps less time spent flushing money away on goofy web video crap, less time with features about kids who like country music or used to wear braces (or other silly stories) and more attention given to news would solve everyone’s woes.