The Orange County Register Makes A Major Faux Pas by Not Covering the Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine steps toward the NCAA Big Dance.
By Allen Bacon
Editor
Bosco: The Blog
It seems to me that my home County newspaper, the Orange County Register forgot which county they serve this morning.
That's because for the first time in 30 years one of our Division 1 College basketball teams from Orange County will be appearing in the NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournaments...the Big Dance.
When Cal State Fullerton takes on UC Irvine in the Big West Tournament tonight in Anaheim at 8 PM PST (ESPN2 and Bosco Radio: The Sports Channel), up for grabs will be a slot in the NCAA tournament. An Orange County team hasn't been there since 1978 when Cinderella Fulllerton was a couple of freethrows and layups short of getting to the final four.
So how does my beloved OC Register do on their front page of the sports section this morning. What was the lead sports story? UCLA beating USC in another county in the Pac 10 tourney. The stories about the UC Irvine and CS Fullerton wins were buried in the middle of the section. That's just wrong. Even our local high school Mater Dei who by the way won the State High School Basketball championship last night was regulated to the very bottom of the front page.
If I'm sports editor of the OC Register, my sports page looks like the following this morning... Side by side huge photos and articles on the Titans beating Northridge and the Anteaters upsetting UC Santa Barbara. The next thing is Mater Dei winning the state high school championship with another photo...and at the bottom of the page I have a story about the Fullerton Junior college basketball team and their quarterfinal win in the State Community College playoffs.
If the Register isn't going to cover Orange County properly, I suggest a name change. The Los Angeles Register of Orange County
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