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Box in the scores

I just realized this morning how much time it now takes to find a box score in the sports section of the news paper now. As I was searching through the Bradenton and St. Pete papers today for a high school football box score, I realized something...the sports pages of all of the places I have lived since I left NY suck. It's absolutely impossible to find box scores for games in any of them. Back in the day, the NY papers we read - the Poughkeepsie Journal and the Daily Freeman in Kingston made it simple...you open up the front page of the sports section and right inside was an entire page dedicated to box scores...high school, college, pro - whatever it was, it was there.

Now, in order to find box scores, you have to search the sports section far and wide to figure out who scored each touch down or served penalty minutes. It's like "Where's Waldo?" only without the red and white stripes to make it easy to find it. Sometimes the box scores are hidden in articles. Sometimes they are filling space between an ad and an article. Sometimes they are arranged according to sport. Sometimes by city. Sometimes by level of play. Sometimes they aren't organized. You have to flip through the entire sports section to find 1 box score.

To me, it's akin to how grocery stores lay out their products to make people walk through the entire store and impulse shop...bread is opposite milk which is nowhere near the deli or butcher. Seriously, once you have our 50 cents for the paper...does it matter if we look through the whole sports page or just get our box score?

And I never did find the box score I was looking for this morning. ***Sigh***

posted by Steph @ 4:35 AM