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Thursday, December 08, 2005
Morning readaround
It's Big Time Kyle, who looks a whole lot like smalltime Kyle, but gets paid better, filing a report on the Bucknell-Villanova game for the WWLIS. So what if ESPN didn't post the damned thing until 6 o'clock last night? Be glad they are not making you pay for it.

Also checking in with an aftermath column is Tom Housenick, the Bucknell beat writer for the Daily Item. Tom mentions:
At least 60 media credentials were issued for that night’s basketball game, from the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer to the several regional newspapers suddenly on the Bison bandwagon. In all, more credentials were issued for this men’s contest than are generally given for the Patriot League postseason tournament.
Which begs the question: How many of those 60 were there to actually cover the game? Because we counted about a dozen folks at the postgame press conference. Of course that number includes the crew for ESPN 360, a camera man and talking head for the Scranton TV stations who needed a campus map to find Sojka. Then there were at least three dudes from the campus newspaper, which probably won't even publish another edition until spring semester.

Still, it was definitely more media than Bucknell is accustomed to having on hand and sports information guy Jon Terry and his staff did a fine job handling the horde. A special thanks too, for the BU IT folks who have made Sojka a wi-fi hotspot, enabling our live gameblogging experiement.

One other guy checking in today with a follow to the BU-VU game is Gordie Jones of the Morning Call. Imagine the love Lehigh fans down in the valley must feel this morning when they pick up their paper and find a column about Bucknell and no coverage of the Lehigh-Sacred Heart game.

In advance of the Colgate-Syracuse game, the Chones boys are all the rage in Salt City. There are stories about them in the Syracuse Post-Standard and the Daily Orange.

Here's what we found most interesting in the Post-Standard piece:
It paid off when they returned to the Red Raiders last January. They enrolled in school, redshirted the season and returned to practice. Although Kyle and Kendall were ecstatic to be back with the team, it was a hard adjustment to practice every day and then sit out of games.
We added the emphasis to the word "redshirted."

Did we miss something? When did the Patriot League start allowing non-medical redshirt years?

Here all along we figured the lack of a reaction to teh Joe Knight situation from anyone on the tundra was because there are no papers that cover Colgate. Maybe, though, it is the result of living in glass houses.
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