How was Paterno coverage played in your area?

The 'YOUR AD HERE Times' had 1A centerpiece with wire news story.
Sports centerpiece built around 2 staff columns. Inside staff story on potential legal issues ahead for Paterno (similar to SI.com's excellent piece yesterday).
Haven't seen what Tampa Bay's other paper did.

 

Took it on our front the first two days, then news wanted it, only because our competitor had centerpieced with it the last two days. Fine with me ... was up to here with volleyball and water polo playoffs and the first round of early signing day stories.

I think I'm more comfortable with the newsies having it. I keep thinking of some kid who's 9-11, about the same age I was when I started reading the sports pages seriously, reading some of the stories, looking up and asking, "Mommy, what were the man and the boy doing in the shower?"

 

We're 2,000 miles from Pennsylvania, and had been chock full of local (including another major college coach getting the heave-ho the other day), so we hadn't been running it front page. Inside, with a refer on the sports cover, mostly. And, of course, our stories are all the AP stuff.
Today, things slowed down on the local front so we played it up big. Basically the top half of the sports cover.
I was amazed, however, at the local TV news. The breaking news of the firing led all of their 10 p.m. broadcasts last night. Not sports, mind you, but the top of the show.

 

Toronto is not exactly a hotbed of college football - either Canadian or US (RIP International Bowl) - although there are plenty of Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State fans up here (and at least one who stands by The U) but the Toronto Sun sports section had Paterno's pic on the front page and a column much deeper inside.

 

1A and the cover of sports.

 

We just had statewide elections this week, so News has had no interest in it. Sports stripped it across the top of the front page of the section with a fairly large banner hed and a photo on Wednesday.

We had two fairly substantial local stories that we were playing up in today's Sports section, and a planned big high school football playoff package on 1A. The Sports layout guy had the "Paterno Retires" story downpage on the Sports front with a photo, and I guess he decided he didn't want to re-do his front when the firings broke late. Had a long sidebar on Paterno and a who's-next story inside, both by AP. If it had been me, I'd have junked the Sports front layout (which was boring anyway) and played Paterno big. But it wasn't my call.

 

We almost never put sports on page 1.. It has to be locally HUGE for that happen. It was teased ourt front.
It was lead sports story, with a timeline.
Also, a column and a side bar reaction story from a couple of guys from our area who played for Paterno; both thought it was lynch mob Joepa was fired.

Sidenote:
Some older PSU fans and beat guys may remember; Sandusky was hired to coach at Marshall University circa 1974. He acepted the job, but backed out a day later, opting to remain at State College.

 

We played it above the fold.

 

Did you use wires?

 

No, we had a couple of editors hold it up there.

Ba-boom-boom.

 

For Thursday morning, we had the primary story stripped across the top of 1C, then on an inside ad page (we had 4 3/4 pages to our disposal, so a little extra space), we had three sidebars:

- Russo's story on Urban Meyer and the potential successors
- Russo's story on the other college scandals (CCNY, Baylor, etc.)
- Rusty Miller's story on player playing through the distractions